PITCH 2012 speaker Danielle Fong announced raising Series D from investors including Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla and Bill Gates. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today, news broke that 25-year old chief scientist and LightSail co-founder Danielle Fong closed Series D funding with investors including Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla and Bill Gates. The [...]
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PITCH 2012 Speaker Danielle Fong, Chief Scientist And Co-Founder Of LightSail Energy, Raises $37.3 Million Series D Venture Funding
November 5, 2012 – 10:00 am
Danielle Fong: Perfecting Green Energy Storage
May 17, 2012 – 5:38 pm
She entered college at age 12 and enrolled in a Ph.D. program at 17. Now, Danielle Fong wants to solve the ‘holy grail’ of green energy issues. By Sarah F. Berkowitz (Contributor, Mother Nature Network) Danielle Fong was only 19 years old when she founded a technology company with the goal of perfecting green energy [...]
Trade Trade Secrets: Revolutionary Ideas
April 12, 2012 – 8:00 am
Startups are in a race against time, not others. By Danielle Fong (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Lightsail Energy) Your revolution will not be stolen. Great ideas can’t change the world by themselves. They need people. There are two kinds of revolutionary ideas. The explosive, and the subversive. The explosive ideas seem to spread like wildfire. [...]
A Year Of Green (Energy) Dreams: Life In The Year Of The Rabbit
January 23, 2012 – 11:34 am
By Danielle Fong (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, LightSail Energy) Editor’s note: LightSail Energy’s Danielle Fong will be speaking on February 14 at Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Get your ticket here! I’ve lived a lifetime this year. It sometimes feels as if so much is [...]
Where Are The Women In Forbes “30 Under 30″?
December 19, 2011 – 11:47 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This morning, Forbes announced their annual “30 Under 30″ lists, launching a cavalcade of public congratulations for the named, and also leaving many women in tech wondering “where are the women?” in Forbes lists? 24-year old Danielle Fong holds top billing in the “30 Under 30″ for [...]
Interview with a Plasma Physics Ph.D Dropout Turned Energy Entrepreneur: “Physics is Like a Bootcamp for Your Mind”
August 18, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Danielle Fong (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Lightsail Energy) One month ago, I was interviewed by Jane Affleck as a profile piece for my Alma Mater, Dalhousie University. Interviewer: You “started” a PhD at Princeton… why did you stop? Was it boring? Did you feel driven to just do your own thing? Danielle Fong: I [...]
Green Energy: A Day In The Life of a Cleantech Entrepreneur
August 3, 2011 – 12:29 pm
By Danielle Fong (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Lightsail Energy) LightSail Energy is a green energy startup company that’s trying to make it possible, and economical, to power the world with nothing but clean, green energy. We’re tackling what some call the holy grail of green energy -– how to economically and efficiency store energy such [...]
