Sam Gikandi ’05 SM ’06 and Eston Kimani ’05 have always believed in the potential of Africa’s entrepreneurial community. Their years at MIT, beginning in 2001 when they left their home country of Kenya, only reinforced that belief. Through the MIT-Africa initiative and other campus programs that allowed them to work in regions across the…
Optimizing Solar Farms with Smart Drones
As the solar industry has grown, so have some of its inefficiencies. Smart entrepreneurs see those inefficiencies as business opportunities and try to create solutions around them. Such is the nature of a maturing industry. One of the biggest complications emerging from the industry’s breakneck growth is the maintenance of solar farms. Historically, technicians have…
Weather Monitoring from the Ground up
Many startups tailor their first product or service to a specific market segment in order to validate their ideas and get some early traction. Far fewer develop a solution to such a fundamental problem that they explore several markets simultaneously, but ClimaCell has done just that. The problem the company is tackling is weather modeling.…