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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 David Seeley |
Apr 19, 2024
Dallas-based Stemuli's Founder and CEO Taylor Shead will now represent North America at the Innovation Factory World Competition in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 30. She also snagged a $200,000 prize package for her startup—a generative gaming platform that redefines continuous learning through immersive experiences and personalized pathways.
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L to R: Infinity.careers Founder Naomi Thomas, Stemuli Founder and CEO Taylor Shead, and Oppti Co-Founder Khiry Kemp. [Photo: Kathy Tran]
Dallas Edtech Startup Stemuli Announces Double Merger With Infinity.careers and Oppti
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 Quincy Preston |
Mar 16, 2023
These standouts—startup founders, tech pioneers, educators, creators, social innovators, and business leaders—are transforming entire industries and making waves in their respective fields.
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by Quincy Preston |
Mar 16, 2023
Meet the education innovators who are driving change in their communities and beyond. These forward-thinking individuals are among the Future 50 in Dallas-Fort Worth, our editors’ picks of trailblazers who are shaping the future in their industries.
From improving the learning experience with gamification to addressing high rates of principal turnover, these education innovators are disrupting the status quo with their groundbreaking solutions....
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by David Seeley |
Jul 22, 2022
A night of tech founder battles, raucous crowd roars, and BS-calling corporate refs will hit the Granada Theater on August 11. That's when Digital Fight Club returns to its in-person, party-fueled finest during Dallas Startup Week 2022. Ten top local tech leaders will go 1-on-1, fighting with their wits on five disruptive tech topics.
"We plan on breaking molds again," says Michael Pratt, the event's founder and host.
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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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