Grant Morgan

Co-Founder + CEO of R-Zero

While most of us were busy hoarding toilet paper, Grant Morgan was working on a plan to change the world. As co-founder and CEO of R-Zero, he's democratizing access to hospital-grade biosafety technologies, restoring trust in our common spaces and the organizations that operate them, and helping establish a new standard for public health in the COVID-19 era and beyond.

When the pandemic hit, Grant realized he was in a unique position to save lives — and to revolutionize the $200B+ infection prevention industry. With a proven entrepreneurial track record and an extensive background designing medical devices and IoT enabled hardware, his skillset was tailor-made to meet the moment.

Soon, he and a small team were working day and night to reverse-engineer the hi-tech biosafety equipment used in hospitals across the country, searching for ways to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Less than six months later, his newly-founded company shipped its first product — a portable UV light tower capable of destroying 99.99% of pathogens in a room in minutes, and at a fraction of the cost of commercially-available alternatives.

Since then, R-Zero’s trajectory has been meteoric. Leveraging a suite of thoughtfully-designed, hospital-grade technologies and science-backed protocols, R-Zero seeks to define a new era of health security, pioneering groundbreaking biosafety technology to save lives in the COVID-19 era and beyond.

It’s the most important startup you’ve never heard of — but with a valuation of $256.5 million in less than two years, an all-star team featuring seven former founders and CEOs, and partnerships with over 600 school campuses, the Mayo Clinic, and the US Olympic Team, it’s not likely to stay that way for long.