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Defense Tech Meets Commercial Markets with Marlinspike’s Neil Keegan
Neil Keegan is the founder and managing partner of Marlinspike, an early-stage fund investing in dual-use technologies across defense and commercial markets.
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DTN 125: Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
Plus: Army's laser weapon, Tesla shutters Dojo, solar-powered moon brick factory, NASA rewrites the rules for private space stations, AI chip tariffs, and more.
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Decoding Technical Illegibility with Atypical Ventures’ Chris Wake
Chris Wake is founding partner at Atypical Ventures, a New York-based VC firm investing in frontier ideas across atoms, bits, and cells.
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Perfecting Imperfect Fusion with Thea Energy’s Brian Berzin
Brian Berzin is the CEO and cofounder of Thea Energy, a fusion energy company developing stellarators using programmable planar coil magnet arrays for commercial power generation.
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DTN 124: LuSEE in the Sky with Diamonds
Plus: A secret plan to dim the sun, experimental robotic surgery, over-the-air internet lasers, quantum sensors on DoD space plane, and more.
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Escaping Deep Tech’s Valley of Death with Actuate Ventures’ Christopher Le
Christopher Le is managing partner at Actuate Ventures, a deep tech venture firm focused on space technology and providing “co-founders in a box” support to early-stage startups.
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Fusion power on the high seas with Maritime Fusion’s Justin Cohen
Justin Cohen is the founder of Maritime Fusion, a company developing compact tokamak fusion reactors specifically designed to power large vessels.
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DTN 123: Global Space Economy Breaks New Record
Plus: NASA taps industry for interplanetary communication, fusion reactor alchemy, AI etiquette, robots eating robots, first antimatter quantum bit, and more.
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Why Deep Tech Needs Human-Centric Design with Strange Ventures’ Tara Tan
Tara Tan is founder and general partner at Strange Ventures, an early-stage fund investing in inventor-CEOs building the future of computing.
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Modular Fusion Reactors for the Private Sector with Realta Fusion’s Kieran Furlong
Kieran Furlong is the CEO and co-founder of Realta Fusion, developing compact, scalable and modular fusion reactors based on magnetic mirror technology.
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DTN 122: California Forever
Plus: Underwater kamikaze drones, AI-managed blackouts, EV batteries for data centers, 3D-printed lung tissue, mixing cement at sea, and more.
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Investing lessons from West Point to The Apprentice with Moonshots Capital’s Kelly Perdew
Kelly Perdew is co-founder and managing general partner of Moonshots Capital, an early-stage VC firm investing in extraordinary leadership.