Dallas Innovates and D CEO celebrated 68 honorees and revealed the winners of our fourth-annual Innovation Awards at an event held at On the Levee in the Dallas Design District.
Here's a full list of winners and finalists.
Now in its fourth year, the program from Dallas Innovates and D CEO honors 68 disruptors and trailblazers driving a new vision for innovation in North Texas.
Finalists will be recognized in the January/February issue of D CEO magazine and online at DallasInnovates.com. Winners will be revealed at an exclusive awards event in January.
Plus: 7-Eleven acquires last-mile delivery startup; American Heart Association invests in $43M healthcare innovation fund; Fort Worth real estate investors raise $32.4M for new fund; Dallas College Lands $8.8M to boost biotech workforce; UT Southwestern researchers land funding for hypothermia therapy study; and more North Texas deals.
SKU Dallas set up shop in North Texas in 2020, partnering with DFW CPG as a local arm of the Austin-based CPG-focused accelerator. It's graduated 12 companies since then, including local plant-based jerky brand All Y’alls Foods, along with Texas-based mmmpanadas and Meli’s Monster Cookies.
Now it's announced its third lineup of CPG startups. All female-founded, they range from a Brooklyn sexual wellness and body product company to a California-based Vietnamese cold-brew coffee brand.
In this week's roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you'll also find news from Cicis, Complexity Gaming, Digit7, Design Connect Create, Vaxxinity, and more.
The Irving-based convenience store chain is partnering with robotics company Nuro to deliver goods to customers' doors in Mountain View, via autonomous Priuses. Nuro was the first autonomous vehicle company to receive a deployment permit from the California DMV in December 2020.
Now in its third year, the program from Dallas Innovates and D CEO honors 78 disruptors and trailblazers driving a new vision for innovation in North Texas.
Dak is teaming up with Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster and Fox Sports NFL sideline reporter Erin Andrews to lead the Superfan Influencer Team. 7-Eleven's goal: draft and train NFL fans across the country to hone their social media influencer skills—with $11,000 "signing bonuses" and a 2-day "training camp."
7-Eleven's expanded supply of direct current fast charging (DCFC) ports for electric vehicles will give it one of the largest, most compatible fast-charging footprints of any U.S. retailer, the company says. It's just one of 7-Eleven's efforts to build a sustainable future.
Coming to 7-Eleven's Evolution Store on Park Lane and Abrams Road is the first-ever Laredo Taco Company drive-thru restaurant. It marks the latest innovation at one of the Irving-based retailer's 'lab stores,' an experiential testing ground for patrons to try new concepts.
Founded in 2017, Plano-based Stryve—the company behind convenience snack biltong, a better, healthier alternative to beef jerky—is making big moves. 7-Eleven veteran Scott McCombs joins the executive team as the air-dried meat maker merges with Andina Acquisition Corp. and eyes a new ticker on NASDAQ.
Coppell-based Smoothie King is the latest North Texas brand to send its top executive undercover to see what truly happens on the front lines. Tune in Oct. 23 on CBS (and get an early sneak peek with our photo gallery).
For the third annual 7-Eleven Brands with Heart event (this year held virtually), emerging brands will pitch to 7-Eleven leaders, attend workshops, and network. The application to participate is due Oct. 1.
You’ll also find news from 7-Eleven, Riata Capital Group, Adeptus Health, the Amynta Group, and Momentus Institute in this roundup of personnel and leadership news by companies and organizations with ties to North Texas.
Tech genius John Carmack has turned to an audacious new challenge: developing artificial general intelligence. The programming innovator believes we’re now half a dozen insights away from achieving AGI, a form of AI that goes beyond mimicking human intelligence to actually understanding things and solving problems....
North Texas’ resident tech genius, John Carmack, is taking aim now at his most ambitious target: solving the world’s biggest computer-science problem by developing artificial general intelligence. That’s a form of AI whose machines can understand, learn, and perform any intellectual task that humans can do....
Dallas- and Fort Worth-based Satori Capital has launched a new investment business focused on “transformational companies developing innovative solutions for mental health.”
Satori Neuro will target companies developing breakthrough treatments and disruptive business models to address “the world’s most critical mental health challenges,” Satori said....
Tech genius John Carmack has turned to an audacious new challenge: developing artificial general intelligence. The programming innovator believes we’re now half a dozen insights away from achieving AGI, a form of AI that goes beyond mimicking human intelligence to actually understanding things and solving problems....
North Texas’ resident tech genius, John Carmack, is taking aim now at his most ambitious target: solving the world’s biggest computer-science problem by developing artificial general intelligence. That’s a form of AI whose machines can understand, learn, and perform any intellectual task that humans can do....
Dallas- and Fort Worth-based Satori Capital has launched a new investment business focused on “transformational companies developing innovative solutions for mental health.”
Satori Neuro will target companies developing breakthrough treatments and disruptive business models to address “the world’s most critical mental health challenges,” Satori said....