Danielle A. Fong (born October 30, 1987) is a Canadian entrepreneur and the co-founder and Chief Scientist of LightSail Energy. In 2011, Fong was featured in Forbes' 30 under 30 in the Energy category.
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Education
Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Fong dropped out of junior high school to attend Dalhousie University. She graduated from Dalhousie in 2005, after which she entered the Plasma Physics Department at Princeton University as a Ph.D. student, but later dropped out.
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Entrepreneurship
After going on leave from the Princeton Plasma Physics program, Fong co-founded LightSail Energy, a Khosla Ventures backed company, in 2009 with Stephen Crane and Edwin P. Berlin, Jr. LightSail Energy is developing a form of compressed air energy storage., which they term regenerative air energy storage (RAES).
Recognition
In December 2011 Fong was featured in Forbes' 30 under 30 in the Energy category. and interviewed by Forbes.com in a video titled "Danielle Fong May Save the World". She was named by the MIT Technology Review as one of the top 35 innovators under 35 in 2012.
She is a regular guest contributor to the Women 2.0 blog and was a featured speaker at the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition 2012. She writes essays on various topics, including entrepreneurship and green technology, on her blog "Insights by Danielle Fong".
References
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