News & Insights from TechFW

Kristen first came to know the TechFW campus through the Fort Worth Business Plan Competition with our neighbors at the Devoyd Jennings Business Assistance Center. Kristen is a Fort Worth-based professional artist specializing in large-scale public art, illustration, and graphic design. It is bold, approachable, and deeply rooted in the community that helped shape her career. That spirit felt familiar when we invited her back to the campus in a new creative role.

On Jan. 2, 2015, a FedEx envelope arrived with termination papers ending my career as an executive at Alcon. For me, the choice was simple: take another corporate job or bet on myself. I bet on myself. And the bet was on ear wax.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and at TechFW, we believe in a holistic founder approach. Building a company is one of the most psychologically demanding things a human being can do. Antonia Rosinia, an executive coach and organizational development professional based in Fort Worth, works directly with TechFW founders and emerging leaders. TechFW is proud to be the only incubator program in DFW actively prioritizing mental health for our founders.

This month, we sat down with the team behind NSpire Medical Technologies, where a lifetime of engineering expertise meets a career path that includes everything from BBQ pit master to debate judge. Entrepreneurs Richard (Rick) and Ricky Gillespie are working to bring NSpire products to market. The first two are a dual-cartridge syringe for compounded drugs and an in-home autoinjector in which the needle is never seen.

Meet Brooke Hipps, founder of Weekend Will, an estate planning platform designed to make it easy for people to create, manage and continuously update their wills. Brooke Hipps joined TechFW as a SmartStart incubator client as she was building the foundation for her company. It felt fresh. Necessary. Untouched. Like standing on the edge of something no one else had quite seen yet. But luckily, she joined a community to help her navigate the unknowns ahead in her journey as a f

When Reannah Wyatt joined the Smart Start business launch program at TechFW last year, she was looking to add the finishing touches and begin to grow her early revenue residential real estate platform. What she found was a launching pad and a support system like nothing else she had experienced. Her Real Time App simplifies real estate transactions for Realtors and their clients, allowing them to effortlessly manage documents, timelines, tasks, and vendors in one seamless p

As we close out 2025, we’re feeling one thing more than anything: proud. Proud of the founders who kept showing up. Proud of the partners who rolled up their sleeves. Proud of a Fort Worth innovation community that feels more connected and more ambitious by the month. At TechFW, our members are the lifeblood of this organization. And this year, they proved what happens when grit meets guidance.

UNT Health Fort Worth recently renewed and expanded its partnership with TechFW to advance technology commercialization, support early-stage innovators and strengthen the region’s growing health innovation ecosystem.