Daniel Zillante is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zilper Trenchless, a Cambridge-based trenchless technology startup that specializes in creating cost-efficient equipment for infrastructure projects. From winning the MIT DesignX Demo Day competition to taking home more than $425k from the Rice Business Plan Competition, Zilper Trenchless is quickly gaining momentum. Daniel sat down with us […]
In 2018, venture capitalists invested more dollars in female founders than ever before — $2.88 billion 2018 vs. $1.9 billion 2017. Yet the percentage of total VC funding going to women is still low. Only 2.2% of venture capital funding went to female founders in 2018 and just 8% of partners at top venture capital firms are […]
As municipalities globally enact stricter water pollution standards and discharge limits, new testing methods are needed to support early warning and enforcement. Veracet, a Berkeley, CA-based startup and Imagine H2O Asia company, is developing a new mapping and diagnostics platform using DNA fingerprinting to help cities trace the sources of microbial contamination in a single […]