TIME’s 2025 covers feature star power—with Ryan Reynolds of Maximum Effort and Waymo’s co-CEOs front and center. But the list also includes standout innovation coming straight out of Dallas.
While TIME put Maximum Effort and Waymo on its 2025 worldwide covers, Dallas future-shaping companies are in the mix. Two are Dallas-based. Another Texas company—now a $2B brand—got its start here, too.
What companies are finding funding or having a big exit? From startup investments to grants and acquisitions, Dallas Innovates tracks what’s happening in North Texas money.
Colossal launched last September with a plan to "de-extinct" the woolly mammoth by using CRISPR genetic engineering to create a mammoth-elephant hybrid.
With a total raise of $75 million to date, the startup aims to
have its first set of mammoth-elephant hybrid calves "in 4 to 6 years," co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm told us. But Colossal's goals extend much further—with the potential "to advance human health, enhance food production, reduce environmental impact, and optimize animal health and welfare."
Fort Worth-based Range Resources (NYSE: RRC) has agreed to be acquired by Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based EQT (NYSE: EQT). The $13 billion all-stock deal would bolster EQT’s status as the country’s No. 1 natural gas producer....
Addison-based Firehawk Defense has reached unicorn status, closing a more than $150 million Series D funding round with a valuation of more than $1.4 billion.
Boston-based Advent International and West Palm Beach, Florida-based Rochefort Asset Management were the lead investors....
Fort Worth-based Range Resources (NYSE: RRC) has agreed to be acquired by Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based EQT (NYSE: EQT). The $13 billion all-stock deal would bolster EQT’s status as the country’s No. 1 natural gas producer....
Addison-based Firehawk Defense has reached unicorn status, closing a more than $150 million Series D funding round with a valuation of more than $1.4 billion.
Boston-based Advent International and West Palm Beach, Florida-based Rochefort Asset Management were the lead investors....