Maria Artunduaga, CEO of Samay, has been named an awardee of the Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award 2026, one of just 15 women selected from more than 1,100 applicants across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and one of only five from Latin America. Samay’s wearable acoustic resonance and AI platform, Sylvee, backed by 22 granted and allowed patents across 17 jurisdictions, replaces massive, effort-dependent machinery with a light-effort, five-minute test, bringing institutional-grade lung diagnostics to communities far from major hospitals.
Maria Artunduaga, CEO of Samay, named an awardee of the Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award 2026
