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 Dallas firm's latest bets: Airspace security and multi-vendor IT support. Cypress Growth Capital adds AirSight and Xcelocloud to its roster, boosting local innovation.
To keep pace with modern media consumption, Dallas-based AT&T, the NBA and WNBA are launching the fourth-generation High-Speed Arena Network (HSAN). The new technology is designed to move live game content, highlights, replays, stats and in-arena programming more quickly and reliably for fans and business partners....
Irving-based 7-Eleven added to its intellectual property with a pair of patents the week of Sept. 29. The patents relate to its ongoing work on inventory tracking and computer-vision item recognition....
Dallas-based fintech startup Zippy, a lender and loan servicer for manufactured homes, raised $20 million in a Series C round.
Zippy said the money, all from New York-based alternative investment firm Saluda Grade, will enable it to broaden its national presence, improve its technology and build its network of partnerships....
To keep pace with modern media consumption, Dallas-based AT&T, the NBA and WNBA are launching the fourth-generation High-Speed Arena Network (HSAN). The new technology is designed to move live game content, highlights, replays, stats and in-arena programming more quickly and reliably for fans and business partners....
Irving-based 7-Eleven added to its intellectual property with a pair of patents the week of Sept. 29. The patents relate to its ongoing work on inventory tracking and computer-vision item recognition....
Dallas-based fintech startup Zippy, a lender and loan servicer for manufactured homes, raised $20 million in a Series C round.
Zippy said the money, all from New York-based alternative investment firm Saluda Grade, will enable it to broaden its national presence, improve its technology and build its network of partnerships....