TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2023

FEMTECH FUNDING

Rosy Wellness Raises $1.2M To Grow Its Women's Sexual Health Platform

Dallas-based Rosy aims "to smash taboos around women's sexual health" by using technology to bridge gaps in care. In a Q&A with Dallas Innovates, Founder and CEO Dr. Lyndsey Harper talks about raising $4.2 million to date as a femtech startup; her plans for Rosy's growth; AI's place in women's sexual health; and more.

NATURAL LANGUAGE AI

Mindzie Launches Generative AI-Powered Business Process Mining Platform

Southlake-based mindize says that by training AI to think like a "process analyst," it can enable organizations to accelerate their process improvement initiatives and achieve rapid digital transformation. "Our unique approach will allow customers to leverage the power of AI chat to discover process insights, while never exposing their data," says CEO James Henderson.

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Dallas County, North Texas Innovation Alliance Seek UAS/Robotics Vendors for Innovation Demo Day

The county will be hosting a UAS/Robotics Innovation Demo Day on June 26 to introduce use cases to Dallas County departments and to assess their ROI potential and scalability for wider county and local government implementation. The submission deadline is June 5.

PLUS

DFW Airport To Demo Next-Gen EV Charging Solutions for Employees, Public
Next up? Robotic charging services

ONLINE DEMAND 

H-E-B To Open ‘Futuristic’ E-Commerce Fulfillment Center in Plano

After opening store locations in Frisco and Plano last year—and with plans to open more in Fort Worth, McKinney, Allen, and Forney—H-E-B will use its new center to fulfill curbside and home delivery orders and support its expansion into Dallas-Fort Worth. 

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BUY BACK 

Founders Buy Dallas’ Four Corners Brewing Back from Industry Giant

The deal comes after Constellation Brands—which bought Four Corners in 2018—made a strategic decision to concentrate on the beers that helped give it a market cap of nearly $43 billion: Modelo, Corona, and Pacifico. Four Corners Brewing will now get back to its "entrepreneurial roots," says one of its three co-founders.

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PROXIMITY 

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Has a New Address: A Prison in Texas

TheTheranos founder, whose downfall has become a cautionary tale for the "fake it until you make it" ethos, moved into her new minimum-security home today about 176 miles from DFW in Bryan. Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison last November for fraudulently misleading investors in the Theranos blood-testing device hoax.

Read more in ICYMI.

‘The Next Significant Development’ in DFW: Billingsley Plans Nearly 500‑Acre, $3B Mixed‑Use Project in Allen and Fairview

“I think we’re going to have sell-out crowds.”

Rodd Newhouse
COO and Co-Managing Partner
Dallas Jackals
.…on the potential success of Major League Rugby in Dallas-Fort Worth, via Dallas Business Journal.
 

You’d think that Newhouse, who grew up in a football-focused home with the 12-season Dallas Cowboys fullback Robert Newhouse as his dad, would have eyes only for the NFL. But Rodd always had a thing for the sport of rugby, according to the Dallas Business Journal’s David Moreno—preferring the helmet-less brawn of muscular scrums where a “try” is scored when you touch the ball down in the “in-goal” beyond the goal line. 

“When I was younger, I didn’t know what it was because you didn’t really see rugby in the States,” Newhouse told the DBJ. “I was the guy flipping through channels at 1 a.m. or 2 a.m. trying to find this sport.”

Well, he’s found it all right. Shown above with Dallas Jackals GM Santiago Sodini and team president Steve Violetta at Arlington’s Choctaw Stadium, Newhouse is part of the team bringing the Major League Rugby squad to a region that’s long felt the gravitational pull of the Dallas Cowboys, as Dallas Innovates told you last August.

Read more.