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30 UNDER 30

STEM STANDOUTS
Science, technology, engineering and math with women
from the Forbes 30 Under 30, in 30 words or less.

IBA MASOOD
Cofounder, Tara A.I. | 28
Artificial-intelligence software matches freelance
coders with well-suited programming gigs. Masood
has raised $3 million; the Y Combinator grad counts
Ford, Cisco and Orange Telecom among her clients.

RACHEL BENYOLA
Founder, AnneeLondon | 30
Philadelphia-based designer invented a
CATHY TIE
Cofounder, Ranomics | 22 collapsible, origami-inspired (but strong!)
Thiel Fellow raised $1.3 million to bicycle helmet for easy transport and
construct a database of rare genetic storage. The patent-pending noggin guard
variations and associated disease risk. has 3,500 preorders at $190 a pop.
She is also a partner at Palo Alto–
based VC firm Cervin Ventures.
AMBER YANG
ELIZABETH ASAI
Cofounder, 3Derm Founder, Seer Tracking | 19
Systems | 27 Stanford undergrad’s
Yale alum raised $3.9 mil- program tracks space
lion for her invention: 3-D debris, predicting when it
imaging system for pri- might endanger satellites
mary care doctors to take and spacecraft. With 98%
diagnostic-quality pictures accuracy, the software she
to send to dermatologists built is said to be more
for review, no appointment accurate than NASA’s
necessary. models.

LEA VON BIDDER
Cofounder, Ava Science | 28
Investors put $42 million into
ANNIE CHEUNG
Cofounder, Noon Home | 28 Swiss native’s fertility-tracking
The Salt Lake City native’s smart- bracelet, which tells women
lighting app swaps switches and dim- when they’re likeliest to con- ILLUSTRATIONS BY AARON SACCO
mers for automatic adjustments based ceive. Tracker data shows it BY ALEXANDRA WILSON
on time and user preference. Cheung has “enabled” some 10,000
has raised $58 million. pregnancies since it debuted.

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