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Bala Ramamurthy and the trouble with waiting
Balachandar Ramamurthy helped prepare Falcon 9 to carry astronauts. At Critical Loop, he is applying the same systems engineering discipline to factories and infrastructure waiting for electricity.
Nanna Nielsen
Nanna Nielsen is the Chief Business Officer of Critical Loop, a Los Angeles-area industrial power company that helps factories, airports and data centers get electricity in days instead of years by pairing battery storage with autonomous control software. A Danish-born operator who once ran banking operations for fintech unicorn GoCardless - overseeing more than $52 billion in transactions for 93,000+ businesses - she now applies that same operational rigor to fixing America's grid bottleneck. The company raised a $26 million Series A in April 2026.