Alison Van Houten

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Ember Technologies

These days, Ember does far more than make mugs that keep coffee warm. It's applying its temperature-regulating technology—with over 150 patents—to everything from baby bottles to the Ember Cube, the world’s first self-refrigerated, sensor-enabled, cloud-connected...

By Alison Van Houten

ThyssenKrupp Nucera

"If you want to protect the climate, there is no way around green hydrogen," ThyssenKrupp Nucera CEO Werner Ponikwar says. His company specializes in building high-efficiency alkaline water electrolyzers to power steel mills and other...

By Alison Van Houten

Watershed

After raising an additional $100 million this February, Watershed became the most valuable climate-software company on the planet. The subscription-based digital dashboard helps corporations easily measure emissions to not only report but also, critically, to...

By Alison Van Houten

CoreWeave

Amid the chip shortage, CoreWeave's hoard of high-powered graphics processing units made it one of the largest GPU-specialized cloud-service providers. "If you’re using AI in any part of your life—whether it’s ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot—there’s...

By Alison Van Houten

Nubank

In an increasingly digitized economy, the 1.4 billion people who live on cash alone are left behind. "You are completely marginalized," says David Vélez, CEO of Brazil-based Nubank, the world’s most valuable digital bank. Unable...

By Alison Van Houten

The Good Charcoal Company

Charcoal often comes from South America under dubious environmental circumstances, but Good Charcoal Company’s products are sourced from overgrown Namibian acacia, which reduces biodiversity and groundwater recharge when left unchecked. By employing local ranchers to...

By Alison Van Houten

Transcripta Bio

Rare diseases affect some 400 million people worldwide, but no effective treatment exists for 95% of them. There's a sense among drugmakers, says Chris Moxham, CEO and chief scientific officer of Transcripta Bio, “that the...

By Alison Van Houten
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