EditorialIvan Zhang, left, and Nick Frosst, two founders of the startup Cohere, which specializes in technology that helps machines understand the natural way people write and talk, at their office in Toronto, March 9, 2022.(Brendan Ko/The New York Times)
EditorialAn early prototype of an Inversion Space capsule at the company’s facility in Lake Elsinore, Calif., Feb. 5, 2022. (Adam Amengual/The New York Times)
EditorialMallory Greene holds one of the urns offered by her direct-to-consumer cremation startup, Eirene at Bayview Cemetery in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 13, 2022. (Nathan Cyprys/The New York Times)
EditorialSamples of some of the thousands of whiskeys produced by Bespoken Spirits, at their lab in Menlo Park, Calif., Jan. 11, 2021. (Gabriela Hasbun/The New York Times)
EditorialNatalia Martinez-Kalinina, managing director of performance at logistics startup Reef Technologies, in Miami, Fla., Jan. 24, 2021. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)
EditorialNatalia Martinez-Kalinina, managing director of performance at logistics startup Reef Technologies, in Miami, Fla., Jan. 24, 2021. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)
EditorialJoshua Cohen, left, and Justin Klee in the new upstairs area at Amylyx, the startup they founded to pursue their treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 27, 2020. (Cody O'Loughlin/The New York Times)
EditorialTravis Lenkner, a lawyer whose firm filed about 2,250 arbitration claims against DoorDash in one day, in Chicago, March 10, 2020. (Lyndon French/The New York Times)