Here is StemExpress’ entry on the top 50 Fastest-Growing Women-Led Private Companies in America:
35. StemExpress
CEO: Cate Dyer
Inc. 5000 Rank: 363
2013 Revenue: $2.2 million
3-Year Growth Rate: 1316 percent
Supplies biomedical researchers with human blood, tissue products, bone marrow, primary cells, and the clinical specimens they need to perform their research.
Cate Dyer founded her biotechnology company in Placerville with only $9,000. Four years later StemExpress, which provides human blood, bone marrow, human primary cells and tissue for medical research, ranks No. 363 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies, with 1,315 percent growth over a three-year period.
Interesting Facts:
Best advice you ever got: “Identify what your greatest weaknesses are and hire those strengths immediately.”
Goal by age 40: “Truly brilliant ideas take place when we slow down, take in our environment, and see what’s missing. So on that note, I want to start spending at least one month living in another country, every year.”
Biggest whoops: “Letting fear hold me back.”
Favorite possession: Everything Apple
Guilty pleasure: Motocross/Motorcycle Riding
I am passionate about: “Revolutionizing medical research, directly improving patient care, being an instrument of change and absolutely enjoying life to its fullest.”
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