This is the second webinar, designed to provide information and inspiration to those who want to manifest their vision into a startup company. While this might appear to be a Climate, Weather, Water, Enterprise initiative, it is also for anyone with ideas in STEAM, those who author books, develop youth camps or those developing community businesses.
This afternoon, we spoke with the CEOs, Darrell Marshall, PhD, from Total Analysis (https://www.totalanalysisusa.com/learnmore) and Darren Riley of JustAir (https://www.justair.co/about-us), about their companies and the valuable solutions they provide for the Detroit community. They provided a valuable narrative about their companies and also their thought and ideas about the startup space. They are both amazing resources and inspirations to the community.
Dr. Darrell D. Marshall is a bioanalytical chemist and the CEO of Total Analysis, a Detroit native building a Detroit biotechnology startup tackling infectious diseases with rapid germ detection technology. As one of only two Black founders in Detroit to receive an SBIR grant, he’s made history. With a B.S. in Chemistry from Wayne State and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he has over 25 published articles. Under his leadership, Total Analysis is developing Helios 1 to transform disease detection. At the same time, he’s passionate about increasing diversity in STEM and empowering underserved youth in Detroit.
Darren Riley is the Co-founder and CEO of JustAir, a Detroit-based environmental tech company dedicated to protecting the 20,000 breaths we all take every day. Darren was in his mid-twenties when he developed asthma while living in Southwest Detroit, one of the most polluted communities in the country. JustAir began as a project to equip environmental justice leaders with the data and tools needed to understand air quality, educate the public, and organize for change. Today, JustAir has developed outcomes-oriented, scalable technology that addresses major air quality data and management challenges locally and across the country.
With a formal education from Carnegie Mellon University and over a decade of experience as a software engineer, Darren leads a mission-driven team dedicated to ensuring that everyone has access to clean air.
Live Discussion with Darrell and Darren on April 25, 2025.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cBi8YX-g6oQvghVok0aswJv9rOiXNmps/view?usp=sharing
Darrell and Darren are the new Bad Boys of Detroit.
DETROIT BASKETBALL !!
https://www.blacktechsaturdays.com
The ecosystem that Darren and Darrell mentioned in their talk.