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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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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

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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 BACKLOTbacklotfw.co

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2009 Id So�ware to Zenimax

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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

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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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