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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Trane Technologies, a global climate-control innovator based in Swords, Ireland, has agreed to acquire LiquidStack, a top provider of liquid cooling technology for data centers.
Headquartered in Carrollton, LiquidStack said its solutions are designed to meet the hefty demands of generative AI and hyperscale computing....
Irving-based Flowserve Corporation, a leading provider of flow control products and services for global infrastructure markets, has agreed to acquire Glasgow, Scotland-based Trillium Flow Technologies’ Valves Division (TVD) for $490 million in cash....
RJW Logistics Group, an Illinois-based provider of retail logistics solutions for CPG companies, has opened its third warehouse in the Dallas area.
Since entering the Dallas market with the opening of its first warehouse in 2023 and second in 2024 — both in Mesquite — the company said it has accelerated the strategic expansion of its Southern consolidation hub, strengthening coast-to-coast operations....
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....
Trane Technologies, a global climate-control innovator based in Swords, Ireland, has agreed to acquire LiquidStack, a top provider of liquid cooling technology for data centers.
Headquartered in Carrollton, LiquidStack said its solutions are designed to meet the hefty demands of generative AI and hyperscale computing....
Irving-based Flowserve Corporation, a leading provider of flow control products and services for global infrastructure markets, has agreed to acquire Glasgow, Scotland-based Trillium Flow Technologies’ Valves Division (TVD) for $490 million in cash....
RJW Logistics Group, an Illinois-based provider of retail logistics solutions for CPG companies, has opened its third warehouse in the Dallas area.
Since entering the Dallas market with the opening of its first warehouse in 2023 and second in 2024 — both in Mesquite — the company said it has accelerated the strategic expansion of its Southern consolidation hub, strengthening coast-to-coast operations....