Catalyst by Camber Creek

Rebecca Patterson is not a therapist by training, but talking to her certainly feels therapeutic. A senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an independent director at Vanguard, she gets a lot of calls from...

John Belizaire and his company's stock price have been on a roller coaster ride. Soluna connects clients with big computer processing needs to the energy to power those calculations. Because it was so heavily tied to...

If you've ever notarized a document online instead of having to get in your car to drive to a notary public, you have Pat Kinsel to thank. And if one day your identity is not stolen after you purchase something on the...

Jeremy Garelick just wants to make people laugh. But to sustain an incredibly successful career doing that, he has solved some pretty knotty problems. In his twenties, he didn't know how to write a script but...

There are pivotal moments that have the potential to change so much. We take on new jobs, new projects, get promoted, start hiring for a key role. When the right people coordinate during these small windows of time...

Aza Nedhari set out to solve an enormous problem facing women giving birth. The US has the highest rate of maternal death of any high-income country, and within the US, that rate is by far the highest for Black women...

If you can turn your business into a platform, you probably should. There are amazing multi-billion-dollar products out there, but any one product has limits. Companies that run platforms, by contrast, cultivate...

After the public launch of ChatGPT, Salesforce knew that AI agents were coming for it. AI agents are smart, autonomous programs set loose on an infinite number of specific tasks. The danger was that this giant company...

If you want to improve your local community, think like a developer. Federal government programs spur billions of dollars of investment in real estate. For example, Opportunity Zones alone account for more than $14...

At the University of Maryland, the actor Kevin Bacon funded a “Shark Tank”-style competition for young social entrepreneurs. Instead of investing in skincare brands or gourmet cookies, judges heard pitches from students...

Nurses are on the front lines of public health. They work in hospitals and sometimes in people’s homes. They’re trained to meet people where they are and communicate across patients, doctors, and policymakers. Nurses...

The company Michael Rudin helps lead is extraordinary. It's more than 100 years old. There are dozens of countries that are younger than that. It's a family business, so personal and professional ties are inextricable...

At five feet tall, Amy Norman has periodically been misjudged or overlooked. Even after earning an MBA from one of the most prestigious business schools in the country, she was told she did not have enough gravitas. She...

Local news is on life support in the US. Since 2005, more than 3,200 print newspapers have closed or merged. That is a staggering number. But different business models have sprung up to fill that gap, including...

Josh Goldman would never describe himself this way, but he may be one of the most important people in the world. As co-founder of KoBold Metals he has helped develop technologies that do a much better job finding...