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Fort Worth’s SquareDash Raises Total of Over $20M to Accelerate Growth of Its Contractor Payment Platform

by | Mar 18, 2024
SquareDash said its latest equity round was led by FINTOP Capital. The funds will be used to expand the startup's payment advance and subscription services, grow the team, and invest in sales and marketing.
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Spinning Success: Dallas Startup Tuned In Grading Acquired by Music Mogul Steve Aoki Just Two Years Post-Launch
by | Mar 18, 2024
With bootstrap funding of less than $500,000 and a passion for vinyl, Rogers Healy and his co-founders at Tuned In Grading revolutionized music collectible authentication. Now, the beat goes on as the company prepares to merge with Steve Aoki's Audio Media Grading
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Dallas’ Form Bio and Google Cloud Help Life Science Professionals ‘Point and Click’ Their Way to Breakthrough Insights
by | Mar 18, 2024
Colossal Biosciences spinout Form Bio said it now provides a path for Google Cloud’s Vertex AI-based omics models to be used on a "point-and-click basis." Form Bio said these models "help scientists make more use of increasingly vast amounts of biological data" while speeding up computational aspects of their research.
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Here’s the Buzz About Two DFW Non‑Alcoholic Beverage Brand Launches
by | Mar 18, 2024
CURLS Founder and CEO Mahisha Dellinger has made a move from haircare products to the $13 billion non-alcoholic beverage category with newly launched and Frisco-based Huzzy Smart Sips. And in Dallas, Starla Wines has launched Starla Sips—"cute" two-bottle mini packs of its ultra-premium alcohol-removed wine.
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Calendar: Not-to-Miss Events for Innovators in Dallas-Fort Worth

North Texas has plenty to see, hear, and watch. Here are our editors' picks. Plus, you'll find more selections to "save the date."
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Neurolens Announces Leadership Restructuring to Fuel Growth, Innovation
by | Mar 15, 2024
The Coppell-based company said along with its strong foundation, the new structure combines seasoned leadership with strategic hires. Among the moves, Co-Founder Davis Corley is returning to his role as the company's CEO.
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UTD and Notre Dame Students’ Route-Planning App Gets 5 New Features After Saving Users ‘2 Million Miles’ of Driving
by | Mar 14, 2024
Launched last fall on the Apple iOS and Google Play app stores, the Routora app has added 37,000 drivers in over 90 countries, saving them 2.1 million driving miles, 50,000 hours, $315,000 in fuel costs, and 940 tons in CO2 emissions, the startup says.
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Veteran Leader Named Managing Director of SMU’s Spears Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership

by | Mar 13, 2024
Joshua Taylor will be responsible for leading the institute’s goals, programs, and operations, in alignment with the overall mission and vision of SMU Cox, co-founding directors Megha Tolia and Nirav Tolia, and benefactor Dr. William S. Spears.
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High-Tech ‘Field Trips’: NTXIA Launches Immersive Innovation Program
by | Mar 12, 2024
The North Texas Innovation Alliance has begun offering quarterly "hands-on innovation experiences" at "the brightest and most innovative projects across North Texas" for NTXIA members. The Immersive Innovation field trips kicked off with a tour of the NSF's newly opened eCAT Center at UNT. Here's where the NTXIA is going next.
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California’s Plus, German Truck Giant Test Self-Driving Runs Between Dallas and San Antonio
by | Mar 12, 2024
Silicon Valley-based autonomous driving startup Plus has announced a partnership with brands of the Munich-based TRATON GROUP. The partners say they're already testing self-driving trucking runs between Dallas and Houston with a safety driver on board—and more runs are coming "in the Texas triangle and I-10 corridor."
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The Last Word: IOOGO’s Kristy Alballero On the ‘ALL-Women’ Award Winners at The DEC Network’s State of Entrepreneurship 2024
Today is International Women's Day, and many women entrepreneurs across North Texas are still basking in the glow of something that happened Thursday night: As Alballero said in her post, The DEC Network's 2024 State of Entrepreneurship event featured an all-star cast of women among its entrepreneur award winners.
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TechFW Appoints Longtime Entrepreneur as CEO to Lead Innovative Growth

by | Mar 8, 2024

TechFW, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering innovation and empowering technology entrepreneurs, has named veteran entrepreneur Ryan Brown as its new chief executive officer.

According to TechFW, Brown has extensive experience as an entrepreneur in various industries, including aerospace and defense, and has led company growth and executive leadership within real estate, finance, nonprofits, and events....

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Plano’s RKD Group Announces 3 Leadership Changes to Enhance Client Experience and Fundraising Results
by | Mar 8, 2024

RKD Group, a Plano-based fundraising and marketing solutions provider, has announced leadership changes aimed at strengthening its approach to purpose-driven client experience and omnichannel fundraising results....

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Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Begins Manufacturing Critical Meds in Dallas This Week, CEO Says at White House
On Monday, the online pharmacy's co-founders—Mark Cuban and CEO Dr. Alex Oshmyansky—took part in a White House roundtable on lowering healthcare costs and bringing transparency to prescription drug middlemen. Cuban criticized the industry's business practices, saying these middlemen keep drug prices high and that independent pharmacies can be forced to absorb losses when reimbursed less than the cost of the medications they purchase.
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