Justin Lopas, left, co-founder of Austin-based Base Power, spoke with Salen Churi, founder and managing partner of Trust Ventures, during a morning session at the 2026 Venture Dallas conference. [Photo: Dallas Innovates]
Joe Lonsdale, Sen. John Cornyn and Base Power’s Justin Lopas were among the speakers making the case for growing in Texas at the sixth annual conference, held at Old Parkland in Dallas.
WATTER—a startup whose high-tech water heaters use wasted heat from compute devices to heat water in homes and businesses, while reducing demand on the grid—is one of 29 Pioneers finalists selected in this year's competition. Other finalists include Austin-based BASE Power, which expanded to Dallas last summer.
Aiming to serve as a "virtual power plant" to bolster the Texas grid, Base—co-founded by CEO Zach Dell, son of billionaire Dell founder Michael Dell—offers residential customers an all-in-one energy plan including a whole-home backup battery that can power homes during a blackout.
Co-founded by CEO Zach Dell—son of Dell Founder and CEO Michael Dell—Base Power is building distributed battery storage for both customers and the grid, one home at a time. It does that by providing energy to homes along with a backup battery that can be used for up to 24 hours in a blackout.
An industry coalition launched Nov. 2 to advocate for investment in data centers and other digital infrastructure — a fast-growing segment of the North Texas economy.
Dallas executives Marvin Singleton and Darren Grubb lead the Austin-based Texas Digital Infrastructure Alliance as co-executive directors....
Dallas entrepreneur Mark Cuban’s Radical Investments led a $4 million seed round for Dallas-based SpendRule. The startup’s AI-powered platform matches health care systems’ contracts and invoices. Zeal Capital Partners, based in Washington, D.C.,...
An industry coalition launched Nov. 2 to advocate for investment in data centers and other digital infrastructure — a fast-growing segment of the North Texas economy.
Dallas executives Marvin Singleton and Darren Grubb lead the Austin-based Texas Digital Infrastructure Alliance as co-executive directors....
Dallas entrepreneur Mark Cuban’s Radical Investments led a $4 million seed round for Dallas-based SpendRule. The startup’s AI-powered platform matches health care systems’ contracts and invoices. Zeal Capital Partners, based in Washington, D.C.,...