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Dallas Cybersecurity Company Elisity Agrees to $1.3B Acquisition by Quantum Computing Company IonQ

by | Oct 14, 2026
Founded in 2018, Elisity has raised $70.5 million in venture capital and logged 100-plus deployments. Its leadership team will stay in place after the deal closes.
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Texas Research Alliance Brings Its Applied Quantum Vision to the C-Suite
by | Aug 27, 2026
Leaders from TRA, IBM, ORCA Computing and IonQ will gather in Dallas for an interactive discussion on the business applications of quantum technologies.
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North Texas-Based Amera IoT Launches ‘Quantum-Proof’ Encryption Technology
by | Jan 8, 2026
"For decades, cybersecurity has been a race against ever-more powerful computers," says Amera IoT CTO Tony Valentino. "AmeraKey Encryption fundamentally changes that equation." With its solution in place, the company says, "there is nothing for a hacker to steal."
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Tech Mahindra Expands North Texas Presence With UT Dallas AI Partnership and Makers Lab
by | Dec 10, 2025
After opening its Americas HQ in Plano earlier this year, Tech Mahindra is now launching its first U.S. Makers Lab at its Plano facility through a new applied AI partnership with UT Dallas.
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14 Emerging Tech Trends for 2021—and Dallas-Area Companies That Are Innovating for the Future

From ABIA to Zyvex, Dallas-Fort Worth companies are at the forefront of innovations in AI, 5G, quantum computing, genomics, and more.
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SMU Awarded $1M in Research Grants to Advance Quantum-Related Cybersecurity
by | Dec 8, 2020
Anametric, an Austin-based company developing novel devices for chip-scale quantum photonics, gave the grants to SMU’s Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security with the long-term goal of building quantum computing devices.
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‘Math Will No Longer Protect Your Data’: VaultChain Wants to Make Data Impossible for Hackers to Reassemble
by | Apr 11, 2019
Encryption that would normally take millions of years to crack could be done in seconds with a quantum computer, according to Doug Peckover. His solution is a “quantum-computer safe” technology that secures data.
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Emerging Tech: Meet the Women Driving DARQ Power in Dallas
by | Apr 4, 2019
Hear from the women leading innovation in distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence, and extended reality (VR/AR), and quantum computing in North Texas.
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