startup

LiveOak Venture Partners Closes $105M Fund for Investing in Texas Startups

by | Apr 9, 2019
The firm's partners have a strong track record of investing in Dallas-Fort Worth startups that dates back nearly 20 years.
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Alyce Alston: ‘Let’s Be Really Clear. The State of Entrepreneurship is Strong in DFW’
by | Apr 4, 2019
Also at the SOE19 event, The DEC announces a partnership with the North Texas Angel Network, Craig Hall remembers Herb Kelleher, Mike Rawlings looks at the city's history of innovation, Dumb Money talks success on YouTube, and the Dallas Startup Evangelist of the year is named.
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The Intersection of Corporate, Arts, and Entrepreneurship: Meet Alyce Alston
by | Apr 3, 2019
As leader of The DEC and the person behind Dallas Startup Week, Alyce Alston is responsible for helping entrepreneurs start, build, and grow their businesses through innovation hubs.
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Founders

Disrupt Dallas Kicks Off Dallas Startup Week with Founders of Color Panel

by | Apr 2, 2019
The event also featured a talk with Morgan DeBaun, co-founder and CEO of the digital content startup Blavity, which raised $6.5 million in a Series A round late last year.
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CerSci
Meet the Innovators: Lucas Rodriguez, CEO of CerSci Therapeutics
by | Apr 1, 2019
CerSci's focus is on alleviating human suffering and rescuing society from the ongoing opioid crisis via a pain drug that does not affect the central nervous system.
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Winter is Coming to Dallas With the Game Of Thrones Augmented Reality Experience
by | Mar 29, 2019
HBO is partnering with AT&T and AR startup Magic Leap to celebrate the TV show's final season—and let fans attempt to take on a White Walker—through immersive technology.
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Dallas-Founded Dating App, Vouch, Brings on a New Female CEO
by | Mar 18, 2019
Last year, Bachelor alum Sean Lowe announced he was launching a dating app where your friends could swipe for you. Now, Lowe and his team have revamped the technology and brought on a strong, local female voice to grow the platform: Christiana Yebra.
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ParkHub’s George Baker on Founding, Funding, and Finding His Spot in Business

by | Mar 14, 2019
With a $13 million Series B funding round recently completed, the ParkHub founder and CEO talks about how his company came to be and his plans for growth.
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International Women’s Day: Meet 12 Women Who Are Shaping Innovation in Dallas
by | Mar 8, 2019
From a startup founder assisting women with low sexual desire, to a cohort of business owners who have teamed up for success, to brilliant minds shaping healthcare—meet some of Dallas' female entrepreneurs.
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Startup Couples: rewardStyle’s Amber & Baxter Box on Balance and Finding Success—Together
by | Feb 26, 2019
North Texas' entrepreneurial power couples, this time the founders of rewardStyle, talk about life, balance, and finding success in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Dallas Startup With the ‘World’s First Transparent Marketplace’ Helps Businesses Cut Costs
by | Feb 14, 2019
NickelCommerce hopes to save food and beverage businesses money with low-priced cost-tracking and a simple inventory system. Now, it's ramping up growth and looking for some outside funding.
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New On-Demand App Brings Bartenders and Servers to Dallas Events

by | Feb 4, 2019
Sásta, which bills itself as "Dallas' first on-demand bartender and server app," provides a network of trained service industry professionals available for hire to work in-home, corporate, and personal events.
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Four rules for how startups can find money in Dallas Fort Worth
Raising Money: Four Rules for Finding Dough in DFW
by | Jan 29, 2019
There are rules to raising money. There are laws and regulations, yes. And admonitions on websites about how particular investors prefer to be pitched. But there are plenty of unwritten rules. To boost the odds of landing early-stage funding, you’ll need to know those, too.
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modesens The ModeSens leadership team—(from left) CMO Krystle Craycraft, CEO Brian Li, and Fashion Director Jing Leng—recently moved to Dallas.
Tech Meets Fashion: Digital Startup Moves HQ to Dallas
by | Jan 14, 2019
ModeSens directly connects its members with luxury brands to streamline the online shopping process. Recently, to formalize and grow the business, the Seattle-founded startup moved to downtown Dallas.
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Meta Saas Startup: A Dozen Top Stories from 2018
Startup: A Dozen Top Stories from 2018
by | Jan 7, 2019
In an annual tradition, we look back on Dallas Innovates’ most-read stories in each of our buckets of innovation: Startup, Invention, Education, Social, Creative, and Enterprise. Here’s a roundup of the “Top 12” in Startup for 2018.
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