100 Women Making Money, Creating Jobs and Changing the World
Inc.
They are scientists, creatives, MBAs, data-nerds, and visionaries. For some, it’s the first time they’ve ever started a company. Others have been at this for decades. The Female Founders 100 are the entrepreneurs. Inc. has been most intrigued by in the last year, whose smarts are rattling industries far and wide.
11 Serial Entrepreneurs Taking on TED Talks, Target, and Transportation
Each of these entrepreneurs on Inc.‘s Female Founders 100 started a company–and then did it again.
Christina Lampe-Onnerud
Cadenza Innovation
Electric cars and energy-efficient power grids need better batteries–and the Swedish-born serial entrepreneur and PhD has spent her career inventing them. She has founded two battery startups: Boston-Power, which makes lithium-ion batteries; and, in 2012, Cadenza Innovation, which is focused on creating better and more energy-efficient packaging for battery power cells. Her new company has raised over $10 million from angel investors, and lined up $6 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy and three states. This year, New York’s state government agreed to use Cadenza technology to test a clean-energy project: “The energy problem is a global problem–but we’re not approaching it as a global problem,” says Lampe-Onnerud. “It becomes a local opportunity.” –M.A.