
She met graphene in an MBA classroom, built a company with her husband, and spent a decade translating microscopic chemistry into products manufacturers could actually use. Now MITO's sale to First Graphene gives that patient work a global runway.
Graphene had extraordinary lab results and an ordinary factory problem: it clumped, wandered and asked manufacturers to change too much. MITO built its business around the unglamorous fix - make the wonder material behave like an additive people can actually use.
Brane Audio spent nine years and 100-plus prototypes trying to break a century-old rule of acoustics. The result is a portable speaker that reviewers keep describing as impossible.