DJ and producer Mau P's rise to the top of the global house and techno scene wasn't an accident—it was a masterclass in reinvention. Forbes goes backstage with Mau P where he gets real about the mental toll of touring, why he uses organic viral moments to his advantage and the exact strategy he used to scale his brand massively in the US compared to Europe.

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Meet Marius Meiners, the co-founder of PeakAI, a hyper-growth startup revolutionizing how companies rank in Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). In this interview, Marius breaks down exactly how AI models are changing the way consumers search for products, and what brands need to do to show up in those AI-generated answers.

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Meet Clarice Beurrier, the visionary founder and CEO behind Cellcraft, an AI and automation platform built to scale cellular manufacturing and revolutionize the cultivated meat industry. Clarice explains the exact science behind how lab-grown meat is harmlessly cultivated in 2,000-liter bioreactors and why Cellcraft’s "physical AI" and software are the missing links to making this technology scalable and cost-effective.

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Sinead Gorey is redefining the contemporary fashion space one drop at a time. In this interview with Alex York, the London-based designer breaks down how she went from a working-class background in Bromley to showing at London Fashion Week and styling icons like Sabrina Carpenter and Lady Gaga.

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After watching a polluted river flood her central Mexican hometown of San Pedro Tultepec, Xiye Bastida, the daughter of two climate activists, became one herself. Organizing her first climate strike at 16, she has become a leading Gen Z voice on the topic—speaking at the United Nations, climate change summits and universities including Harvard and Columbia. She doesn’t just give speeches. In 2020, she cofounded the Re-Earth Initiative, which she says has raised over $3.4 million from supporters the 776 Foundation, Waverley Street Foundation and Diane Von Furstenberg. The New York–based nonprofit gives grants of up to $15,000 to youth-led climate organizations across the globe. “I don’t think it’s fair that the youth who are building the world for tomorrow are so under-resourced,” Bastida says. In 2024, she distributed around $1 million to startups, youth summits and climate documentaries.

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Nothing to wear? Check out Alta, Jenny Wang’s AI-powered stylist and shopping app. Upload photos of items you own (or recent shopping receipts) to create a digital closet. The New York–based startup will then list outfit suggestions or—and this is where Wang hopes to make money—recommend new stuff to buy based on the weather, season and occasion. “Fashion is so interesting from a data perspective,” says Wang, a Harvard-trained engineer. “Alta is both utilitarian in that it helps you decide what to wear and buy, but it’s also just aspirational.” Amid the sea of AI-powered closet startups, Alta is backed by both venture and fashion heavyweights, including Menlo Ventures, which led the company’s $11 million seed round in June, LVMH-backed Algaé Ventures and Michelle Obama’s stylist, Meredith Koop.

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Imagine a Tesla for watercraft. Jonathan Lord and cofounders Ben Sorkin and Daylin Frantin started building electric boating company Flux Marine in 2018 after years of research at Princeton University. Seven years later, the pair have raised more than $30 million in funding to develop EVs for the sea. “Since age 14, I spent many days out on the water. I had the opportunity to see a beautiful environment—except for the noise and the smell of these gas engines,” Lord says. Flux Marine operates out of Bristol, Rhode Island, and builds high-performance electric outboard motors (up to 150 horsepower) and battery systems for small boats. Flux largely works with existing manufacturers to power new builds—boats with Flux engines cost around $120,000. But it also offers some “repowers,” in which they’ll swap out old engines to make existing boats more climate-friendly. “The electric revolution is happening,” Lord says. “We’re really just at the beginning.”

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Troy Bonde and his cofounder, Winston Alfieri, are taking aim at America’s estimated $2.5 billion (sales) pasta sauce market. Their brand, Los Angeles–based Sauz, has attracted younger shoppers with creative combos like miso-garlic and hot honey marinara—flavors far from traditional red-sauce Italian-American cuisine. “We try to identify flavor trends across categories that are familiar enough that we don’t necessarily have to go educate consumers on,” says Bonde, Sauz’s CEO. The pair has raised nearly $22 million from VCs and is on track to make $15 million in revenue by the end of 2025. Bonde and Alfieri initially partnered during the pandemic making a hand sanitizer dispenser that doubled as a thermometer. To conserve cash, they lived on pasta. Soon, they grew tired of limited flavor options and, as Covid faded, pivoted from sanitizer to sauce. Today, their jars are sold in 8,000 retail locations such as Whole Foods, Sprouts and Target.

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