So she left to work as a itinerant hacker and programmer for awhile before forming LightSail in 2008.

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LightSail claims that allows for a much more efficient storage system as energy does not have to be expended reheating the air.

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News broke today that 25-year old chief scientist and LightSail co-founder Danielle Fong closed Series D funding with investors including Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla and Bill Gates.

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The round of venture funding took LightSail Energy a year to close, after the very public failure of solar energy giant Solyndra spooked investors in the energy sector.

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