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Mobile Delivery App Brings Food Straight to Your Seat

by | Feb 4, 2020
iJustOrder's mobile engagement and e-commerce platform allows event attendees to place orders, make in-app payments, and get orders delivered directly to them.
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Meet the Future 50: North Texas Innovators and Disruptors You Need to Know
No matter which of our six buckets you look at—startup, enterprise, invention, education, innovation, or creative—you're sure to find leaders capable of disrupting industries, benefiting society, or changing the world.
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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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Dallas PropTech Dottid Raises $3.85M in Seed Funding Round
by | Jan 13, 2020
The startup also recently hired a former Toyota Connected engineer as its new CTO and completed a pilot program with a major Texas developer.
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Education Finance Solutions Provider Meritize Appoints New COO

by | Dec 12, 2019
Scott Rhode will focus on expanding the company's finance and credit operations as it scales its model concentrated on skills-based education.
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Booster Fuels Adds Vice President to Lead Its Brand Experience and Design Efforts
by | Dec 11, 2019
Founded in 2014 at AllianceTexas in Fort Worth, the startup has major financial backing from Dallas venture capital firm Perot Jain.
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This Dallas Startup Transforms Memories Into 3D Models
by | Dec 6, 2019
Shrink3d uses 3D scanning technology to convert a 360 photograph into a full color figurine. Now, it's opened its first pop-up shop in Frisco at Stonebriar Mall. 
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Kanarys Closes Pre-Seed Funding Round By Raising $1.5M
by | Nov 12, 2019
Co-founders Mandy Price and Star Carter join 50 other black women in the United States who have raised more than $1 million in funding.
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Fort Worth Razor Startup Gets $300K From ‘Shark Tank’

by | Nov 5, 2019
Longtime 'Sharks' Robert Herjavec and Kevin O’Leary went head-to-head to strike a deal with Supply, a shaving startup that says it has "perfected the classic single blade razor."
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‘It’s Not Complicated, It’s Tutoring’: Dallas Startup Takes a Holistic Approach to Education
by | Oct 9, 2019
Minority-owned INC Tutoring has found success in its holistic, prescriptive approach to education. The results? Students—mostly students of color—have earned 95 percent As and Bs in more than 48 subjects.
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Package Delivery Startup Fetch Raises $10.5M in Series A Funding
by | Sep 26, 2019
Fetch operates local warehouses, where it accepts all deliveries then provides scheduled, door-to-door service directly to apartment residents. The funding backs its national expansion. 
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North Texas Scientists Aim to Win a $50M (and Climbing) War on the Roses
by | Sep 14, 2019
A virus called Rose Rosette is wreaking havoc for the horticulture industry. Thanks to virus cloning, a team of scientists may have a solution.
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Look Ahead: Venture Dallas’ 2019 Conference Schedule

by | Sep 6, 2019
Next Tuesday and Wednesday, startups and investors will gather in Dallas to embark on a first-of-its-kind journey in our city: to connect with innovators, business luminaries, and investors from around the nation and showcase the things that make Dallas’ entrepreneurial landscape fertile.
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Tyler Station in Oak Cliff's Elmwood neighborhood attracts artists, craftsmen, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits
‘A Collaborative Village’: Artists, Makers, and Entrepreneurs Embrace Creative Collisions as Tyler Station Hits 100%
by | Sep 5, 2019
The mixed-use creative development in Oak Cliff was the brainchild of new urbanist pioneer Monte Anderson. As one tenant puts it: "I don’t know of anything like it in Dallas or really any other city.”
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Take a (Much) Closer Look at Digital Fight Club 2019 with DHD Films’ Gigapixel Photos
by | Aug 29, 2019
DHD Films is giving viewers a 360-degree tour of Digital Fight Club 2019 with DHD GIGA, a 4-billion-pixel capture that lets viewers get up close and personal with attendees.
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This New ‘One-Stop Shop for Homeowners’ Does Everything From Christmas Lights to Landscaping
by | Aug 14, 2019
Frisco-based Chorbie provides full-service, on-demand solutions that are more convenient for homeowners. We spoke with the CEO and co-founder to discuss his plans to become the go-to experts for adding value and comfort to a property in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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