2025 Innovation Award winners represent the cutting edge of North Texas innovation across industries. From left: Ben Lamm, Colossal Biosciences; Aurora; Bell; and Dave Copps, Worlds.
D CEO and Dallas Innovates' Innovation Award winners are working to resurrect extinct species, launching autonomous trucks, reinventing military aircraft, and bringing AI into the physical world—and that's just the beginning. The 2025 awards showcase game-changing achievements—including Texas' first newly minted decacorn—across 17 categories of innovation. Here’s a look at the innovators leading the way.
The Innovation Awards 2025 recognizes 76 companies and trailblazers paving the way for the future of innovation in North Texas. Here's who made the finalists list.
The award recognizes outstanding Bold Idea students who received hands-on learning and mentoring from volunteer industry professionals from top Dallas-area tech companies. The award winners
showed advanced computer science skills, built creative coding projects, and have big goals. See who won—and why one could make the FBI happy.
Some of the top players in the North Texas technology ecosystem were honored Thursday at the annual Tech Titans awards gala. Fujitsu North America CEO Doug Moore was inducted into the Tech Titans Hall of Fame, and Charlie Vogt, CEO of telecommunications firm DZS, won the Corporate CEO Award. The fastest-growing tech company award went to Fort Worth's TimelyMD.
"The need to come together as an industry, reconnect with friends, and build new business connections were really what this year’s awards gala was all about," said Tech Titans' Paul Bendel. See the full list of winners here.
To overcome tech's employment gap, a number of organizations in Dallas are providing free or affordable career training to children, women, and minorities.
Since 2015, Cause Studio has offered an incubator for early-stage nonprofits. In its newest program, it plans to create a workforce pipeline for nonprofit professionals.
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More than two years since generative AI exploded onto the radar of business leaders, the technology continues to mature. In 2025, AI is capable of driving real results across the enterprise....
Dallas-based VisionPoint Advisory Group and Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Navitas Wealth Advisors have merged to form Balefire, an SEC-registered investment adviser and wealth management firm “designed to meet the growing demand for integrated, high-capability financial and business advisory solutions for affluent individuals, families, and businesses.”...
Irving-based restaurant company On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina has been bought at auction by Houston-based Pappas Restaurants as the auction’s prevailing bidder.
The transaction, which is subject to court approval, is expected to be finalized and close in the coming weeks....
North Texas is a big place, with plenty to do, see, hear, and watch. We scour the internet every week to find events and activities for you. As always, things may change at any time, so be sure to check the official website or registration page for the latest details....
More than two years since generative AI exploded onto the radar of business leaders, the technology continues to mature. In 2025, AI is capable of driving real results across the enterprise....
Dallas-based VisionPoint Advisory Group and Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Navitas Wealth Advisors have merged to form Balefire, an SEC-registered investment adviser and wealth management firm “designed to meet the growing demand for integrated, high-capability financial and business advisory solutions for affluent individuals, families, and businesses.”...
Irving-based restaurant company On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina has been bought at auction by Houston-based Pappas Restaurants as the auction’s prevailing bidder.
The transaction, which is subject to court approval, is expected to be finalized and close in the coming weeks....
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