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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information: Darlene Ryan (817) 339-8968 darlene@techfortworth.org Three companies set to impact our world FORT WORTH, Texas (May 15, 2013) – Three emerging companies with prospects of having a global impact were selected for the fifth TECH Fort Worth IMPACT Awards. The winners, by category: Community –Student Success Academy Energy and [...]

DALLAS, TX–Nine DFW companies have been officially announced as semi-finalists for the 2013 TeXchange “One to Watch” award, presented by Travis Wolff, LLP. Semi-finalists were chosen by their peers from among 120 candidate companies, all early-stage DFW technology startups that the organization believes are destined for great things. “The idea behind the award is to [...]

The 2012 HALO Report (http://www.svb.com/halo-report/) reports that angel investment dollars in the Southwest region, which includes Texas, grew from 7.9% of nationwide angel investments in 2011 to 11.0% in 2012 while “biggies” like California and the Southeast took significant hits, dropping from 31.0% to 23.1% and 18.5% to 10.8% respectively.  The number of deals in [...]

DALLAS, Apr 25, 2013 — It’s one thing to sell a book. It’s another to build passionate communities around the content, providing lucrative channels for new sales and marketing opportunities. Today bookshout! announced $6M in Series B funding to expand its digital book distribution and engagement platform, giving authors control of their audiences and publishers [...]

Contact: Michael Walsh                                                                     For Immediate Release 469-759-0877 www.cariloop.com mwalsh@cariloop.com   Cariloop Connects Geriatric Care Providers and Patients Looks to revolutionize how [...]

Entrepreneurs and Founders, It is truly exciting to see how the accelerator community is growing in DFW. Tech Wildcatters has done an amazing job pioneering the accelerator community and with the recent announcement of their addition with Health Wildcatters, this is a wonderful expansion into a new and needed industry. In addition to the great work that [...]

TeXchange is bringing in technology heavy-hitter Brett Hurt for their Dinner Series this week.  Brett co-founded Bazaarvoice, an Austin Venture backed company that went public in early 2012. Bazaarvoice is a next-generation technology tool that lets big brands connect to their customers more easily online.  Check out their site to learn more. To register for [...]

Tech Wildcatters has been so successful, local doctors turned investors are plowing money back into early stage technology – now with a focus on health technology companies.  It’s called Health Wildcatters and it will be run by Hubert Zajicek, who just left his position as medical technology director at the Frisco technology incubator NTEC. It’s super [...]

Attention entrepreneurs in DFW! Mark Cuban’s Shark Tank is coming through Dallas this week on Saturday.   Here’s some details: Attend one of our Nationwide Open Calls where you will be given the opportunity to do a 1-minute pitch of your business/product/idea to a member of the Casting Team – just like you would as [...]

This past weekend Dallas startup rewardStyle hosted their first hackathon event. rewardStyle, a platform that helps fashion/style bloggers monetize their content, recently launched their developer API and the hackathon was an opportunity to not only foster usage of the API, but also connect some of the top entrepreneurial talent in the metroplex. After 2.5 days [...]