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Your Smoke Alarm Can't Smell Gas. DeNova Detect Thinks Your Next One Should.
New Cosmos sold 75 million gas alarms across Asia before most Americans knew the category existed. Now its Chicago-area outpost is quietly wiring the U.S. for a hazard no smoke detector was ever built to catch.
Alex Balkanski
Alex Balkanski is the President and CEO of Picarro, a Santa Clara-based company pioneering precision methane and greenhouse gas measurement technology for natural gas utilities worldwide. A Harvard-trained physicist turned serial entrepreneur, he co-founded C-Cube Microsystems in 1988, helped establish the MPEG video compression standard that underpins modern digital television, took C-Cube public in 1994, and orchestrated its acquisition of DiviCom in 1998. After a stint as General Partner at Benchmark Capital, he pivoted to climate tech, joining Picarro in 2013 to apply the same precision-instrument mindset to the urgent challenge of detecting and quantifying fugitive methane emissions across global gas distribution networks.