I met Dr. Heather Rubin at the Innovation Showcase Event held at the Warehouse Innovation Hub in Loveland in late August.  Heather took home 2 of the 4 awards presented that day - the Most Disruptive Business Model and the People’s Choice Award!  

Heather’s journey is an inspiring one, and I was struck throughout how her focus on collaboration was the key to unlocking this potentially disruptive journey.  Initially hired as a consultant to evaluate university research technology, Heather fell in love with the opportunity to co-found the venture, and is raising funds and building a team to reimagine composite materials technology.  From the website “Our advanced composite manufacturing technology utilizes a well-controlled, self-propagating, frontal polymerization process to cure high-performance composites quickly and effectively.”  For the lay-men and lay-women out there - they make a fancy resin stuff that hardens like a flame front, quickly and with minimal heat required to launch or cure, which could change industries ranging from natural gas pipeline repairs to on-site manufacturing of windmill blades and much, much more!  

More inspiring than the RapiCure opportunity is Heather’s journey to this point.  Raised in a working class family in Baltimore, Heather is a first-generation college student that found her initial inspiration in a Ben Carson scholarship when she was still in elementary school.  She’s an amazing example for female founders raising funds and building teams everywhere, and my sense is we’ve only seen the beginning of Heather’s impact on the world.  I’m excited to share her journey to this point, and to watch as her company and community impact scale from here, so please enjoy my inspiring and entertaining conversation with Dr. Heather Rubin, PhD and CEO.  

https://www.rapicuresolutions.com/

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