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Batbox's upcoming Addison venue features a full bar and restaurant with baseball simulators where groups of up to 18 can play games, home run derbies, and pitching contests. [Image: BATBOX]
Batbox Scores Another $3M to Expand Its Topgolf-Style Baseball Beyond Restaurants
by Lance Murray | Aug 12, 2025
Batbox said this latest capital injection allowed it to secure full ownership of its core technology and IP, including key patents and software rights.
by Lance Murray |
Jan 28, 2025
Qsic recently announced a partnership with Irving-based 7-Eleven to roll out "Gulp Radio" in 12,000 stores by the end of 2025. The Australian company has an office in Dallas, where its co-founder and CEO is leading Qsic's North America business growth.
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by Lance Murray |
May 7, 2024
The Taiwanese cybersecurity company, whose U.S. HQ is in Irving, said that in addition to TGVest Capital—the lead investor of its B round—Pegatron Group, CDIB Capital Group, and CDIB-Innolux II LP are continuing to invest. New investors include the Taiwania Capital and Applied Ventures ITIC Innovation Fund LP, a joint fund of Applied Ventures, LLC and ITIC-Taiwan
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by Lance Murray |
May 25, 2023
Sera—a SaaS service for small-to-large size HVAC, plumbing, and other field service businesses—said it closed the oversubscribed funding round with a market cap three times the value the company had at the close of its Series A round in November 2021.
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Island Co-founder & CEO Mike Fey [Source images: Island; MKJ Photography/Island]
Dallas-Based Island Extends Series B Funding With $60M Investment for Its Desktop Disruptor—a Browser Built for Enterprise
by Lance Murray | Nov 14, 2022
Island, a Dallas-based unicorn that emerged from stealth last February, was valued at $1.3 billion in March. It continues to attract big investments for its Enterprise Browser, which protects companies' SaaS tools and internal web apps from data leaks with a long list of security features.
"Being able to further validate our valuation, even with the headwinds facing the broader market, is an honor,” Island CEO and co-founder Mike Fey said.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Jun 29, 2022
ReCode Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical startup using a non-viral lipid nanoparticle delivery platform for gene therapies, has closed a $120 million extension to a funding round it raised last year to help bring its lead programs to human trials and “follow the science” to target new diseases.
With a research team working out of BioLabs' life sciences facility at Pegasus Park, ReCode aims to grow its global team from about 70 to 100 over the next year.
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by Alex Edwards |
Oct 21, 2021
The funding, which was co-led by Pfizer Ventures and EcoR1 Capital, will help drive ReCode's therapy programs for primary ciliary dyskinesia and cystic fibrosis into human clinical studies.
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by Alex Edwards |
Jul 29, 2021
On the heels of its launch in the multifamily proptech and funeral home industries, OneDay is accelerating its footprint with an influx of capital that will go to new hires, market expansion, and continued tech development.
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Bestow CEO and Co-founder Melbourne O'Banion [Image: Courtesy Fort Lion Studio]
Dallas-Based Life Insurance Startup Bestow Lands $70 Million Series C
by Quincy Preston | Dec 16, 2020
The insurance innovator has raised $145 million in total funding to date as it readies for expansion. In 2020, Bestow has closed a $50M Series B round, launched a nonprofit, and acquired Centurion Life Insurance Company.
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by Alex Edwards |
Nov 9, 2020
Cellwize, which has operations in Israel, Dallas, and Singapore, is behind a cloud-native platform that helps operators deploy 5G networks in a more efficient, scalable, and flexible way.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 19, 2020
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition acitivity involving companies in North Texas, you'll also find news from StackPath, MedProperties, Naya Ventures, and Charter Health Care Group.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 17, 2020
The new funding will be used to accelerate StackPatch's burgeoning product development, engineering, and go-to-market activities. StackPath is a Dallas-based startup that provides secure edge computing resources.
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Follow the Money: Topgolf Preps for $4B IPO; Pieces Technologies Raises $25.7M Series B; ORIX Makes Acquisition
by Lance Murray | Jan 9, 2020
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Eyevensys, BoodsKapper, Trinity Hunt Partners, Dragon City Farms, Harvest Returns, The Guild, DealerSocket, Riveron, Paceline Private Equity Partners, and Graco.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 8, 2020
The startup plans to use the funding to continue developing its technology and to position it as an innovator in ophthalmology. Eyevensys’ tech is a gene therapy platform to deliver ocular drugs via an electrotransfection system to the ciliary muscle of the eye.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 7, 2020
The funding will accelerate the national distribution of Pieces’ clinical analytics engine and social determinants of health platform.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 29, 2019
In this weekly roundup of funding, mergers, and acquisition activity involving companies with North Texas ties, you’ll also find news from Automation Anywhere, Maverick Capital, Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade, SpotSee, and Novaria Group.
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