LabStart Launch Phase Kickoff

​LabStart is kicking off the 🚀Launch Phase🚀 of our Fellowship Program and we would love for you to join us and our hosts DLA Piper! Come hear what LabStart has been up to the past few months and meet the fellows leading the next generation of big bold climate companies!

This is an in-person only event that will be taking place in downtown San Francisco.

​Learn more about the LabStart Fellows below:

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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.