Dallas-Fort Worth

7 DFW Companies Land on Fast Company’s 2026 Most Innovative List as Texas Scores 26 Honorees
by | Mar 26, 2026
HKS made the top 50 from Dallas, while North Texas companies from Coppell to Frisco showed up across architecture, AI, healthcare, restaurants, media, and travel. Statewide, Austin led the way, with Houston, Midland, San Antonio, and others also earning spots.
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MrBeast Bets on Fortune Outside the Algorithm—and Dallas Is in the Mix
by | Jan 21, 2026
A campaign for "Beast Games" Season 2 is putting the Prime Video series inside fortune cookies across the U.S. and Europe. A limited number carry messages written by MrBeast himself, the No. 1 creator on YouTube for six years running.
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The Last Word: Texas Women’s Foundation CEO on New Census Data Showing DFW’s Gender Pay Gap
by | Jan 20, 2026
“So what’s incentivizing us if we are going to make considerably less than our male counterparts the more educated we get?”

Karen Hughes White
President and CEO
Texas Women’s Foundation
… on newly released Census data showing D-FW has the widest gender pay gap among U.S....

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DOE-Funded UTA Project Tackles Cooling Costs in AI Data Center Boom

by | Sep 29, 2025
UTA is part of a DOE-backed "moonshot" to cool the world’s AI infrastructure more sustainably—aiming to cut data center cooling energy from 40% to under 5% and slash the massive water use demanded by AI systems. The project includes partnering with next-gen liquid cooling tech startup, Austin-based Accelsius.
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Dallas Founder Bakes Up a New Playbook for Startups—With AI as the Main Ingredient
When her oven broke, Elizabeth McCalley pivoted from pies to platforms. Now her Dallas-based startup, StartStak.ai, is helping founders everywhere turn ideas into companies.
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Dallas Regional Chamber Offering Human Help to Talk to Machines 
by | Sep 15, 2025
AI seem overwhelming? Just go to office hours. 
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Dallas College Leads $5.7M Regional Effort to Expand Health Care Workforce Training
by | Aug 27, 2025
Four North Texas community colleges and the DFW Hospital Council will use a federal grant to expand training, boost equity, and meet the region’s growing demand for health care workers.
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Passive Design, Proactive Conversations—and a Win for Sustainable Architecture

The “Academy Award of Architecture”—the AIA Firm Award—recently went to Dallas-based LPA Design Studios. Ellen Mitchell, who directs the firm’s sustainability and applied research, sees the win as a shift toward broadening what award-winning design really means. Here’s how the firm is building modern, greener commercial spaces by starting with better questions.
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How a Dallas Nonprofit Is Launching Girls Into STEM
From oil spill experiments to AI-powered avatars, GEMS Camp gives girls hands-on experiences that build skills and a path to STEM. The camp, founded by a former teacher, has reached more than 1,300 participants—and 85% have pursued science, technology, engineering, or math in college.
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Dallas Energy Startup’s 3D Solar Towers Win Global Airport Innovation Prize
Founder Mohammed Nije grew up without electricity. Now his Dallas startup, Janta Power, is piloting his power-dense solar technology at DFW and airports worldwide—earning global recognition for a design he says uses less land, generates more power, and can lower energy costs.
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The Innovative Programs Bringing Invisible Differences Into View at DFW International
With more than 2,000 sunflower lanyards—worn by travelers who may need extra time, space, or support—already issued, and sensory rooms in development, DFW Airport is creating a travel experience that recognizes different needs and reduces stress for all kinds of travelers.
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How DeSoto Is Planning to Make Southern Dallas a Key Part of the Life Science Pipeline

The southern half of Dallas County is home to just over 1.05 million residents. That’s about 40% of the total number of people who call Dallas County home—and roughly 200,000 more than the entire population of San Francisco.

Coupled with the fact that Dallas-Fort Worth is emerging as a top life science market, as documented in a 2023 CBRE report, you can see why the DeSoto Development Corp....

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The Truth About M&A in Big D
Grant Thornton weighs in on perception versus reality of dealmaking in Dallas-Fort Worth. 
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Texas Launches Small Business Credit Initiative to Expand Access to Funding
A web portal for the Texas Small Business Credit Initiative goes live on Oct. 9. Small business owners, it's time to engage with your lenders to explore this new avenue for financial support.
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Nextdoor Co‑Founder Nirav Tolia on Creating Community, Building Teams, and Learning From Failure
by | Sep 21, 2023
During Dallas Startup Week, the entrepreneur and executive—a Highland Park resident who Yahoo employee No. 84 before founding multiple tech companies—said "successes will spawn more successes" in the North Texas startup ecosystem.
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