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Suzanne Cruz-Sewell and Dennis Cail
American National Bank of Texas Adds 2 New Members to Board
by Lance Murray | Apr 28, 2023
Suzanne Cruz-Sewell and Dennis Cail bring extensive business and civic experience to their roles on the bank's board "that’s focused on making our communities stronger by making businesses stronger.”
by Lance Murray |
Nov 4, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Allied Electronics & Automation, Cooksey Communications, Stream Data Centers, NexBank, McKissack & McKissack, Zirtue, and more.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Oct 28, 2022
In this week’s North Texas deal flow, you’ll also find news about Taysha Gene Therapies landing a $50M investment; music tech startup MAX’s Series B raise; Dallas Venture Capital’s latest investment; Tyler Technologies’ $68M acquisition of Rapid Financial Solutions; NaturalShrimp hitting the Nasdaq Capital Market; and more.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 8, 2022
Two Dallas companies have been awarded $100,000 each by the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund, which aims to help close racial disparities in VC funding given to diverse founders. The startups will also receive Google Cloud credits and hands-on support from Google. They join several other North Texas companies that received earlier grants from the fund.
“Across the U.S., there are amazing Black startup founders who are building great companies yet are locked out of access to the funding that's critical to their success,” Google wrote in a blog post.
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Dennis Cail, CEO and co-founder of Zirtue [Photo: Zirtue]
Dallas Fintech Zirtue Opens Its Platform to Businesses as a New Alternative Payment Solution
by Alex Edwards | Dec 7, 2021
Zirtue's Alternative Payment Solution—operating in stealth mode to Fortune 500 corporate partners since early 2021—is now open to all businesses for consumers to pay their bills. It's a "new level of convenience," CEO and Co-Founder Dennis Cail says: The product gives those who are struggling a way to lean on friends, family, and loved ones to make payments, while providing accountability and trust to the lender.
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by Alex Edwards |
Apr 27, 2021
The VC arm of Northwestern Mutual, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, invests in financial technology startups that are focused on historically underbanked and underfunded populations. That's Zirtue's bread and butter: The growing startup touts the first and only relationship-based lending app that drives financial inclusion and freedom.
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by Quincy Preston and Sandra Engelland |
Feb 10, 2021
Dennis Cail launched Zirtue to reimagine lending. Its patent-pending app has been downloaded by hundreds of thousands of users. Ongoing access to Google engineers will help the fintech scale faster.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
Dec 1, 2020
Dallas' own Kanarys, Inc. and Zirtue are joining the three-day Rise of the Rest Virtual Tour: Equity Edition. This year's speakers include AOL co-founder Steve Case and NBA and NHL sports team owner Ted Leonsis.
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Dr. Tye and Courtney Caldwell, founders of ShearShare [Photo: Courtesy ShearShare]
Google for Startups Awards $300K to Four Dallas-Area Black Founders
by Alex Edwards | Oct 6, 2020
CourMed, Kanarys, ShearShare, and Zirtue are among the 76 nationwide recipients of the $5 million Google for Startups Black Founders Fund. Each startup will receive non-dilutive cash awards—meaning that the founders aren't giving up any company ownership in exchange for the funding.
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by Bill Chinn, CEO, The DEC |
Jun 11, 2020
Dennis Cail, Co-Founder and CEO of Zirtue, shares his advice on being open and honest about things regardless of the situation, investing in yourself before others invest in you, and building a relationship with your mentor face-to-face (virtually, for now).
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 30, 2020
AT&T and UT Southwestern Medical are among Zirtue's corporate partners. The startup wants to help businesses collect more and write off less with its relationship-lending app.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Oct 11, 2019
Zirtue offers a peer-to-peer lending platform that creates a more formal payment process for the lender and the borrower. Think Venmo, with a twist: Zirtue adds a layer of accountability to loaning money between friends and family.
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