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AtmostAir and RGF report sales increases of three to five times since the beginning of the pandemic.

Mariana Matus (l) and Newsha Ghaeli, founders of Biobot

Could We Test For Coronavirus In Sewer Systems, Tracking The Spread? MIT Entrepreneurs Have A Solution That Could Work

Mariana Matus (l) and Newsha Ghaeli, founders of Biobot As the deadly cracks in our public health system have become...

A Missouri Biotech Can Test For Coronavirus In The Air. Why Isn’t The Technology Being Deployed In The US?

Coronavirus (COVID-19) A small Drexel, Missouri-based company is selling devices to detect coronavirus in the air to public health agencies...

A Pair Of Social Entrepreneurs Start To Win In The Daycare Disruption Space

by Joel Berg

Elizabeth Szymanski (right) and Erica Mackey Wes Selke was keen to invest in childcare startup MyVillage based on his experience...

Max.ng Was On A Roll, Until The Lagos Government Shifted Gears

Max.ng driver Adeolaniyan Pedro Oluwaseun Adeolaniyan Pedro Oluwaseun has been driving an okada, a motorbike taxi, in Lagos, Nigeria, for...

No Outside Developer Had Worked In OKC’s East Side For 35 Years. Then, An Unlikely Team Stepped Up.

Part of a series on right-sizing capital Jill Castilla had just driven under the giant railroad trestle on Broadway Extension...

A Powerful Egyptian Woman Led A $670 Million Health Care IPO

Few people, even in Egypt, have heard of Hend El Sherbini. But she built a publicly held lab company with...

How A Turkish Startup Focused On Autism Education Reached A Global Market

by Anne Field

Otsimo's founder Zafer Elcik with his younger brother, Alper. Hasan Zafer Elcik’s little brother Alper was diagnosed with severe autism...

The 80-Year-Old Investor Behind Some Of The World’s Biggest Health Data Companies

John Sculley has invested in Zeta Global, RxAdvance, Celularity, PeopleTicker, Lantern Credit and FlexPharma, among others. John Sculley is often...

An Oakland Entrepreneur Takes A Real Shot At Reducing Gun Violence