Cariloop is a Dallas-area health and wellness company that helps working caregivers manage the demands of caring for children, aging parents, and other loved ones. Sold to employers as a benefit, its Caregiver Support Platform pairs each family with a dedicated, licensed Care Coach and a secure portal for storing documents, finding and booking care providers, and navigating medical, financial, and legal questions. Founded in 2012 by Michael Walsh and Steven Theesfeld, the company has supported more than 300,000 families and raised roughly $43 million across seed through Series C rounds.
FieldPulse is a Dallas-based software company that builds an all-in-one field service management (FSM) platform for residential and commercial trade businesses - HVAC, plumbing, electrical, garage door, appliance repair and more. Founded in 2015 by Gabriel (Gabe) Pinchev, the platform combines scheduling, dispatching, CRM, estimating, invoicing, payments, inventory and reporting into a single web and mobile app, and now layers AI-driven tools (Operator AI and Chat AI) that answer calls and web chats 24/7 to book jobs automatically. Backed by roughly $79 million in total funding - including a $50 million Series C in August 2025 - FieldPulse positions itself as a flexible, customizable alternative to enterprise-heavy rivals like ServiceTitan and simpler tools like Jobber and Housecall Pro.
Highway is a Dallas-based logistics technology company that built the freight industry's Carrier Identity platform, verifying that the carrier a broker books is who they claim to be. Founded in 2022 by former TriumphPay CEO Jordan Graft, Highway connects a carrier's digital identity to its physical operations to stop double brokering, impersonation and freight fraud in real time. Its Identify, Connect and Monitor products - plus the newer Trusted Freight Exchange - serve more than 1,050 brokers, including 70 of the 100 largest freight brokers in the United States.
OneDay is a Dallas-based B2B SaaS company that helps businesses create, personalize, and automate short videos to build stronger customer relationships and drive sales. Originally built to capture and preserve the life stories of senior living residents, OneDay expanded its video storytelling technology into multifamily real estate and the funeral industry, and now leans on an AI video assistant called AVA for scriptwriting, teleprompting, automated delivery, and engagement analytics. The company partners with thousands of senior living communities across the U.S., U.K., and Canada and has raised roughly $24-25 million to date.
QSIC is an in-store audio platform that combines curated music, point-of-sale data and generative AI to help retailers and brands turn store audio into a measurable retail media channel. Its technology powers thousands of stores across three continents, pairing store-specific playlists with dynamically created, localized audio ads and closed-loop attribution so advertisers can tie in-store messaging back to sales.
Scoot is a Dallas-based B2B software company that runs an AI sales platform built on top of a customizable virtual meeting environment. Founded in 2017 as Preciate and rebranded to Scoot in 2023, the company puts real-time AI agents inside sales meetings, webinars, and events to coach reps, engage buyers, qualify leads, and automate CRM follow-up. Led by founder and CEO Ed Stevens, Scoot pitches itself as a more engaging, brand-able alternative to static tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams for go-to-market teams.
Stellar is a Dallas-based, technology-driven marketplace that connects property managers and homeowners with vetted local tradespeople to get home maintenance and repairs done right. Founded in 2016 as IFM Restoration and rebranded to Stellar in 2022, the company pairs software, AI and a network of thousands of contractors to resolve maintenance at scale, initially for the single-family rental industry and increasingly for homeowners across the U.S. Sun Belt. It serves major single-family rental operators and books repair appointments for homeowners across 30-plus markets.

Talkmap is a Dallas-based enterprise AI company that turns 100% of a contact center's customer conversations - calls and chats - into structured, real-time intelligence. Its Talkdiscovery platform combines patented AI, machine learning, and computational linguistics to automatically detect customer intent, sentiment, and emerging trends, then routes those insights to specialized AI assistants for retention, sales, compliance, coaching, and analysis. Founded in 2017 (originally as discourse.ai) and led by CEO Tim Moss with founder Jonathan Eisenzopf, the company serves large brands in telecom, banking, insurance, and healthcare, keeping customer data inside private cloud environments rather than sending it to third-party models.
TestFit is a Dallas-based real estate feasibility platform that uses configurator and generative-design algorithms to turn a raw parcel into a buildable site plan, unit mix, parking layout, cost estimate and pro forma in minutes instead of weeks. Founded in 2016 by Clifton Harness and Ryan Griege, it serves developers, architects, contractors, civil engineers and municipalities evaluating multifamily, industrial, retail and mixed-use projects, and has raised $22M including a $20M Series A in 2022.
Nickson (Nickson Living) is a Dallas-based startup that turns an empty rented apartment into a fully designed, fully furnished, move-in-ready home before the renter arrives. Renters pick a furniture package, take a style quiz and upload a floor plan; Nickson's designers build a custom layout and install specialists outfit the unit - down to silverware, sheets and artwork - in as little as three hours, all for a monthly subscription plus a one-time install fee. Founded by former real estate executive Cameron Johnson in 2017, the company raised a $12M Series A in 2021 and serves Texas metros and Oklahoma City.