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Luana Lopes Lara Put the Future on the Trading Floor
The former ballerina and MIT mathematician spent years asking permission to build a new kind of exchange. Then came the moment when permission was no longer the point.
Suryaprakash Ganti and the Invisible Ceiling Inside Every Chip
After years spent shrinking displays and teaching phones to read fingerprints, the engineer behind Frore Systems turned to a less glamorous adversary: trapped heat. His wager is that the next leap in computing may begin with moving air through a space barely thicker than a coin.
Rome Portlock and the Six-Week Rewrite
An MIT engineer, three nurses in the family and a startup idea that did not work. Rome Portlock turned that unpromising combination into a new rule for hospital hiring: let employers make the first move.
Benjamin Claman Put the Blimp Back to Work
The Alaska-raised engineer started with cargo, found a market in attention, and turned an old aircraft into a new kind of media platform.
Ale Resnik Is Rewriting the Rules of Renting - One System at a Time
After Beepi’s collapse, the Argentine engineer did not retreat from difficult marketplaces. He chose a more intimate one: the place people call home.
Alex Wang Is Taking AI Out of the Demo and Into the Lab
After two decades helping enterprise technologies find their market, NobleAI's CEO is betting that scientific AI wins only when chemists and engineers can understand it, check it and use it in the flow of real work.
Samir Dutta Is Teaching AI to Remember How Finance Decides
After learning to code and learning how deals get done, the Farsight co-founder found his company in the redlines - the small, revealing edits where a financial firm's judgment lives.
Anurupa Ganguly
Anurupa Ganguly is the founder and CEO of Prisms, a spatial learning platform that uses virtual reality to teach core math and science to middle and high school students. A former math and physics teacher with degrees from MIT and Boston University, she built Prisms after a decade-plus in education leadership at Boston Public Schools and the NYC Department of Education. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz with $18.4M raised, Prisms now reaches 300,000+ students across 300+ school districts in 35 states, delivering measurable gains in algebra and science comprehension through embodied, problem-driven VR experiences.