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Sensori, co-founded by Shanna Watkins Pearre, Darean Rhodes, and Ashlyn Knox (far left), and The Blueprint University, an entrepreneurship hub founded by Kaila Cherie Wright (far right), are among five finalists in AT&T's 2025 Small Business Contest. Also pictured: Bold Crumb House (Detroit), Nourish + Bloom Market (Fayetteville, Georgia), and SOJO Coffee Company (Los Angeles). [Composite image: DI Studio; Sources: berya113/istock, photos courtesy of AT&T.]
Two Dallas Startups Named Finalists in National AT&T Small Business Contest
by Quincy Preston | Nov 25, 2025
Sensori and The Blueprint University are among five finalists selected from more than 11,000 applicants nationwide. The $50,000 grand prize winner will be announced in January.
by David Seeley |
Nov 20, 2025
McKinney's Cherie Turner took the top prize and won the people's choice award for her startup, which designs healthcare workers' scrubs specifically for breastfeeding and pumping moms.
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![Among the leaders of the 2025 Venture Dallas Startup of the Year winners are BILT Inc. President and COO Ahmed Qureshi and Chairman and CEO Nate Henderson; Worlds CEO Dave Copps; and StableCore CEO Alex Treece and COO Nick Elledge. [Composite image: DI Studio]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Venture-Dallas-2025-Startup-of-the-Year-Award-360x203.jpeg)
by Quincy Preston |
Nov 20, 2025
Breakout winners—and a $2B VC year—show how far the region’s ecosystem has come. Here are the 2025 winners and honorees, plus takeaways from a private dinner with Susser Bank and Nasdaq executives at the Petroleum Club.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Nov 19, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 14 with a total of 139 patents granted.
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Catherine Cuellar [Composte image: DI Studio; Sources: Catherine Cuellar/LinkedIn, Chuhail/ Koshenyamka/istockphoto]
SVP Dallas Names Catherine Cuellar as Its Next CEO
by Quincy Preston | Nov 18, 2025
A familiar figure in Dallas arts, civic innovation, and public service, Cuellar will succeed longtime CEO Tony Fleo following a months-long search as Social Venture Partners Dallas plans its next 25 years.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 16, 2025
The North Texas company is scaling its intelligent instruction platform across manufacturing, defense, and field service, backed by a new Air Force contract and rising enterprise adoption.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Nov 12, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 7 with a total of 117 patents granted.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 11, 2025
Curve’s Plano-born founder and CEO, Ritish Patnaik, says "chronic diseases are on the rise, and healthcare costs are skyrocketing as a result." From its newly established HQ at Pegasus Park in Dallas, Curve will use the funding to advance the clinical validation and commercialization of its Whole-Body Intelligence platform, with a goal of "transforming" chronic disease monitoring.
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Andy Tang (left), a partner at Draper Associates, and Bobby Franklin, CEO of the National Venture Capital Association, speak onstage at Venture Dallas. [Photo: Grant Miller Photography/Venture Dallas]
‘There’s So Much Energy in Our Space’: Innovators, Investors Invigorate Sold-Out 2025 Venture Dallas Conference
by Glenn Hunter | Nov 5, 2025
From North Texas founders including John Carmack and Ben Lamm to investors like John Redgrave of DTX Ventures and Draper’s Andy Tang, the summit's speakers tackled hot topics from humanoid robots and tech transfer to AI, VC trends and Y’all Street. A call was also heard for more risk-taking by DFW’s innovation ecosystem: ‘We’ve got to be bravery hunters.’
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by Quincy Preston |
Nov 5, 2025
Cait Brumme says the event at Dallas' Pegasus Park on Nov. 6 will explore the technologies and economic forces defining the future for entrepreneurs and innovators.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Nov 5, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Sept. 30 with a total of 119 patents granted.
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by Quincy Preston |
Nov 4, 2025
The de-extinction startup is adding more than two decades of commercial cloning expertise to its portfolio with its first acquisition.
Days before the announcement, CEO Ben Lamm laid out his playbook at Venture Dallas 2025: run toward critics, treat promises to middle-America classrooms as seriously as commitments to investors—and spin out businesses worth more than $100 million.
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Rendering of the Raider 330 drone being developed by Delta Black Aerospace. [Video still: Delta Black]
North Texas’ Delta Black Aerospace Partners With Taqtile to Modernize Maintenance for Military Drones
by David Seeley | Oct 30, 2025
McKinney-based Delta Black is developing its flagship platform, the RAIDER 330 drone, to be "the mission-ready tactical UAS modern warfighters demand." Now the company is collaborating with Seattle's Taqtile "to redefine how advanced military systems are maintained at the tactical edge."
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by David Seeley |
Oct 30, 2025
The company says its Vāsuki Robotic System provides "unprecedented vision and control to the gastroenterologist," making GI screening "safer, faster, and easier." Its seed round was co-led by Dr. Fred Moll, co-founder of Intuitive Surgical, the $192 billion company that invented the da Vinci robotic surgical system.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 28, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Sept. 23 with a total of 146 patents granted.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 28, 2025
Uptiq.ai said the funding will be used to drive large-scale adoption of Uptiq Qore, the company’s next-generation AI infrastructure platform, and make it accessible to financial institutions of all sizes.
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