Conversations

Building End-to-End Space Communications with Cascade Space’s Jacob Portukalian

Jacob Portukalian is the co-founder and CEO of Cascade Space, a company developing comprehensive communication solutions for spacecraft.

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Investing at the Critical Edge of National Security with Squadra Ventures’ Guy Filippelli

Guy Filippelli is the founder and managing partner of Squadra Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on national security and cybersecurity investments.

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Quantum’s Path to Commercial Viability with APEX Ventures’ Ion Hauer

Ion Hauer is a principal at APEX Ventures, a European early-stage fund investing in deep tech across advanced computing, robotics, space, energy and medical.

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Scaling Deep Tech in the UK with Cambridge Future Tech’s Katie Underwood

Katie Underwood is partner at Cambridge Future Tech, a deep tech venture builder that creates companies from nascent IP emerging from university labs and corporate research groups.

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Decarbonizing Industrial Hydrogen with Tulum Energy’s Max Pieri

Max Pieri is the CEO of Tulum Energy, a company using electric arc furnace technology to produce clean hydrogen through methane pyrolysis.

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Redefining Longevity Medicine with Circulate Health’s Brad Younggren

Brad Younggren is the CEO and co-founder of Circulate Health, a company pioneering outpatient therapeutic plasma exchange for longevity and chronic disease treatment.

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Making Quantum Computing’s Promise a Reality with XPRIZE’s Kathrin Spendier

Kathrin Spendier is the technical prize director for XPRIZE Quantum Applications, a competition focused on developing quantum algorithms to solve society’s most pressing challenges.

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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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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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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.