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Building Stratospheric Robots with Near Space Labs’ Rema Matevosyan
Rema Matevosyan is the CEO and cofounder of Near Space Labs, which builds robotic platforms for very high resolution and rapid response imagery from the stratosphere.
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Rema Matevosyan is the CEO and cofounder of Near Space Labs, which builds robotic platforms for very high resolution and rapid response imagery from the stratosphere.
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Paolo Pirjanian is the CEO and cofounder of the social robotics company Embodied and a general partner at Calibrate Ventures, an early stage deep tech investment firm. The following interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length.
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Zac Townsend is the CEO and founder of Meanwhile, the world’s first Bitcoin native life insurer.
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Joel Anderson is the founder and CEO of ZeroMark, a defense tech startup that used AI and robotics to build a “gun that never misses” to protect warfighters from a growing drone threat.
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