In the fall of 2019, Honghao Deng and his co-founder Jiani Zeng joined 500 Global’s accelerator program, as part of Batch 26. Their company Butlr, an MIT Media Lab spin-out, had developed sensors that anonymously track through body heat how people move indoors, to help businesses manage the use of commercial space. Applications include monitoring foot traffic, maintaining clean bathrooms, or activating air conditioning when needed. Butlr was set on deploying its sensors in commercial building...
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In the fall of 2019, Honghao Deng and his co-founder Jiani Zeng joined 500 Global’s accelerator program, as part of Batch 26. Their company Butlr, an MIT Media Lab spin-out, had developed sensors that anonymously track through body heat how people move indoors, to help businesses manage the use of commercial space. Applications include monitoring foot traffic, maintaining clean bathrooms, or activating air conditioning when needed. Butlr was set on deploying its sensors in commercial building...
StrongHer Ventures’ Ankita Vashistha Is On A Mission To Back Women-Focused Startups
Rise of the Next
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3 years ago
StrongHer Ventures’ Ankita Vashistha Is On A Mission To Back Women-Focused Startups
With funding for female founders still dismally low, female investors can make a difference When Ankita Vashistha began making angel investments in Singapore, India, and the U.S. more than a decade ago, she was struck by the dearth of female founders–a problem that persists to this day. In the U.S., female-founded startups still garner only 2% of venture capital funding. This led her to launch her first fund in 2015 and StrongHer Ventures two years ago, both focusing on early stage startups t...
Rise of the Next
In the fall of 2019, Honghao Deng and his co-founder Jiani Zeng joined 500 Global’s accelerator program, as part of Batch 26. Their company Butlr, an MIT Media Lab spin-out, had developed sensors that anonymously track through body heat how people move indoors, to help businesses manage the use of commercial space. Applications include monitoring foot traffic, maintaining clean bathrooms, or activating air conditioning when needed. Butlr was set on deploying its sensors in commercial building...
