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Valor finds the oil money that paperwork forgot
A producing well can send checks and still leave royalties unpaid. Valor pairs mineral specialists with its own software to find the gaps, fix the records, and keep owners in the picture.
How Kearley Made Credit-Union Marketing a 45-Year Business
The Fort Worth agency found its edge before most firms found their niche: learn one complicated industry deeply, then connect every customer touchpoint to an outcome the C-suite can understand.
The DEC Network Is Betting $2.4 Million on the Founders Next Door
At a former Southern Dallas mall, The DEC Network puts desks, mentors and business training within reach. Its bigger experiment is whether a neighborhood address can widen the circle of people who get to build a business.
The Texas Company Quietly Behind the Flashlight in Your Junk Drawer
It doesn't put its name on a single box. But NEBO, HALO, TRUE and Thaw sit in 50,000 stores - and Alliance Consumer Group owns all of them.
The Biotech Map Has a Middle - and Bios Partners Is Betting on It
From a Fort Worth office, Bios Partners is testing a contrarian idea: great science is spread across America even when venture money is not. Its portfolio turns that geography lesson into a working investment strategy.
The Company That Turned a Dead Battery Into an 80-Year Business
For 79 years Schumacher Electric has sold the same quiet promise - your battery will not leave you stranded. The bet now is that the promise scales from a dead sedan to an electric car.
American Airlines Is a City in the Sky - and Loyalty Is Its Most Valuable Runway
American moves more than 200 million people a year, but the seat is only the beginning. Behind every boarding pass sits a carefully timed network, a loyalty currency, a cargo hold and a century of operational bets.
Conner Industries, Inc.
Conner Industries is a Fort Worth, Texas manufacturer and distributor of industrial lumber and custom, mixed-material packaging - wood pallets, crates, skids, foam, corrugate and plastic. Founded in 1981, it has grown into one of the largest players in U.S. industrial wood, running roughly 18 manufacturing sites across 14 states and reporting revenue near $200 million. Under CEO David Dixon, the company has pivoted from a commodity lumber business into an integrated packaging platform, using a string of acquisitions to add engineered protective packaging, foam fabrication and logistics services like 3PL, VMI and kitting.
Simpli.fi
Simpli.fi is a Fort Worth, Texas-based advertising technology company that built one of the industry's leading programmatic demand-side platforms (DSP) on unstructured data rather than pre-packaged audience segments. Its Advertising Success Platform combines programmatic media buying - across connected TV, mobile, display, video, native and audio - with agency management and workflow software used by more than 2,000 media teams, agencies and brands. Backed by Blackstone and GTCR at a $1.5 billion valuation, the company specializes in granular, localized, addressable targeting at scale.