Plano

CarOffer’s Used Car Bidding Platform Hits $60M in Monthly Sales

by | Feb 12, 2020
CarOffer, which says it's the retail automotive industry's first instant trade platform, has reached $60M in monthly sales within the startup's first six months.
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Vice President chief Caris Jacobs
DI People: Jacobs, Caris Life Sciences, Infogroup, and One Network Enterprises Make Leadership Moves
by | Feb 11, 2020
In this weekly roundup of leadership and executive moves by companies and organizations in North Texas, you’ll also find news from AspireHR, Rent-A-Center, Jones|Carter, and Kane Russell Coleman Logan.
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funding
Follow the Money: Shiftsmart Raises $16.3M, Alto Scores $6M, BG Staffing Makes $21.6M Acquisition
by | Feb 6, 2020
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger and acquisition activity in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Worlds, Tricolor, Puration, Atos, Kriya Capital, Kofile, and more.
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Karahan Legacy
International Developers: Meet Fehmi Karahan From Istanbul, Turkey
by | Jan 30, 2020
Karahan built one of North Texas' most-successful developments at Plano's Legacy West. Now he's working with Hunt Realty on the massive Fields development in Frisco.
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Plano Restaurant Tech Startup OneDine Raises $5M to Broaden App’s Reach

by | Jan 28, 2020
The funding, which puts OneDine's pre-money valuation at $90 million, is expected to bring the company's table-side ordering and payment solution to restaurants across the U.S.
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funding
Follow the Money: DoctorLogic Raises $7M; Geoforce, TPG Growth Make Acquisitions
by | Jan 23, 2020
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Match Group, On the Road Lending, Oakview Capital, Sales Benchmark Index, TPG Capital, Mark Cuban, P10 Holdings, Cloudvisory, Metro Energy Savers, and Trudela Partners.
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Stryve Announces Four Leadership Moves as the Plano Snack Company Ramps Up Growth
by | Jan 17, 2020
After previously doubling its annual revenue, Stryve is adding a co-CEO and three C-Suite executives to its team as it expects its sales to double once again in 2020.
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Follow the Money: Toyota Invests $394M in Air Taxi Maker, TestFit Nets $2M Seed Round, Transplace Makes Acquisition
by | Jan 16, 2020
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity, you’ll also find news from TestFit, Valify, Pharos Capital, EDSCO Fasteners, and Dottid.
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Toyota Unveils Intellectual Property Licensing Program

by | Dec 19, 2019
Toyota described the program as a way businesses can gain the benefits from a world-renowned R&D company that invests over $1 million per hour, "without actually having to spend $1 million per hour.”
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NTT Data Services
NTT Data to Acquire IT Services Company in Federal Healthcare Sector
by | Dec 18, 2019
The acquisition of NETE follows NTT Data’s deal earlier this month to acquire Austin-based cloud services provider Flux7.
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cities
North Texas Cities Among Nation’s Fastest-Growing
by | Dec 12, 2019
Frisco and McKinney were the highest ranking North Texas cities in the WalletHub report, which based its rankings on job growth, increase of full-time and part-time jobs, and median household income growth, among other factors.
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Toyota Motor North America CEO Jim Lentz to Retire in April
by | Dec 11, 2019
Lentz spent 38 years at Toyota, which included leading the North American headquarters move from California to Plano. Chief Operating Officer Tetsuo “Ted” Ogawa will succeed Lentz.
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Follow the Money: MacFarlan Raises $8.65M, MoneyGram Gets $20M, NTT Data Buys Austin IT Firm

by | Dec 5, 2019
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity involving companies in North Texas, you’ll also find news from RevTech, BARBRI Inc., McMillan Insurance Group, Liberty Trust Company, Emergent Cold, and Frito-Lay.
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NTT Data Flux7
NTT Data Services to Acquire Fast-Growing Austin-Based IT Firm
by | Dec 3, 2019
NTT Data says the acquisition will enhance what it delivers in Amazon Web Services, DevOps, and Agile development capabilities.
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Vice President
DI People: Elevate Credit, Devenney Group, Kimberly-Clark Make Leadership Moves
by | Nov 26, 2019
In this weekly roundup of executive and leadership moves involving companies in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Jones|Carter, SWK Holdings, Wingstop, the Michaels Companies, and more.
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TMGcore data centers
TMGcore Unveils its Transformative Data Center Platform—And it’s About the Size of an SUV
by | Nov 19, 2019
At Supercomputing 2019, the Plano-based provider of data center solutions gave a look at the OTTO platform, which has the potential to help clients cut operational costs by 80 percent. It's a tenth the size of a traditional data center. 
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