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Gabriela Trueba and the art of making the hard part disappear
She learned 3D to make things, then spent years questioning why it was so difficult. With Womp, Gabriela Trueba is bringing the tools of fabrication closer to the people with the ideas.
Angelo Yu and the room that learned to move
An architect’s question took Angelo Yu from small drones to autonomous spaces. At PIX Moving, he is testing what happens when a city’s rooms can come to its people.
Dan Shapiro and the Fine Art of Starting Over
He has sold a startup to Google, taught preschoolers to program with cardboard turtles, and put a laser factory on the desk. Then the venture machine stalled, and Dan Shapiro chose the oldest founder trick in the book: begin again.
Daniel Blank
Daniel Blank is the CEO and co-founder of Toggle, a construction robotics company he started in New York in 2016 to bring manufacturing methods to the built environment, beginning with the fabrication and assembly of steel rebar for reinforced concrete. A designer by training who spent a decade running a design agency, Blank re-imagined the one-off construction process as a repeatable product-manufacturing process after watching workers tie thousands of steel bars by hand at a wind farm. Toggle has raised roughly $15 million from investors including Point72 Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Blackhorn Ventures and Mark Cuban, and has since expanded into automated quality control for custom fabricators under the Toggle QC banner.