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Tech Company Pathlock Appoints New Chief Revenue Officer

by | Nov 18, 2022
Pathlock's recent mergers, acquisitions, and capital raises have enabled the company to address the increasing risk in application security while establishing its leadership position as the industry's most complete 360-degree platform for application security and controls automation.
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Cosm Will Build an Immersive, Experiential Entertainment Venue at Grandscape in The Colony
by | Nov 16, 2022
Cosm at Grandscape will be the company's second public entertainment venue in the U.S., bringing entertainment to life through state-of-the-art technology that seamlessly bridges the gap between virtual and physical realities. Guests will be immersed in "shared reality" experiences from live sports to events, art, music, and more. RealPage founder and Mirasol Capital CEO Steve Winn is chairman of the entertainment tech startup.
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Tech Titans Adds 6 Industry Veterans to Its Board of Directors
by | Nov 12, 2022

Richardson-based Tech Titans has announced the newest additions to its board of directors.

Tech Titans is the largest technology trade association in Texas, representing a quarter million employees through its 300 member companies....

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ParkHub Acquires California-Based Parking Software Provider
by | Oct 28, 2022
Two months after acquiring Fuzse, a payment processing integrator, Dallas-based ParkHub has scooped up Smarking to broaden its product suite and expand into new end markets. Founded in 2014, San Francisco-based Smarking is a SaaS-based solution that enables customers across North America to effectively manage their parking assets through access to real-time data and analytics.
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DI People: Optic Gaming, Ziosk, Dr Pepper Keurig, and More Announce Leadership Moves

by | Oct 21, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Advent International, Stellar, Stream Realty Partners, The Citizenry, Sabre Corp., SB Architects, and others.
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2 Former Match Group CEOs Join Advent International as Operating Partners
by | Oct 20, 2022
Shar Dubey and Mandy Ginsberg will play key roles in further building out Advent’s consumer technology practice and work collaboratively with the firm’s consumer and technology investment teams and the management teams of its portfolio companies.
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Apex Fintech Solutions Hires Schwab-TD Exec as Chief Product Officer of Advisory
by | Oct 13, 2022
Dallas-based Apex Fintech Solutions has tapped Jon Patullo to lead the technology product strategy for Apex Advisor Solutions, its advisory channel.

The industry veteran was most recently managing director of digital trading and wealth management for Southlake-based Charles Schwab Corp. and managing director of technology platform management at TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.
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Critical Start Announces 3 New Executives, 2 Promotions Among Leadership
by | Sep 13, 2022

Critical Start CEO and Founder Rob Davis says the cyber threat landscape continues to expand— and the need for breach prevention solutions has never been greater....

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Dallas Fintech Startup Emerges From Stealth to ‘Democratize Banking’

by | Feb 23, 2022
Emerging from stealth this quarter, Deposits.com, a platform that Co-Founder and CEO Joseph Akintolayo describes as the “Shopify of banking," is looking to add financial literacy and wellness tools to its technology. It plans to do that in a partnership with Utah-based MX, a financial data platform valued at $1.9 billion.
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With Local Acquisition, International Security Firm Launches New Cash Management Business
by | Feb 3, 2022
Canadian security giant GardaWorld has acquired Carrollton-based Tidel and inked a definitive agreement to buy the cash management business of Sweden’s Gunnebo Group. GardaWorld is combining them into a new cash ecosystem performance and tech company to be named Sesami Cash Management Technologies.
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Irving-Based ExxonMobil Acquires Materia Inc., Plans to Bring Its Nobel Prize-Winning Tech to Scale
by | Dec 8, 2021
The deal combines Materia’s Nobel Prize-winning hydrocarbon-based materials technology with ExxonMobil’s manufacturing capabilities to commercialize a new class of structural materials. Applications could include everything from wind power turbine blades to EV parts to sustainable construction products.
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Plano Siemens HQ Expands Hiring as it Widens Applications for Digital Twin Tech
by | Aug 21, 2021
Siemens Digital Industries Software headquarters is hiring like gangbusters. Siemens CFO Timo Nentwich, who moved to Dallas from Berlin last October, says the company has moved far beyond enabling the designs of airplanes and cars, into analyzing entire manufacturing processes.

“Few people know that we’re running a large operation like this out of the Plano office,” the CFO said.
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Dallas Invents: 125 Patents Granted for Week of May 11

by | May 25, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven’s event trigger based on region-of-interest near hand-shelf interaction, American Airlines’ monitoring/alert system for airline gate activities, Danco’s smart water system, Dell’s method to manage file access rights in an information handling system, Discourse.AI’s training of chatbots , Fresh Innovations’ avocado tray, Lintec of America’s tear-resistant nanofiber sheet, IBM’s managing transparent windows, Rain Bird’s volumetric budget based irrigation control, and RFCyber’s payments between two mobile devices.
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Dallas Invents: 115 Patents Granted for Week of May 4
by | May 19, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Allied Bioscience's aqueous antimicrobial coatings, American Leather Operations convertible furniture, Caris Science's method for measuring the amount of at least one molecule in a bio sample, Siemens Industry Software 's environmental perception in autonomous driving STMicroelectronics' NFC antenna switch, Toyota's collaboorative robot hand bearing for high-torque tightening applications, and vSpatial's method for creating a collaborative virtual session.
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Dallas Invents: 119 Patents Granted for Week of April 27
by | May 11, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's authentication using blockchains, Dell's validation of data integrity through watermarking, Samsung's compensating for a movement of a sensor attached to a body of a user, SYNERGEN Technology Labs' baby monitor system sound and light delivery based on vitals,Toyota's parking meter monitoring and payment system, and Walmart's product recognition through multi-model image processing.
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Apple Invests $410M in II-VI Inc., Supporting 700+ Jobs in Sherman and Other U.S. Cities
by | May 5, 2021
The optical tech firm produces iPhone laser technology that powers Face ID, Memoji, Animoji, and Portrait Mode selfies.
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