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Shanti Bansal Built a Second Pair of Eyes for the Device Clinic
A Houston electrophysiologist kept hearing the same awkward question from patients: had he seen what their implanted devices had seen? His answer became Octagos, a company built around the unglamorous art of making clinical data useful.
Michael Vellano Built a Company Around the Streets Nobody Wants to Dig Up
A fourth-generation waterworks operator turned a century of family know-how into a modern playbook: repair what lies beneath cities, buy capabilities with care, and let field crews improve the technology.
Nate Richards Put the Messy Middle of Energy Sales on Speaking Terms
A childhood programmer found his durable business in the least glamorous corner of competitive energy: the handoffs, spreadsheets and commission files between buyers, brokers and suppliers.
Gilad Cohen Is Teaching Industrial AI to Earn the Right to Touch the Controls
A mathematician turned repeat founder learned that the central challenge of industrial AI is not making a model smarter. It is giving engineers enough visibility, agency and evidence to let the model act.