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.
Quiltt Connector launched on Product Hunt this week. The fintech startup, which emerged from stealth in 2022, said that with a single line of code, its Connector helps businesses "go live" with leading account aggregation, transaction enrichment, and other financial APIs — no upfront engineering required.
Now in its third year, the program from Dallas Innovates and D CEO honors 78 disruptors and trailblazers driving a new vision for innovation in North Texas.
Dallas-based AI infrastructure startup Watter just rolled out a waste-heat-to-water platform for commercial buildings. Its first customer: Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion Tower.
Watter’s hardware captures heat from computer servers inside a commercial building and converts it to hot water for the building....
To grow production of critical munitions, Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin announced plans to add 2,000 new jobs in Texas and 4,000 more across the United States. It also will expand advanced manufacturing at its Grand Prairie Missiles and Fire Control campus by 185,000 square feet....
Dallas-based AI infrastructure startup Watter just rolled out a waste-heat-to-water platform for commercial buildings. Its first customer: Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion Tower.
Watter’s hardware captures heat from computer servers inside a commercial building and converts it to hot water for the building....
To grow production of critical munitions, Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin announced plans to add 2,000 new jobs in Texas and 4,000 more across the United States. It also will expand advanced manufacturing at its Grand Prairie Missiles and Fire Control campus by 185,000 square feet....