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Fabrice Penot
Le Labo (https://www.lelabofragrances.com/) is a perfume company that launched on Elizabeth Street in New York City in 2006. Le Labo perfumes are prepared on the spot for the client in each store, and the brand is appreciated for its minima
Scott Moody
AuthenTec makes fingerprint sensors that could unlock mobile phones and computers. AuthenTec was sold to Apple (http://www.apple.com) in 2012 for $356 million, and the fingerprint sensor first appeared on the iPhone 5s in 2013. Scott speaks
Coss Marte
ConBody (http://conbody.com/) is an exercise program that Coss developed while he was in prison for selling drugs. Coss lost 70 pounds in six months by working out in his 9’x6′ cell. Con body is located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan a
Jo Malone
Jo Malone is a fragrance entrepreneur. She launched Jo Malone London (http://www.jomalone.com/) in a retail shop in London in 1994. The company was bought by Estee Lauder (http://www.esteelauder.com/) in 1999. Jo launched her next company,
Daniel Lubetzky
KIND (http://www.kindsnacks.com/) is a food company that produces sweet and savory bars with whole nuts, spices, and fruit, among other products. KIND is sold in a diverse array of locations including Whole Foods, Walmart, convenience store
Brian Liu
LegalZoom (http://www.legalzoom.com) is an online service that provides legal documents and solutions for consumers and small businesses. The company helps visitors form corporations, file patents, trademark a name, create a living trust, e
Maguy Le Coze
As a teenager, Maguy Le Coze and her brother Gilbert were introduced to the culinary life while helping their parents in their hotel restaurant in Brittany, France. But staying in the French countryside was not for her. Maguy and Gilbert op
Dr. Robert Langer
Dr. Langer is a chemical engineer who has pioneered the fields of drug delivery and tissue engineering. His lab at MIT (http://langerlab.mit.edu/) receives roughly $10 Million in annual grants and has 100 researchers. Dr. Langer has helped
Philip Krim
Casper (https://casper.com/) is a company focused on sleep. Casper’s leading product is its mattress, which can be ordered online and delivered in a box, sometimes within hours if you live in New York City. Casper makes one type of mattress
Gary Kremen
Gary is a serial entrepreneur who launched Match.com (http://www.match.com), the online dating service, in 1993. A host of other online matchmaking personals companies have hatched as a result of Gary’s innovation. Gary also registered a nu
Jay Kimmelman
Bridge International Academies (http://www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com/) is a private network of nursery and primary schools educating the poorest students in developing countries including Kenya, Uganda and India. Bridge charges famil
Bertha González Nieves
Casa Dragones (http://casadragones.com/) is a luxury sipping tequila, made from 100% blue agave. Bob Pittman, founder of MTV, is Bertha’s partner. Madonna, Martha Stewart, Oprah, and Le Bernadin Chef Eric Ripert are among Casa Dragones’ cel
Luis von Ahn
Luis is an inventor and computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon (https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/education/faculty/vonahn-luis.html). He is one of the creators of CAPTCHA, a system that allows websites to determine whether you’re a human or
Orion Hindawi
Tanium (https://www.tanium.com/) is a cybersecurity company that focuses on providing internet safety for the US government and Fortune 500 companies. Clients include Amazon, Target, Best Buy and the Department of Defense. Orion started Tan
Mick Mountz
Kiva Systems (http://www.kivasystems.com/) is a mobile robotics company that automates the warehouse fulfillment process. Kiva robots deliver inventory shelves to stationary human operators who then pick and pack the product. Mick started K
Mike Krieger
Instagram (http://www.instagram.com) is a photo sharing app that was released through the Apple App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252?mt=8) in October, 2010 and reached one million users in just three months. Face
Andrew Cherng
Panda Express (https://www.pandaexpress.com/) is an American Chinese food chain with 2,000 restaurants located in airports, malls, universities, military bases, amusement parks, among other locations. Andrew started Panda Express with his w
John Zimmer
Lyft (https://www.lyft.com) is a transportation network company with a peer-to-peer mobile app that enables passengers to request rides with their smartphones. Prior to starting Lyft, John co-founded Zimride (http://www.zimride.com/) in 200
Ayah Bdeir
littleBits (http://www.littlebits.cc) is a hardware company that aims to put the power of electronics in everyone’s hands. The company sells electronic modules that snap together with magnets, making them accessible to both adults and child
Uri Levine
Waze (http://www.waze.com) is a crowd sourced traffic navigation app. Drivers share real-time traffic and road information to help other users on the same route. Uri founded Waze in Israel in 2007 and the company was sold to Google in 2013
Jason Ackerman
Fresh Direct (https://www.freshdirect.com) is an online grocer that disrupted the traditional food supply chain by sourcing food where it’s produced and delivering it to consumers without going through additional retailers. Fresh Direct lau
Essie Weingarten
Essie started her eponymous brand in 1981 with $10,000 after working in the hosiery business. When Essie (http://www.essie.com/) launched, there were very few companies making nail polish, and nail salons were rare. Essie nail polish is now
Tristan Walker
Walker & Company (http://walkerandcompany.com/) makes beauty and health products for people of color. Prior, Tristan was the first African American entrepreneur in residence at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/
Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens started making computer tech-support house calls on his dirt bike while he was a college student at the University of Minnesota in 1994. He’d arrive to a customer’s house on time, take off his shoes, wear a clean uniform, an
Martine Rothblatt
Martine is a pioneer in the satellite industry, launching companies including Geostar, PanAmSat, and Sirius Satellite Radio (http://www.siriusxm.com/). She also founded United Therapeutics (http://www.unither.com/), a pharmaceutical company
Andrew Rosen
Andrew launched Theory (http://www.theory.com/), a contemporary clothing company, in 1997 with co-founder Eli Tahari. Theory used the stretchy fabric lycra to create a more modern, slender look initially for young professional women. Theory
Jessamyn Rodriguez
Hot Bread Kitchen (http://www.hotbreadkitchen.org) is an organization that teaches immigrant women to bake artisanal breads from their home country. HBK provides culinary and management training and English classes to these women who have c
Azim Premji
Sometimes the company you start looks a lot different from the company you end up with; Azim Premji turned his cooking fat company into one of India’s largest technology companies. With over 70,000 employees and $3Bn in sales, Wipro provide
Mark Ramadan
Sir Kensington’s (http://sirkensingtons.com/) is a condiment company that sells ketchup, mayo, mustard, etc. Mark and his partner Scott tried to create a gourmet alternative to Heinz and started tinkering with recipes in their off-campus ap
Sam Goldman
One third of the world population does not have access to reliable electricity. D.light (http://www.dlightdesign.com/) sells solar lighting and power to consumers in developing countries. The company’s lamps are healthier, cleaner, and chea
