October 2, 2025
Scooped by a cupcake business: why we called our green-cement company Sublime Systems
Leah Ellis, a former DMSE postdoc and co-founder of MIT startup Sublime Systems, speaks with Nature about how the startup got its name.
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Leah Ellis and DMSE Professor Yet-Ming Chiang co-founded Sublime Systems in 2020.
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Leah Ellis, a former MIT postdoc and co-founder of MIT startup Sublime Systems, speaks with Nature reporter Jacqui Thornton about the creation of the company. “I felt that the word Sublime encapsulated the spirit of excellence, transcendence and purity that we intend to exemplify as we build a technology and a company that we hope will change the world — and the inherent properties of cement itself.”
Read the full story in Nature.