text: Blanco co-founded Sunthetics, along with fellow NYU graduate, Myriam Sbeiti, and NYU professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Miguel Modestino.
  The idea for Sunthetics was born while Blanco was a PhD student at NYU working on her PhD thesis. Her goal was to find a way to efficiently power chemical reactions using electricity rather than heat which relies on the burning of fossil fuels. She was initially focused on applying this idea to part of the development process for the widely used material, nylon. When faced with a lack of interest from Nylon manufacturing companies, the Sunthetic's co-founders decided to pivot their companies focus to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms behind the process. The AI tools that had been developed were the key to making the renewable energy driven chemical reactions as efficient as possible. Blanco also found there was significantly more interest in the AI technology she and the Sunthetics team had developed and it was this technology that could be applied to many different industries. Sunthetics now focuses on further developing and perfecting that AI-driven machine learning platform. As of 2022, Sunthetics has six employees.