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.
Israel-based drone food delivery company Flytrex is partnering with Nash to build an autonomous-first delivery system across its Dallas-Fort Worth sites. Nash, a San Francisco-based autonomous logistics platform, will decide which orders fly and which go by road....
Two more carriers are putting driverless heavy-duty trucks on the busy Interstate 35 shipping route from Dallas to Laredo.
Pittsburgh-based Aurora Innovation has signed agreements with Buckeye, Arizona-based Value Truck and Brampton, Ontario-based Charger Logistics to deploy its second-generation driverless truck....
Israel-based drone food delivery company Flytrex is partnering with Nash to build an autonomous-first delivery system across its Dallas-Fort Worth sites. Nash, a San Francisco-based autonomous logistics platform, will decide which orders fly and which go by road....
Two more carriers are putting driverless heavy-duty trucks on the busy Interstate 35 shipping route from Dallas to Laredo.
Pittsburgh-based Aurora Innovation has signed agreements with Buckeye, Arizona-based Value Truck and Brampton, Ontario-based Charger Logistics to deploy its second-generation driverless truck....