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For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.

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  • •For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.
  • •Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2 . Book Exhibit Table Now.
  • •Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW.
  • •For Danu Robotics founder Amy Ma, the eureka moment came after years of working as a software developer at a London bank. It was the kind of high-touch office that’s typical in finance
  • •“Even though they have tons of money, there’s all these different recycling bins that just end up in the same place,” Ma told TechCrunch.
  • •The more she dug into the problem, the deeper it seemed to go. It wasn’t just her building. The economics of recycling as a whole often boil down to human beings sorting by hand through streams of waste to pull out different kinds of recyclable material.
  • •“I saw the technology and thought, we can do so much better,” Ma remembers.
  • •Now, she’s making good on that promise with six-year-old, Edinburgh, Scotland

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For Danu Robotics founder Amy Ma, the eureka moment came after years of working as a software developer at a London bank. It was the kind of high-touch office that’s typical in finance

“Even though they have tons of money, there’s all these different recycling bins that just end up in the same place,” Ma told TechCrunch.

The more she dug into the problem, the deeper it seemed to go. It wasn’t just her building. The economics of recycling as a whole often boil down to human beings sorting by hand through streams of waste to pull out different kinds of recyclable material.

“I saw the technology and thought, we can do so much better,” Ma remembers.

Now, she’s making good on that promise with six-year-old, Edinburgh, Scotland

The approach is already seeing some traction. Danu has letters of interest from two large customers and $500,000 worth of signed contracts. More notably, more than 200 customers are in its sales pipeline, which gives the company a hook into the $20 billion market for recycling sorting across Europe and North America.

On the back of that promise, Dabnu has raised $5 million in late-seed funding to keep the commercial pressure on.

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