Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs

Nurses are breaking the mold to set out on their own

Tech platform Hydreight wants to help nurses go into business for themselves by being a turnkey solution.

B. David Zarley

Business

From CDs to NFTs: Starbucks’ surprising history of embracing new tech

Starbucks’ newly-announced blockchain platform is just the latest example of the chain’s early embracement of tech.

B. David Zarley

Inventions

This company turns food waste and mushrooms into building materials

UK-based company Biohm uses natural vegetative material like food waste and mushrooms to ‘grow’ insulation panels.

Victoria Masterson

Animals

Goodbye bug spray, try this bite-free clothing instead

Researchers created insecticide-free, mosquito-resistant clothing and tested it with actual bugs to confirm that it prevents mosquito bites

Teresa Carey

Series| Hard Reset

The underdog challenging McDonald’s and Wall Street

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Everytable is scaling access to wealth through a healthy fast food revolution.

Stephen Johnson

Series| Challengers

The startup turning human ashes into diamonds

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By turning ashes into diamonds, Eterneva is creating a new way to carry the memory of our loved ones with us long after their death.

Jack Berning

Apps

Y Combinator launches a ‘Tinder for entrepreneurs’ to match startup co-founders

Famed accelerator hopes to make it easier for founders to find each other.

Jesse Damiani

Entrepreneurs

Why waterless beer is the future

A new beer startup is creating concentrated beer by temporarily removing the water to reduce the carbon footprint during shipping.

Teresa Carey

Entrepreneurs

Startup makes breast milk in a lab, which could replace formula

BioMilk, a food technology firm, has invented cultured breast milk that they hope will not only replace formula but even rival the real deal.

Teresa Carey

Series| Ramen Profitable

‘Liquid Death’ canned water — a thrilling alternative to plastic

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In partnership with Million Stories

Liquid Death is shifting consumer mindsets toward canned water through radically imaginative marketing that is frightening to some, but entertaining to most.

Jack Berning

Series| Ramen Profitable

How renegade museum tours became a multimillion dollar business

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In partnership with Million Stories

Museum Hack is reimagining museum tours as we know them, by delivering storylines about art, culture, and history in a way that’s interactive — and highly entertaining.

Jack Berning

Agriculture

Microfarm startup brings fresh produce to food desert

California startup Crop Swap LA has planted a “microfarm” in an LA resident’s front yard and is now distributing the crops throughout the local community.

Kristin Houser

Startups

10-minute grocery delivery service to debut in U.S.

German grocery delivery startup Gorillas, which delivers orders within 10 minutes, is bringing its ultra-fast operation to the U.S.

Kristin Houser

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