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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.
Dallas-Fort Worth Innovation Breakthroughs Mark 2025 Awards
by Quincy Preston and David Seeley | Jan 21, 2025
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.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 25, 2024
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.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 12, 2024
At the U.N.'s recent AI for Good summit in Geneva, Day One was capped by a pitch competition featuring four startups from around the world, including Dallas-based Stemuli, a generative metaverse gaming platform that's "reimagining learning." Its founder and CEO Taylor Shead won the pitch—and now she's back home with other big goals in mind.
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by Glenn Hunter |
May 2, 2024
Dallas Innovates, the Dallas Regional Chamber, and Dallas AI have teamed up to launch the inaugural AI 75 list. The 2024 program honors the most significant people in AI in DFW in seven categories—the visionaries, creators, and influencers you need to know.
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From left: Calvin Waddy, Taylor Shead, and Roberto Inetti.
Three Dallas Entrepreneurs Among Google for Startups Black, Latino Founders Fund Recipients
by Lance Murray | Jul 13, 2023
The three Dallas startups are among 6 Texas businesses and 46 overall in the US awarded $150,000 from Google for Startups.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 26, 2023
Stemuli Founder and CEO Taylor Shead met two Los Angeles-area founders while participating in Jobs for the Future's Entrepreneur in Residence incubator. The three founders connected so strongly, they've now merged their companies with a shared goal of "providing career navigation tools to empower students with the skills needed to thrive in the 21st century economy."
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by Kevin Cummings |
May 17, 2022
Dallas-based STEMuli was founded by CEO Taylor Shead to create a gamified 'metaverse' where kids can earn tokens and have fun while they learn. Piloted since last summer at Dallas Hybrid Prep, it's given both remote and in-class learning an avatar-packed boost.
Now, with a new $3.25 million seed funding round, STEMuli aims to expand its metaverse platform in schools nationally.
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by Kevin Cummings |
May 17, 2022
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.
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An avatar for student "Sophie" enters a virtual classroom created by Dallas-based STEMuli Technology. [Image: STEMuli]
Dallas Education Foundation Created an ‘Educational Metaverse’ for DISD. It’s a Finalist for a $1M STOP Award
by David Seeley | Dec 7, 2021
The Dallas Education Foundation is being recognized for driving the creation of an “educational metaverse” for DISD. Developed by Dallas-based STEMuli Technology, the metaverse is currently being piloted at Dallas Hybrid Prep, the district’s first permanently hybrid school.
The STOP Awards, funded by Philadelphia benefactor Janine Yass, will provide a total of $3.5 million in prizes for exceptional educational responses during the COVID pandemic.
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by Dave Moore |
Oct 22, 2020
Microsoft and the Texas Education Agency are collaborating on digital skills programs statewide that tackle issues such as STEM engagement and talent pipeline growth.
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