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.
With wall-to-wall LED screens and the latest advances in AI, digital display, motion tracking, and object detection, Lumin Fitness launched its first "prototype" studio in Las Colinas last fall. Its new franchise agreement with Houston-based Verge Fit Holdings is meant to be just the start of growing the brand into the future.
Bean, a former CEO of Dallas-based Gold’s Gym, and Omeed Shams, previously chief executive at Coppell’s gaming app Kwest, founded Lumin Fitness in 2019. Last month we told you the story behind their pioneering fitness studio and franchise concept, which debuted to the public on Sept. 9 at a 2,600-square-foot space in Las Colinas.
Dallas-based Lumin Fitness—after four years of R&D focused on hyperpersonalized, gamified workouts—is opening its prototype studio to the public. Now co-founders Brandon Bean and Omeed Shams are eying franchise partnerships to expand their category-opening concept that leverages tech and innovation to 'make fitness fun.'
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....
Dallas-Fort Worth is charting its own path in artificial intelligence. From applied AI to research and engineering advances, our region leads in advancing real-world solutions. Behind every breakthrough and solution are the people making it happen....
A bicycle-pedestrian trail being built alongside DART’s recently opened Silver Line is moving closer to completion after the project received a financial boost from the state. The Texas Transportation Commission recently awarded Dallas Area Rapid Transit $25 million for construction of Phase 3A of the Cotton Belt Trail as part of a statewide effort to improve active transportation infrastructure through the Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Program....
Dallas-based Mynd Immersive aims to redefine the future of aging in Texas and beyond through the company’s “connection-boosting” Great American Elderverse virtual reality experiences. Now the company is expanding its technology to senior living and skilled nursing communities across the state Texas....
Dallas-based hydrogen technology company DirectH2—a startup backed by HL Energy Ventures, the Hunt Energy spinout—has set its sights on expansion in India.
DirectH2 is developing what it calls “game changing” modular direct solar-to-green hydrogen technology....
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....
Dallas-Fort Worth is charting its own path in artificial intelligence. From applied AI to research and engineering advances, our region leads in advancing real-world solutions. Behind every breakthrough and solution are the people making it happen....
A bicycle-pedestrian trail being built alongside DART’s recently opened Silver Line is moving closer to completion after the project received a financial boost from the state. The Texas Transportation Commission recently awarded Dallas Area Rapid Transit $25 million for construction of Phase 3A of the Cotton Belt Trail as part of a statewide effort to improve active transportation infrastructure through the Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Program....
Dallas-based Mynd Immersive aims to redefine the future of aging in Texas and beyond through the company’s “connection-boosting” Great American Elderverse virtual reality experiences. Now the company is expanding its technology to senior living and skilled nursing communities across the state Texas....
Dallas-based hydrogen technology company DirectH2—a startup backed by HL Energy Ventures, the Hunt Energy spinout—has set its sights on expansion in India.
DirectH2 is developing what it calls “game changing” modular direct solar-to-green hydrogen technology....