Dr Sahara Bhanot (she/her)

Sahara co-founded LanthaGen Bio on a simple bet: biology beats brute-force chemistry when it comes to recovering the world's most valuable metals. She's taken scaled the company’s funding from small philanthropic grant to over £2.1 million in equity-free funding in less than a year. Her conviction is that the "waste" piling up in old electronics and mining tailings is actually the richest untapped mine on the planet. Sahara is making sure the industry stops digging and starts recovering.