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Danielle Applestone loves working with early-stage hardtech startups. She is a high-EQ scientist and engineer that is drawn to people undergoing big life transformations or creating businesses from ground zero. Danielle founded Applestone Consultingin 2022, acting as a fractional C-anything-O, consulting with founders who want to scale their companies.
Previously, and in reverse chronological order, she was the co-founder and CEO of Daughters of Rosie, a marketplace (unceremoniously slain by the pandemic) that brought diverse hands-on talent from the service industry into the manufacturing industry. Prior to that, Danielle ran a U.S. Government Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project to develop digital design software and manufacturing tools for the classroom. When the DARPA funding ended, her team took their technology, launched Other Machine Co., and built out a US-based manufacturing facility. Other Machine Co. was acquired by Bre Pettis in 2017 and became Bantam Tools. Her first company was SnipeSwipe, an internet software as a service (SaaS) company in 2003 that provided services to eBay buyers. She ran SnipeSwipe for 13 years.
Danielle received her B.S. in chemical engineering from MIT in 2002 and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012. During her PhD, she invented new materials for lithium ion batteries. Several of her battery materials have been patented and subsequently licensed. She is a member of the 2016 Class of Henry Crown Fellows and the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.
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