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.
Most recently, Mike Rufail was chief gaming officer and co-owner of Dallas-based OpTic Gaming and CEO of Dallas-based Envy Gaming, which he founded in 2007. He joins early-stage company TradeOff Financial Corp., which aims to build an online, multiplayer stock and crypto trading game and merit-based social network that gamifies trading education for users.
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Irving-based Sow Good (Nasdaq: SOWG), a leading freeze-dried food and candy manufacturer, has completed a series of moves designed to “strengthen its liquidity position, transition the business to a more asset-light operating model, and provide flexibility as the company continues operating its candy business while evaluating growth opportunities and broader strategic alternatives.”...
“Retail follows rooftops, and today’s grocers are expanding.”
Bob Young
Executive Managing Director
Weitzman
…on why Dallas-Fort Worth leads the nation in new retail construction, speaking at Weitzman’s 36th annual retail forecast at the George W....
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....
Irving-based Sow Good (Nasdaq: SOWG), a leading freeze-dried food and candy manufacturer, has completed a series of moves designed to “strengthen its liquidity position, transition the business to a more asset-light operating model, and provide flexibility as the company continues operating its candy business while evaluating growth opportunities and broader strategic alternatives.”...
“Retail follows rooftops, and today’s grocers are expanding.”
Bob Young
Executive Managing Director
Weitzman
…on why Dallas-Fort Worth leads the nation in new retail construction, speaking at Weitzman’s 36th annual retail forecast at the George W....