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• Austin Next Spotlight: CIBC Innovation - Link
• Art Meets Tech: Insights from Constance Y. White, Manager of Austin's Art and Public Places Program - Link
  - Austin Next Podcast
   
• Josh Wilson Leads SciPlay to New Heights as CEO - Link
• Health Insurance Startup Decent to Shut Down and Layoff Employees - Link
  - Silicon Hill's News' Laura Lorek
   
• What happened to the Zilker Park mini-train? - Link
• Tower construction to close Red River in Rainey district until SXSW - Link
• Convention center eyes ‘campus-style’ events schedule during closure for expansion - Link
  - Austin Monitor
   
• Dr. Kavita Radhakrishnan Secures $6.5M in New NIH Funding to Move Digital Games Research Forward - Link
• AI Master’s Program Launches With Ability to Serve Thousands - Link
• Focus on NFL Star’s Care Belies Medical Racism in U.S. - Link
• Mellon Foundation Advances Humanities and Arts Initiatives at UT Austin - Link
• UT Austin Campus Named as Newest H-E-B Delivery Hub - Link
  - University of Texas
   
• Tesla, insurers take different paths to deal with expensive repairs - Link
• Suppli Raises $3.1M to Modernize Construction Payments, Grow - Link
• RapidDeploy Raises $34M to Grow Its First Responder Platform - Link
• “Old School” Onboarding Is a Thing of the Past (But the Free Swag .- Link
• ThirveCart's $35M Raise, National Instruments' Bid, and More Austin - Link
  - Built in Austin
   
• Legal landscape in focus: New list of largest firms in Austin revealed- Link
• Transfinder adding employees, revenue in Austin with software for school buses- Link
• Small Plates: Torchy's Tacos debuting in new suburb; Austin adding wine bars- Link
• Journal Profile: Ashley Jackson was destined for top of Austin's real estate scene- Link
• Texas Mutual launches subsidiary offering health insurance for small businesses- Link
• Austin legal tech company Disco to lay off 9% of workforce- Link
• Public safety tech startup RapidDeploy raises $34M- Link
• General contractor tapped for Shop LC HQ in Cedar Park- Link
• What's the forecast for Austin's economy? Like the weather, by the time you ask it may have already changed- Link
• Austin looks recession resilient in '23, experts agree. Instead, it's plagued by other ills.- Link
• IBM joins flood of tech layoffs — but says these cuts are different- Link
• Tesla to start mass producing Cybertrucks in Austin in 2024- Link
• Geospatial specialist SAM adds 17K-square-foot Cedar Park office- Link
• This CEO still loves Austin, but he's moving his startup to Tulsa- Link
• Alan Graham's village for the formerly homeless receives $35M from Travis County- Link
• Austin has 6 semifinalists in James Beard Awards- Link
• Streaming star SypherPK opens $10M Oni Studios near Austin- Link
• Amazon hires VP of worldwide corporate real estate- Link
• 3D-printed homes startup Icon enacts 'small' round of layoffs- Link
• Dells recognized by Forbes for philanthropy- Link
• M&A Wrap: CesiumAstro, NSG open wallets; Remco Insurance bought by national agency- Link
• Marina Gonzales is unifying voices of Texas' Hispanic businesses- Link
• Small Plates: Storefronts snagged for Tex-Mex, cookies; Downtown getting new Irish pub- Link
• Emerson won't nominate director slate at takeover target NI- Link
• Taylor Shead wants to create an educational metaverse that's 'as ubiquitous as Google Maps'- Link
  - Austin Business Journal & Austin Inno's Brent Wistrom
   
• Elon Musk's Tesla finished an uneven 2022 with strong 4th quarter - Link
• Austin-based Tesla to spend $3.6B on semitruck, battery plants in Nevada - Link
• Construction begins on new 48-story high-rise on Austin's Rainey Street - Link
• Austin's retail space crunch has some merchants stuck on sidelines - Link
• 'No slowdown in need for people': Austin jobless rate slips to 2.7% - Link
• Google not saying how many Austin workers hit by worldwide job cuts - Link
• Did Tesla pick a Texas site for a $375M battery refinery? What we know - Link
  - Austin American-Statesman

• Turn Medical partners with U.S. Med-Equip to widen access to innovative hospital bed - Link
• LASO Health launches LASO Plus, partners with Walmart - Link
  - Startups San Antonio’s Iris Gonzalez
   
• Tech Port Center gets new name, $2.3M investment from Boeing - Link
  - San Antonio Report
   
• Texas great for business, not so much for workers, studies find - Link
• Wanna bet? Texas Legislature to reconsider legalizing casinos and sports betting - Link
• San Antonio police reform group launches online dashboard to curb problem of bad cops being rehired - Link
• Legalizing cannabis reduces opioid prescriptions, study shows - Link
• San Antonio high schooler named finalist in prestigious national science competition - Link
• Six San Antonio chefs and restaurants among 2023 James Beard Award semifinalists - Link
• Austin could experience 2008-style real-estate market collapse, Goldman Sachs predicts - Link
• Pressure builds for Texas lawmakers to expand medical cannabis, weigh decriminalization - Link
  - San Antonio Current
   
• Legal landscape in focus: New list of largest firms in Austin revealed - Link
• Transfinder adding employees, revenue in Austin with software for school buses - Link
• Journal Profile: Ashley Jackson was destined for top of Austin's real estate scene - Link
• Texas Mutual launches subsidiary offering health insurance for small businesses - Link
• Austin legal tech company Disco to lay off 9% of workforce - Link
• Public safety tech startup RapidDeploy raises $34M - Link
• General contractor tapped for Shop LC HQ in Cedar Park - Link
• What's the forecast for Austin's economy? Like the weather, by the time you ask it may have already changed - Link
• Austin looks recession resilient in '23, experts agree. Instead, it's plagued by other ills. - Link
• IBM joins flood of tech layoffs — but says these cuts are different - Link
• Tesla to start mass producing Cybertrucks in Austin in 2024 - Link
• Geospatial specialist SAM adds 17K-square-foot Cedar Park office - Link
• This CEO still loves Austin, but he's moving his startup to Tulsa - Link
• Alan Graham's village for the formerly homeless receives $35M from Travis County - Link
• Streaming star SypherPK opens $10M Oni Studios near Austin - Link
• Amazon hires VP of worldwide corporate real estate - Link
• 3D-printed homes startup Icon enacts 'small' round of layoffs - Link
• Dells recognized by Forbes for philanthropy - Link
• M&A Wrap: CesiumAstro, NSG open wallets; Remco Insurance bought by national agency - Link
• Marina Gonzales is unifying voices of Texas' Hispanic businesses - Link
• Emerson won't nominate director slate at takeover target NI - Link
• Taylor Shead wants to create an educational metaverse that's 'as ubiquitous as Google Maps' - Link
  - San Antonio Business Journal

• #30: Bootstrapped IT mgt. software to over $10 million in annual sales before being acquired – Scott McCausland - Link
  - Practical Founders Podcast's Greg Head
   
• Wanna bet? Texas Legislature to reconsider legalizing casinos and sports betting - Link
• Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce elects officers, board members for 2023 - Link
• Perryman: Here we go again – Congress playing dangerous game with debt limit - Link
  - Fort Worth Business News
   
• Frisco’s Greenwatt Lighting Launches Alert System for Schools with First Install in Southlake  - Link
• Match Group’s New CEO Names New Leadership Team and Organizational Structure  - Link
• Fort Worth’s Rainwater Charitable Foundation Awards $600K in Prizes for Brain Research  - Link
• Comerica Begins Unique Offerings to Help its Small Business Customers  - Link
• CBRE Survey: DFW is Nation’s No. 1 Target for CRE Investment in 2023  - Link
• Santander Consumer USA Names President of Chrysler Capital & Auto Relationships  - Link
• The Last Word: Spin the Spectrum’s Courtney Willis on How DJ Training Can Help Autistic People  - Link
• The Last Word: Brian Gorenc on Trend Micro’s Connected Vehicle Event Coming to Tokyo in 2024  - Link
• AI Innovation: U.S. Patent Office to Hold Public Meeting in Dallas on Emerging Tech, IP Challenges  - Link
• The Marketing Arm Agency Makes CEO, Executive Chairman Moves  - Link
• Cook Children’s and Twisted X Partner on Patient-Designed Footwear Collection  - Link
• RREAF Holdings Announces Multiple Promotions, Hires to Boost Continued Expansion  - Link
• Professional Services Giant Jacobs Announces New EVP/Chief Financial Officer  - Link
• Meow Wolf Adds 3 ‘Innovative Humanoids” to its Leadership Team  - Link
• Global Tech Company Announces New Innovation, Design Hub in Richardson Innovation Quarter  - Link
• Schumacher Electric Partners with GreenMarbles on EV Products  - Link
• Dallas’ MedCognetics Gets $750K NIH Grant to Research Unbiased AI for Breast Cancer Detection  - Link
• Plano-based Hilti NA Launches New Time-Saving Digital Layout Tool  - Link
• DataBank Appoints Industry Veteran as SVP of Managed Services  - Link
• After HQ Move to Dallas, EoS Fitness Opens First Texas Location in Euless  - Link
• Plano-Based Beal Bank Enters the Online CD Market with Two Plano-Based Divisions  - Link
• Ohio Company Acquires McKinney-based Bakery, Dessert Maker Cookies-n-Milk  - Link
• Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center to Host Open Model and Talent Call this Saturday  - Link
• Vistra Expands Program for Customers to Control Consumption During High Demand Periods  - Link
• Comerica Inc. Promotes Three Executives to Newly Established Positions  - Link
• Docu Series ‘Giving Voice: Black CEOs in Their Own Words” Highlighted at Dallas Event  - Link
• Education Nonprofit Big Thought Names New Chief Operating Officer  - Link
• Mesquite Industrial Project Lands 600K SF Deal with Illinois Logistics Company  - Link
• Motel 6 Parent Company Reaffirms Commitment to Fight Human Trafficking  - Link
• Girl Power: Girls Inc.’s Mission To Empower The Next Generation Of Strong, Smart, And Bold Girls  - Link
• Dallas Venture Capital Partners with T-Hub, an Innovation Hub and Business Incubator, and Launches the DVC India Fund  - Link
• DHA, Housing Solutions of North Texas Adds New Board Member  - Link
• Solera Integrates AutoPoint Journey and Lojack Boosting Auto Dealer Capabilities  - Link
• Charles Schwab Corp. Acquires Family Wealth Alliance  - Link
• The Last Word: Starship Bagel’s Oren Salomon on Dallas’ Bagel City Identity  - Link
• Talkmap Names New EVP/Chief Product Officer, Adds Board Member  - Link
• New Chief Executive Officer Takes Command at Dallas-based Jacobs  - Link
• JCPenney Partners with Pet Shelters on ‘Photo Sessions’ for Senior Dog Adoptees  - Link
• Healthcare Tech Firm ShiftKey Adds 4 New C-Suite Executives  - Link
• UNT HSC at Fort Worth Offers Free Health Care to Performing Artists Through Late April  - Link
• DMN: New Retail Buildings Coming to Dallas’ Henderson Avenue East of the Knox Street District  - Link
• Meet Wiggle. She’s Helping a UT Dallas Team Develop a Treat-Dispensing Agility Course for Home-Alone Dogs  - Link
• Online Protection Provider McAfee Announces Regional HQ at The Star in Frisco  - Link
• Digital Infrastructures Firm Extenet Appoints New Chief Revenue Officer  - Link
• The Last Word: The USPTO on How Three Dallas Sisters Gave Maternity Wear a Stylish Innovation  - Link
• DFW Tops U.S. Metros in Commercial Property Deals for 3rd Year in a Row  - Link
• Arlington to Conduct “Safe Walks” Study With Help from U.S. Conference of Mayors Grant  - Link
• City of Mansfield Partners on a Planned 240K-SF ‘Mansfield Innovation Community’  - Link
• ‘Semi-Private’ San Francisco Jet Service Expands to Dallas Love Field, Offers $1K Flights to Aspen and Los Cabos  - Link
• Irving’s Caris Life Sciences Closes On $400M Secured Term Loan  - Link
  - Dallas Innovates
   
• The Texas Bill Hoping to Make Healthcare a Market Again - Link
• The Office is Changing: Here are Five Topics the C-Suite Can’t Ignore - Link
• The Biden Administration Takes Aim at Tenant Protections and Affordable Housing - Link
• Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center Plan New $2.5 Billion Dallas Pediatric Medical Campus - Link
  - D Magazine
   
• $18M incentive for Goldman Sachs expansion in Dallas ranks among nation's highest - Link
• Dallas-based Match Group restructures executive leadership team - Link
• Consolation Prize: Dallas Cowboys are the richest sports team in America - Link
• These are the 50 highest-rated restaurants in Dallas, according to OpenTable - Link
• Tesla to start mass producing Cybertrucks in Austin in 2024 - Link
• Survey: North Texas is the No. 1 destination for commercial real estate investment this year - Link
• Plano-based CorroHealth appoints new Chief Commercial Officer - Link
• Nothing Bundt Cakes taps industry veteran Chris Tarrant as Chief Development Officer - Link
• The Marketing Arm promotes current president Trina Roffino to CEO - Link
• Dallas-based cybersecurity firm Zimperium appoints new chief marketing officer - Link
• Dallas-based education nonprofit Big Thought names Mustapha Beydoun as COO - Link
• Dallas-based Jacobs names Claudia Jaramillo as new CFO - Link
• Independent Bank expects loan growth to slow in 2023 due to economic uncertainty, high interest rates - Link
• Making the cut: The DFW chefs and restaurants that are James Beard semifinalists - Link
• MoneyGram, BOTIM partner to launch international money transfer - Link
• Amazon hires VP of worldwide corporate real estate - Link
• Dallas-based Matador Resources buys EnCap-backed Advance Energy for $1.6B - Link
• Comerica promotes three of its top executives - Link
• How CEO Jean Savage is delivering innovation at Trinity Industries - Link
• Dallas-based Tango appoints Sebastian Peluffo as CFO - Link
• Andrea Hohermuth named as president for Carrollton-based FASTSIGNS - Link
• $2B Dallas tech firm ShiftKey expands team, hires four executives - Link
• AmerisourceBergen is changing its name - Link
• Comerica economist: 'Great Resignation has largely run its course" - Link
• 3M will cut 2,500 jobs after missing fourth-quarter profit estimates - Link
• Embark CEO Clancy Fossum shares past challenges, company’s growth plans - Link
• Dickey's Barbecue Pit continues international expansion, this time into the Philippines - Link
• Frisco-based Extenet Systems appoints new Chief Revenue Officer - Link
• Irving's Caris Life Sciences receives $400M secured term loan - Link
• Fidelity’s Jami Boledovich on her path to sales exec, problem-solving and closing deals - Link
• United Development Funding appeals allege government failed to prove intent to misappropriate funds - Link
• How this niche focus has been a profit-driving boon for Triumph Financial - Link
  - Dallas Business Journal & NXT Inno

• 21 researchers and companies have been selected to join the 2023 Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics. - Link
  - Texas Medical Center
   
• Growing Houston-based drone software company snags government contract - Link
• Report: Houstonians lose days-worth of time each year due to rush hour - Link
• 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week - Link
• 2 Houston suburbs roll onto top-15 spots on U-Haul’s list of growing cities - Link
• Houston-based creator economy platform goes live nationally - Link
• Houston expert: Space tourism is the future — do we have the workforce to run it? - Link
• Climatetech incubator announces C-suite promotion, Houston jobs, and nonprofit transition - Link
• Photos: Houston coworking company expands with new location - Link
• This Houston entrepreneur is enabling fashion upcycling for more sustainable style - Link
• Houston startup teams up with nonprofit research for decarbonization pilot - Link
• Houston researcher tapped for prestigious fellowship for offshore safety innovation - Link
• Pitch perfect: What investors are looking for, according to Houston research - Link
• Houston area robotics tech company announces European expansion - Link
• UH launches hydrogen economy program for energy professionals, students - Link
• 3 Houston innovators to know this week - Link
  - Innovation Map Houston’s Natalie Harms
   
• Students express frustration over the removal of Graduate College of Social Work dean - Link
• AI art should be used with caution - Link
  - University of Houston
   
• Rice scientists’ discovery could lead to new Alzheimer’s therapies - Link
• Rice Business’ online MBA program rises in US News rankings - Link
• Ready, set, Lego! - Link
  - Rice University
   
• NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will pass a 10th asteroid - Link
  - Houston Chronicle
   
• Houston First partners with James Beard Foundation to host chef summit, sees 'healthy year' ahead for conferences - Link
• Restaurant Roundup: Graffiti Raw opens in Montrose Collective; Fire temporarily closes La Calle in Midtown - Link
• Berg Hospitality Group to open 2 new restaurants on Washington Avenue - Link
• Back to bull: Investors expect bull market by the end of 2023 - Link
• After going public, Nauticus Robotics CEO sees going global as key to diversity of work - Link
• CoStar in talks to buy operator of Realtor.com from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp - Link
• Florida biotech co. Pacira Biosciences opens Houston clinician training center - Link
• Syzygy Plasmonics signs pilot agreement with North Carolina research nonprofit - Link
• M&A Roundup: Houston-based manufacturing, staffing companies make deals - Link
• From military to money: TDECU CEO's U.S. Army background influences how he leads - Link
• Looking to cut business expenses in 2023? Here are 4 benefits of cost-control management - Link
• University of Houston-Downtown welcomes new Wellness & Success Center - Link
• Group 1 Automotive adds chief legal officer, chief marketing officer - Link
  - Houston Business Journal

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• Former Kind execs launch incubation and investment firm Camino Partners | Food Dive - Link
• 40 Useful Concepts You Should Know - by Gurwinder - Link
• Cost-effective IP strategies can lead to massive exit valuations | TechCrunch - Link
• Investor Connect: Kurt Wilkin of HireBetter and Bee Cave Capital - Link
• 3 Deeper Questions New Investors Should Ask Founders | LinkedIn - Link