Varsha Bansal

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Neara

Power outages due to bad weather are rising in the U.S. as the effects of climate change intensify. Neara works with electricity utilities to help them mitigate risks, such as floods and wildfires, and keep...

By Varsha Bansal

Food4Education

What started out 12 years ago as an ad hoc way to feed 25 schoolchildren in a town outside of Nairobi is now Africa’s largest locally led and independently run school food program. Food4Education, the...

By Varsha Bansal

Olipop

All the sugar in soda has a bad rep, and Americans want more beverage choices. Six years after its founding, Olipop—which makes lower-calorie sodas containing fiber, prebiotics, and just 2 to 5 grams of sugar...

By Varsha Bansal

Epic Games

For years, Epic Games, the creator of the wildly popular video game Fortnite, has been fighting Apple and Google for a bigger piece of the app economy. The private game and software developer filed lawsuits...

By Varsha Bansal

T-Mobile US

There are still yawning gaps in cell-network coverage across the U.S. More than half a million square miles of the country does not receive a cell signal, according to T-Mobile US. Like lack of internet...

By Varsha Bansal

Tomorrow.io

Coupling satellite radars and AI, Tomorrow.io is reinventing weather forecasts for the risk-laden climate change era. The eight-year-old startup provides weather “intelligence” to help businesses and governments get a better handle on everything from air...

By Varsha Bansal

BMW

With demand for electric vehicles (EVs) slowing, some legacy automakers have scaled back their all-electric plans. Not BMW. The German company saw its EVs constitute 15% of sales in 2023, up from 9% in 2022,...

By Varsha Bansal

Guardant Health

A new era of cancer detection is under way, using simple blood tests. In 2022, Guardant Health introduced Shield, one of the first blood-based tests to screen for colorectal cancer. While it wouldn’t replace colonoscopies, the...

By Varsha Bansal

Banza

Banza’s obsession with chickpea protein started in the pasta aisle 10 years ago. (Banza has 50% more protein and three times as much fiber as traditional pasta.) As the company rose to become the fifth...

By Varsha Bansal

India's Answer to Delivery Startups

When Jay Prakash, a 35-year-old shopkeeper, inherited his father’s local convenience store in Bengaluru, it had a dependable customer base streaming in from a wealthy apartment building known as the Diamond District. His 400 square-foot...

By Varsha Bansal
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