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.
Unexpected Products portfolio company Shaken Beverage Co. is about to launch Toucan Cocktails—a patent-pending two-can beverage with premium spirits in one can and all-natural mix in the other, and a built-in "shaker" system. With support from Morrison Seger VC Partners and a stellar new leadership lineup, a nationwide "shake-up" is one month away.
Irving-based consumer goods giant Kimberly-Clark Corp. patented a technology platform that transforms plant fibers from hesperaloe, a drought-tolerant succulent, into sustainable material.
The process of converting hesperaloe into usable fiber for paper products remains in the early stages, Kimberly-Clark said in a statement....
The National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation recently tapped former tech executive and Army veteran Troy Bertram as CEO to spearhead its next chapter of growth.
The National Medal of Honor Museum, which opened last year in Arlington, was named the nation’s top new museum by USA Today....
Astromech, the evolutionary biology AI company that spun out of Colossal Biosciences, has closed an additional $20 million in funding. To date, the company has raised $60 million and reports its valuation at $3.8 billion....
Irving-based consumer goods giant Kimberly-Clark Corp. patented a technology platform that transforms plant fibers from hesperaloe, a drought-tolerant succulent, into sustainable material.
The process of converting hesperaloe into usable fiber for paper products remains in the early stages, Kimberly-Clark said in a statement....
The National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation recently tapped former tech executive and Army veteran Troy Bertram as CEO to spearhead its next chapter of growth.
The National Medal of Honor Museum, which opened last year in Arlington, was named the nation’s top new museum by USA Today....
Astromech, the evolutionary biology AI company that spun out of Colossal Biosciences, has closed an additional $20 million in funding. To date, the company has raised $60 million and reports its valuation at $3.8 billion....