Conversations

Humanizing Deep Tech with Card79’s Afshin Mehin

Afshin Mehin is the founder of Card79, a creative studio based in San Francisco that focuses on tackling complex and future-facing projects ranging from brain computer interfaces to autonomous vehicles.

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Acoustic Alkaline Electrolysis for Hydrogen with Hydrosonics’ Luis Chavez

Luis Chavez is the CEO and founder of Hydrosonics, a startup building electrolysis technologies that enable small-scale and affordable on-site hydrogen production fully integrated with renewable electricity. Hydrosonics’ products are unlocking hydrogen as the fuel of the green future.

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AI Drug Discovery with NeuroX1’s Max Dordevic

Max Dordevic is the CEO and co-founder of NeuroX1, a physics-based AI drug discovery company focused on small molecule therapeutics for neurological diseases.

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Capitalizing Climate Tech at Scale with Third Sphere’s Shaun Abrahamson

Shaun Abrahamson is the managing partner and co-founder of Third Sphere, an early-stage fund investing in rapidly scalable technologies for climate change adaptation and resilience. 

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Interstellar Space Travel with Limitless Space Institute’s Sonny White

Harold “Sonny” White is the Director of Advanced Research and Development at Limitless Space Institute, a nonprofit whose goal is to inspire and educate the next generation to travel beyond our solar system and to research and develop the advanced power and propulsion technologies to make it happen.

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AI and the Birth of TechMed with DCVC’s Alan Cohen

Alan Cohen is a general partner at DCVC, a deep tech VC firm backing entre­pre­neurs using compu­ta­tional approaches to solve trillion-dollar problems.

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Turning Sunlight Into Natural Gas with Terraform Industries’ Casey Handmer

Casey Handmer is the founder and CEO of Terraform Industries, a company that produces renewable synthetic fuel at scale by combining solar energy with atmospheric CO2 and water.

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Space Tugs and Orbital Factories with Obruta’s Kevin Stadnyk

Kevin Stadnyk is the CEO and co-founder of Obruta Space Solutions, a company working to ensure the sustainability of the orbital economy with autonomous spacecraft navigation systems. 

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Eco-Friendly Deep-Sea Mining with Impossible Metals’ Oliver Gunasekara

Oliver Gunsekara is the CEO and co-founder of Impossible Metals, developing an innovative fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) designed to selectively harvest polymetallic nodules from the ocean floor while minimizing environmental impact.

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Manufacturing Robots in Space with Oluseun Taiwo of Solideon

Oluseun Taiwo, co-founder and CEO of Solideon, is revolutionizing aerospace manufacturing through the integration of AI, ML, collaborative robots, and cutting-edge 3D printing techniques.

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Climate, Conflict, and Direct Air Capture with Airhive’s Rory Brown

Rory Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Airhive, a UK startup pioneering a hybrid geochemical-DAC technology that harnesses fluidization to achieve rapid, cost-effective CO2 removal. 

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From F1 to 3D Printed Batteries with Material’s Gabe Elias

Gabe Elias is the CEO of Material Hybrid Manufacturing, a company actualizing research on multi-material 3D printing for battery applications.