LabStart & Napa Chamber of Commerce Climate Startups Showcase in Napa
LabStart (a 501c3), in collaboration with the Napa Chamber of Commerce, is excited to bring our annual Fellowship kick-off to Napa Valley for the first time in January, culminating in a showcase of LabStart and our entrepreneurs at this event! This kick off week and showcase event are a time of forming new friendships, learning, reflection, business building, and presenting.
These climate entrepreneurs are creating businesses solving our planet's most important problems — ranging from how to build and operate data centers sustainably to how to grow climate resilient crops — and are on the cutting edge of creating the new economy.
Learn more about the LabStart Fellows below:
Emilio Balderas (Aura Life Science, Chicago, IL) is tackling the biomanufacturing industry. His startup is commercializing a new platform technology that aims to reduce production costs by up to 4x and enable truly carbon-negative production.
Sebastian Garcia (Khaya Biosciences, New York, NY) is leveraging circularity by developing a novel way to create versatile and affordable biopolymers, using waste products from the beer and dairy industries. Talk about turning waste into worth!
Warren Ndlovu (Stealth, Oakland, CA) is a seasoned startup operator focused on critical materials and their associated waste. Through LabStart, Warren is building solutions to solve sustainability challenges in this vital area.
Tinia Pina (Stealth, New York, NY), an experienced entrepreneur, is developing a new venture utilizing advanced hydrogel technologies to drastically increase the efficiency and sustainability of data center cooling and wildfire prevention.
Monica Sanders (Bonne Terre Labs, Alexandria, VA) is a Georgetown law professor and National Geographic Explorer. She is applying her expertise to develop SEED-DC, an innovative tool for data center siting that integrates environmental sustainability, renewable energy, and advanced cooling.
Pilanda Watkins-Curry, Ph.D. (AuraChrome, Henrico, VA), is using her deep technology commercialization expertise to create green and natural chemicals for the cosmetics industry, moving the sector toward greater sustainability.