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

Disaster Response

This big wave surfer is changing how we fight wildfires

Fire retardant spray contains toxins that are harmful to the environment and first responders, but Jeff Denholm is looking to change that.

B. David Zarley

Female Leaders

Women are finally reinventing the speculum

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The vaginal speculum was invented by a man, and hasn’t been redesigned in almost 200 years. This group of women is making it more user-friendly for all.

Jess Dais

Startups

Prosthetics as fashion: designers transform prosthetic leg covers into wearable art

Alleles is a premier boutique where amputees can be fitted for fashionable limb covers that make their prosthetic limbs stylish and eye-catching. These designers hope their fashions will help reduce the stigma that comes with prosthetics.

Teresa Carey

Food

The first GMO salmon is coming to a store near you

After a 30-year struggle, Atlantic salmon modified with a growth hormone gene from Chinook salmon has been approved by the FDA. Its producers say it solves problems related to climate change, ocean pollution, and food scarcity. Skeptics call it playing god. Both call it the Frankenfish.

Amelia Jaycen

Series| Catalysts

The lost art of apprenticeship

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In partnership with Stand Together

After his dad died, he struggled in high school and ended up getting a DUI. Stuck in dead-end jobs, he responded to a nonprofit’s post for free skilled labor training - and his whole life changed.

Transportation

A quiet revolution in trucking

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In partnership with SAP

She’s a veteran, a single mom, and a trucker, who used to have to wait around for hours for her cargo. Now, a revolutionary solution from SAP and Uber Freight is getting her back on the road and home to her son sooner.

Startups

Introducing Freethink

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We’re reimagining media for a generation that’s changing the world.

Meet Civil, the startup that wants to save journalism with the blockchain

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Can the blockchain fight fake news, restore trust in the media, and save a dying a industry?

Afghanistan’s first female tech CEO

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Despite getting death threats from the Taliban, Roya Mahboob realized her dream of a successful career in tech.

Failing

Let's talk about failure

Are we fetishizing failure? What are the costs of failing? How do we bounce back after it inevitably happens?

Mike Riggs

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