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.
Matt Sommer has spent 25 years in key aspects of managing and growing organizations, including fostering innovation, pioneering and evangelizing product vision, and leveraging data and analytics. Sommer, an AI expert with 10 patents, believes that if technology is doing its job in marketing, "you shouldn't even know it's there."
The future of logistics isn’t being built in Silicon Valley. It’s being built in Fort Worth.
Hillwood’s decades-long commitment to AllianceTexas—anchored by public-private partnerships, infrastructure investment, and a clear-eyed view of what next-generation supply chains would require—created the foundation for what’s happening today....
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Electric mobility is about more than battery range now. As EVs become part of everyday life, people want the experience to feel simple and reassuring, whether they are finding a charger, checking their vehicle status, making a payment, or getting help when they need it....
South Korean electronics giant Samsung has confirmed that it will relocate its U.S. headquarters from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, to Plano, the home of its flagship North Texas campus. The move could bring with it around 1,000 relocated jobs, according to multiple reports....
Dallas-based MoneyGram has launched its own U.S. dollar stablecoin, MGUSD, as the foundation of a growing suite of financial services throughout its global network. The company said that as it builds its payments infrastructure on blockchain, MGUSD will serve as “the connective tissue” to power services for families sending money across borders and for billions of people underserved by traditional finance....
The future of logistics isn’t being built in Silicon Valley. It’s being built in Fort Worth.
Hillwood’s decades-long commitment to AllianceTexas—anchored by public-private partnerships, infrastructure investment, and a clear-eyed view of what next-generation supply chains would require—created the foundation for what’s happening today....
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....
Electric mobility is about more than battery range now. As EVs become part of everyday life, people want the experience to feel simple and reassuring, whether they are finding a charger, checking their vehicle status, making a payment, or getting help when they need it....
South Korean electronics giant Samsung has confirmed that it will relocate its U.S. headquarters from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, to Plano, the home of its flagship North Texas campus. The move could bring with it around 1,000 relocated jobs, according to multiple reports....
Dallas-based MoneyGram has launched its own U.S. dollar stablecoin, MGUSD, as the foundation of a growing suite of financial services throughout its global network. The company said that as it builds its payments infrastructure on blockchain, MGUSD will serve as “the connective tissue” to power services for families sending money across borders and for billions of people underserved by traditional finance....