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Amy Feldman, Forbes Staff

Meet India’s self-made biologics brewmaster billionaire

Thwarted in her ambition to become a brewmaster, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw channeled her frustrations into building a knockoff drug powerhouse and has become one of the world’s most successful female entrepreneurs.

  • By Amy Feldman

This founder created tights made from bulletproof vest materials. Next up: sustainable swimsuits

Katherine Homuth created Sheertex’s tights from bulletproof vest materials. Next up for SRTX: new materials for sustainable swimsuits.

  • By Amy Feldman

Forbes next billion-dollar startups list has accurately predicted 100+ unicorns in 10 years

Of the Next Billion-Dollar Startups list’s 225 alumni, 131, or 58%, became unicorns, including DoorDash, Figma, Anduril, Benchling and Rippling. This year, the list is dominated by artificial intelligence.

  • By Amy Feldman

This startup’s AI designs enzymes that can eat plastic waste

Landfills are overflowing with plastic trash. Serial inventor Jonathan Rothberg’s Protein Evolution found a solution: using AI to create enzymes that can recycle old polyester textiles into a material that acts new. Now the three-year-old company needs to prove that it can scale up.

  • By Amy Feldman

Asides

Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2023

There are more than 50,000 venture-backed startups in the U.S., and only the tiniest fraction will ever reach a $1 billion valuation. Here are the 25 we think most likely to succeed.

  • By Amy Feldman
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