January 16, 2018 January 16, 2018 Member Spotlight Honey, I shrunk the glucose sensor Muhammad Mujeeb-U-Rahman is making a revolutionary sensor for diabetics that can be implanted inside the body By Bridget Riley
January 9, 2018 January 9, 2018 Member Spotlight Meet the first-ever Creator Awards Global finalists Creators include a 3D printing startup, a company making communication devices for people with ALS, and others By Bridget Riley
January 8, 2018 January 8, 2018 Member Spotlight B12’s robots build your perfect website In just 60 seconds, this company can make a personalized website By Mark Sullivan
December 19, 2017 December 19, 2017 Member Spotlight Rachel Sumekh works to swipe out hunger on college campuses As an undergraduate at UCLA, then 18-year-old Rachel Sumekh saw that there were students on campus who couldn’t get enough to eat. “Students have enough insecurities,” she says. “We feel food shouldn’t be one of them.” To solve the issue, Sumekh started Swipe Out Hunger, which builds on the meal plan programs already operating on […] By Nikki Pepper
December 11, 2017 December 11, 2017 Member Spotlight Cadus goes where no other mobile hospital dares While working out of mobile hospitals in Syria, Sebastian Jünemann and his team noticed a thistle-like plant called “Carduus” growing in the desert landscape. As medics working in a harsh environment, they had found their mascot. “We were like this plant,” Jünemann says. “We were there, where no other NGOs go.” They trimmed the name […] By Bridget Riley
December 5, 2017 December 5, 2017 Member Spotlight With Oui Shave, Karen Young finds a sisterhood of female founders Next time you see someone in the subway lugging a bulky blue Ikea bag, they might be building their own beauty empire. That’s how it was for Karen Young in the early days of her company, Oui Shave. “I spent many days trucking my Ikea bag full of orders on the train and getting a […] By Bridget Riley
November 7, 2017 November 7, 2017 Grasshoppers are the new sushi, says Hargol FoodTech “The first time I tasted grasshoppers was also the first time I ever touched one,” remembers Dror Tamir, cofounder and CEO of Hargol FoodTech—the world’s first commercial grasshopper farmer. “It was at a tasting event we held three years ago with representatives from Uganda and Japan. A CNN crew filmed the event, so I tried […] By Dana Kessler
November 6, 2017 November 6, 2017 Member Spotlight Conservation guide steers volunteers to projects around the world Justin Lennon has worked for conservation projects all over the world: Costa Rica, Tanzania, and Madagascar, to name a few. He saw firsthand how difficult it is for people wanting to do good in the world to find worthwhile projects. So he created Conservation Guide, a website that lets volunteers scope out great opportunities abroad. […] By Mark Sullivan
