Faces of Invention

(Kathy Green – LinkedIn) For years, Kathy Green watched preventable mistakes happen in the chemical industry. To solve this problem, she created CargoCheck®, which helps professionals safely deliver chemical cargo. The chemist and entrepreneur founded the company in 2020 and serves as its CEO. Green channeled her idea into a cloud-based softwareMore

(Samay – LinkedIn) Maria Artunduaga left her career in plastic surgery to found a medical technology company to prevent misdiagnosis-related deaths. Her company Samay was inspired by her grandmother Sylvia’s fatal struggle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This experience led her to invent Sylvee, an affordable, non-invasive device that uses acousticsMore

(Mehdi Mortazawy) Mehdi Mortazawy co-founded the med tech company Coredio with Yashar Vahedein to address one of the world’s largest healthcare issues — managing heart failure. The company is advancing cardiovascular care through its AI-driven, non-invasive monitoring technology that pairs patient devices with healthcare provider systems to track heart health in real-time.More

(Emily Hazelwood) Biologist Emily Hazelwood co-founded Blue Latitudes with scientist Amber Sparks as a marine environmental consulting firm developing cost-effective, sustainable solutions for environmental issues in the offshore energy industry. Blue Latitudes led the development of FishLAT (Fisheries Location Assessment Technology), a web-based spatial planning tool that connects fisheriesMore

(SunCulture) Samir Ibrahim is on a mission to create and distribute life-changing products to smallholder farmers in Africa. As the CEO of Kenya-based startup SunCulture — co-founded with Charles Nichols — he harnesses off-grid solar power to provide farmers with access to water, lighting, irrigation, and mobile charging.More

(Promethean Power Solutions) Scaling up the impact of innovative refrigeration for India’s smallholder farmers is the key goal of Promethean Power Systems’ CEO Jiten Ghelani. In 2007, Promethean Director Sorin Grama invented the company’s patented energy storage technology to help rural dairy farmers in India preserve milk whereMore

(Andrea Pais) Andrea Pais is an engineer, entrepreneur, and the CEO of Novel Microdevices, a startup that’s revolutionizing medical diagnostics. Founded in 2015 with her brother and Vice President of Engineering, Rohan Pais, the Baltimore, Maryland-based company is working to develop affordable, point-of-care testing solutions for a variety of pathogens. The siblingMore