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The Entrepreneurial Community
Texas is arguably the No. 1 state in the country in which to DO business, and Dallas-Fort Worth is one of the best places in the country to START a business. An explosion of new startups, coworking spaces, incubators and accelerators are building a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem in Dallas-Fort Worth
A GUIDE TO THE STARTUP SCENE IN DFW
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DFW IS THE 4TH LARGEST METRO IN THE U.S.
Fortune 500 Company Headquarters18 Largest Concentration of High
Tech Workers in U.S.6TH Region for numberof patents issued, 2007-2011TOP 20 Major Airports and 2
Airline Hubs2X2
Largest Metro in Self-Employment in U.S.5TH State to Do Business, CEO
Magazine Business Climate IndexN0. 1 No Personal Income Tax, Occupation or Wage0% Population of Labor Force
with a Bachelor’s degree27.9%
DFW WORKS TOGETHER
A G U I D E T O T H E S T A R T U P S C E N E I N D A L L A S - F O R T W O R T H
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BIOPIPELINE AT BIOCENTER, UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL DISTRICTpipelineatbiocenter.com
BIOTECH MANUFACTURING CENTER OF TEXAS (BMC)athenstexasedc.com
TECH FORT WORTHtechfortworth.org
IDEA WORKS FWideaworksfw.submiable.com/
THE COLLIDE CENTERcollidecenter.com
UNITED WAY’S GROUND FLOORunitedwaydallas.org
NORTH TEXAS ENTERPRISE CENTERntec-inc.org
THE DALL AS ENTREPRENEUR CENTER (DEC)thedec.co
HONOR COURAGE COMMITMENT, INC. - VETREPRENEUR INCUBATORhonorcouragecommitment.org/vetrepreneur-incubator-program.html
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VENTURESPUR (AT THE DEC)venturespur.com
TECH FORT WORTH ACCELERATION L AB techfortworth.org
THE ARLINGTON BUSINESS ACCELERATORthecenterforinnovation.org
VENTURE DEVELOPMENT CENTER (UTD)utdallas.edu/vdc
TECH WILDCAT TERS techwildcaers.com
HEALTH WILDCAT TERShealthwildcaers.com
UNT INNOVATION GREENHOUSEinnovation.unt.edu
ACCELERATED VENTURES PROGRAMacceleratedventuresprogram.com
ACCELERATE NFCacceleratenfc.com
AT&T FOUNDRYfoundry.a.com
IBM INNOVATION CENTERibm.com/partnerworld/iic/dallas.htm
TI KILBY L ABSti.com/corp/docs/innovation/research-development/Kilby-Labs.html
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY CENTERmicroso�.com/en-us/mtc/locations/dallas.aspx
ALCATEL-LUCENT RESEARCH & INNOVATION CENTERalcatel-lucent.com
U.S. PATENT & TRADEMARK SATELLITE OFFICEuspto.gov/about/locations/satellites.jsp
ACCELERATORS & INNOVATION CENTERS
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THE COMMON DESKthecommondesk.com
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THE HIVEoakcli�hive.com
SPRY ROCKETspryrocketstation.com
COL AB WORKSPACEcolabwork.com
CONNECTIVE HUBconnectivehub.com
DALL AS FORT WORKdallasfortwork.com
DALL AS MAKERSPACEdallasmakerspace.org
THE FOUNDRY GROUPthefoundrygroup.com
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THE GROVEgrovedallas.com
THE BACKLOTbacklotfw.co
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2001 Broadcast to Yahoo
2002 Gamestop
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IPO
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$105M
$3.9B
$330M
$53M
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2013 MetroPCS to T-Mobile
2008 EDS to HP
2009 Id So�ware to Zenimax
2002 Perot Systems to Dell
2010 ITKO to CA Technologies
2010 New Toy to Zynga
2010 Quickoffice to Google
2013 So�layer to IBM
$110M 2010 Woot.com to Amazon
ACQUIRED 2013 Bo�le Rocket to WPP
7-Ventures
Aristos Ventures
Baymark Partners
Bold Star Ventures
Broadband Venture Partners
Buena Venture Associates
Catapult Partners
CenterPoint Ventures
Colt Ventures
Covera Ventures
Cypress Growth Capital
Dallas Social Venture Partners
Dallas Venture Partners
Eastern Partners
Green Park & Golf Ventures
HO2 Partners
Hughes Ventures
Hunt BioVentures
Mark Cuban Companies
Mobility Ventures
Naya Ventures
Pangea’s Edge Holdings, Ltd.
Pepperwood Partners
Remeditex
Silver Creek Ventures
Texas Women Ventures
TI Ventures
Trailblazer Capital
Baylor Angel Network
Cowtown Angels
Dallas Angel Network
Dallas Ventures Angel Network
Dallas Women’s Venture Fund
Golden Seeds – Dallas
Lone Star Angels
North Texas Angel Network
Southwest Venture Forum
Texas Entrepreneur Network – Funding Forum
Texas Mezzanine Fund
WITH THE HELP OF
PRIVATE EQUITY GROWTH FUNDS, VENTURE CAPITAL & ANGEL GROUPS
D F W M E E T S U P04
FOR CREATIVES
AIGA DFW
Big Design Conference
Circles Conference
Creatives in Dallas
Dallas User Experience Group
Dribble Meetup
Refresh Dallas
WELD Creative Labs
DFW Usability Professionals Association
FOR DEVELOPERS
Big Android BBQ
Dallas Android Developers Group
Dallas IGDA
Dallas.JS
Dal Mob
Dallas Maker Space
Dallas Ruby Brigade
DevOps Live
DFW Big Data
DFW Pythoneers
DFW Scrum
Drupal Developer Group
Front Porch
GeekMeet Dallas
HackerNest DFW
HTML5 User Group
iPhone Developers Group
Lone Star PHP Conference
North Dallas Cloud Computing Group
Red Oak Hackerspace
FOR ENTREPRENEURS
1 Million Cups
BioCenter Dallas
CEO Netweavers
CoFounders Lab
Dallas Entrepreneur Network
Dallas New Tech
Dallas Startup Weekend
Dallas Startup Happy Hour
DigitalDumbo Dallas
EWomenNetwork
Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)
Health 2.0
Health Industry Council
House of Genius
LaunchDFW
Metroplex Technology Business Council
Mobile Monday Dallas
NEXT Dallas (powered by Google for Entrepreneurs)
North Texas RCIC
Open Coffee Club
SCORE Dallas
Startup Grind Dallas
TechCocktail Dallas
Texchange Dallas
TiE Dallas
Untyed
VentureSpur Happy Hours
FOR MARKETERS
4A’s Dallas Council
Dallas Internet Marketing and SEO
DFW AMA
DFW IMA
DFW Wordpress Meetup
Emerging Tech Conference
Social Media Club of Dallas
Results Oriented Web
EVENTS CALENDAR
launchdfw.com/events-calendar/
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