Deep Tech Stories

Hampus Jakobsson on starting a Climate Fund, specialised funds and start-up stages

September 05, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MB

In the last episode, we explored Hampus' journey from mandatory military service to university, where they started their company with the sole goal of not working for a big corporate entity. Throughout this time, he experienced a lot of paradigm shifts, learning that not only can he solve problems he thought he wouldn't be able to, but also being able to define the problem, to begin with, even when there are plenty of more experienced people around him. These paradigm shifts continued after ...

Pale Blue Dot GP Hampus Jakobsson on Curiosity, starting a company in University and climate change.

July 06, 2023 06:00 - 40 minutes - 56 MB

The climate crisis is one of the most urgent challenges we face today. And while there are many different things one can do as an individual, it is easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it. Hampus, like many of us, felt that way when he was working as a venture capitalist after selling his company to BlackBerry. But instead of letting it paralyze him, he turned his concern into action. He decided to focus his life on combating climate change by starting his own climate tech fund. Du...

Pivoting Amidst a Pandemic: Robert Lauritzen's Journey to Revolutionize Medical Tech

February 20, 2023 06:00 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MB

In this second part of Deep Tech Stories, we dive into the founding story of Cerebriu and how Robert Lauritzen and his co-founders struggled with CoViD and GDPR, making it nearly impossible to get their software past hospital management and into scanners. So it is 2018 and Robert and his co-founders just came together to form Cerebriu with 6 months of runway. Over the last years of his career Robert learned how to manage hundreds of people spread across the globe and eventually become self-...

Cerebriu CEO Robert Lauritzen - Revolutionizing medical imaging with machine learning

February 03, 2023 06:00 - 26 minutes - 36.3 MB

Have you ever laid inside an MRI machine, listening to the loud buzzing and thumping sounds, wondering what's going on outside? It's a strange experience, lying there, helpless, relying on the machine to give doctors a glimpse inside your body. But in the end, the doctors still need to interpret that glimpse by themselves, often with the help of a radiologist, which takes time and resources. So it seems like the perfect task to automate and reach super-human performance using Machine Lea...

Casper Wilstrup - Self-management, transparency and a new kind of AI to revolutionize science

December 16, 2022 06:00 - 52 minutes - 72.3 MB

So it's 2012, and Casper is at the end of a sabbatical he started after leaving the hardware startup he started during his studies, Unispeed, at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. Just as he was starting to head back into the job market, deep learning achieved a major breakthrough in object classification, propelling the technology to the heights it is now. This is also when AI sparked Casper's interest, and he remembered his old idea. If you enjoyed this episode, why not recommend i...

Abzu CEO Casper Wilstrup - The Path to inventing a New Kind of AI

December 02, 2022 06:00 - 38 minutes - 53 MB

Modern AI in particular, so-called deep learning is everywhere. Alone in the last few months, a new generation of image generation based on text prompts emerged that is arguably on par with human artists. However, in many crucial applications, the black-box nature of such models is a problem. If you want to let the AI drive a car, no regulator or decision maker will allow it. The same is true for any applications that deal with scientific understanding. You want to understand why the AI come...

Martin Hassler Hallstedt turning a Psychology PhD degree into a research based Maths gaming app

November 18, 2022 06:00 - 26 minutes - 36 MB

In this second episode with Martin Hassler Hallstedt in Deep Tech Stories, we continue where we last left off. Martin just finished his PhD degree in Psychology. The degree he started with the purpose of building an app, making the most recent empiric learning research available to kids teaching them maths. If you enjoyed this episode, why not recommend it to a friend? Homepage: https://www.deeptechstories.io Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/deeptechpod My Twitter: https://twitter.co...

Martin Hassler Hallstedt on using Psychology research to teach kids Math

November 04, 2022 06:00 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MB

If you look at the majority of education systems, you'll notice that there is little to no change between today's kid's experiences and their parent's or grandparents. Yet the rest of the world never stopped evolving. Our old education systems are just not suited anymore to cope with the requirements of the modern world. Especially when it is estimated that 65% of today's children will have jobs that don't yet exist. One way to fix this is by bringing modern tech into the classroom and ind...

Karin Ebbinghaus on how she changed careers to become a Deep Tech CEO

October 21, 2022 07:00 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MB

For some people, the entrepreneurial path seems like the most obvious. Others fall into it after a long time of trying out other things. Other people again actually never start a company but have so much operational talent and domain knowledge that they've learned throughout their career, that they still end up as the spearhead of the company. Karin Ebbinghaus is one of those last people. For the majority of her career, she worked in the legal field, becoming an expert in mergers and acquisi...

Elonroad CEO Karin Ebbinghaus: Building electric roads and boosting electric cars' range

October 07, 2022 07:00 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MB

Earlier this year, the European Union approved ending the sale of vehicles with internal combustion engines by 2035 to reach the carbon emission targets by 2050. This means, from 2035 on, you will only be able to buy electric vehicles. And while EVs have seen an impressive leap in reach and accessibility in the last decade, there are still many things to buff out to allow for widespread adoption. High on the list of those issues are a lacking charging infrastructure, reach and grid overload...

Mamoun Taher on Graphamtechs’ origin story

September 23, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes - 32 MB

In the last episode, Mahmoun Taher explained what Graphene is and dove more into the details of what they're doing at Graphmatech to accelerate commercial application. Like many Deep Tech companies, Graphmatech started based on research at University. In this case, Mahmoun's research as a PostDoc at Uppsala University lead to him starting Graphmatech. But similarly to Jacinto from Peafowl Photovoltaics, he was a researcher with no previous entrepreneurial experience and in search of lab spac...

Graphmatech CEO Mamoun Taher on Graphene as a revolution in Material Science

September 09, 2022 07:00 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MB

In the modern age, we have become quite the experts at designing and coming up with materials for specific purposes. Depending on the desired property, we can mix different compounds to get whatever we want. And now and then we come across a new material hailed as the new super material. In the last century that was plastic, and now through a Nobel prize-winning discovery, it is something called Graphene. It is a strange two-dimensional material, wholly made out of carbon that somehow is str...

Wilbe COO Devika Thapar on building a Home for scientific entrepreneurs

November 26, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MB

The start-up news is dominated by headlines of who got how much funding, so it seems as if funding is the only thing that you need to succeed. But if you look at a few of the previous guests, a lot of them struggled one step earlier. Vultus Robert Schmitt started out flying Drones over fields, before switching to satellite pictures. Aslak Stubsgaard had the benefit of funding Copenhagen Atomics with experienced founders and Jacinto of Peafowl Solarpower was forwarded to the university accele...

Wilbe COO Devika Thapar on building a Home for scientific entrepreneurs (Part 1)

November 26, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MB

The start-up news is dominated by headlines of who got how much funding, so it seems as if funding is the only thing that you need to succeed. But if you look at a few of the previous guests, a lot of them struggled one step earlier. Vultus Robert Schmitt started out with flying Drones over fields, before switching to satellite pictures. Aslak Stubsgaard had the benefit of funding Copenhagen Atomics with experienced founders and Jacinto of Peafowl Solarpower was forwarded to the university ac...

Jacinto Sá on the first steps in building a company from research (Part 2)

October 22, 2021 05:00 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MB

In the last episode of "Deep Tech Stories", Jacinto Sá explained Peafowl Solarpowers proprietary solar cell technology. We explored how the plasmonic approach completely differs from a normal solar cell and how they make it transparent. (Can go a bit longer here) However, we didn't touch on how they went from their original research to starting a company. In general, there are quite a few things to consider. How does one know it is a viable product? How does one find the first customers? An...

Professor Jacinto Sá explains the new physics of his transparent solar cells (Part 1)

October 04, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MB

Ever since the first photovoltaic cell in 1954 by Bell Labs, the basic principle behind the technology stayed the same. Exploiting the photoelectric effect, first explained by Einstein in his miracle year of 1905, a light-particle can kick out an electron of a material if it has just the right energy. Through the smart combining of two types of semiconductors, this electron leads to a current in the material, which in the end can be used. Now while over the decades the efficiency of photovol...

Part 2: Aslak Stubsgaard explains how to build a nuclear start-up and a unique approach to developing a reactor

September 09, 2021 07:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MB

In the last episode, Copenhagen Atomics CTO explained the details of their breeder molten salt reactor. However, so far we left out how they started the company, funded operations for the last 6 years and their unique approach to building reactors, while simultaneously dealing with the legal and practical issues of wanting to deal with fissile material. But before that Aslak explains how he got into the topic of nuclear reactors and how he met his co-founders. If you enjoyed this episode, w...

Copenhagen Atomics CTO Aslak Stubsgaard explains how to build a nuclear start-up and a unique approach to developing a reactor

September 09, 2021 07:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MB

In the last episode, Copenhagen Atomics CTO explained the details of their breeder molten salt reactor. However, so far we left out how they started the company, funded operations for the last 6 years and their unique approach to building reactors, while simultaneously dealing with the legal and practical issues of wanting to deal with fissile material. But before that Aslak explains how he got into the topic of nuclear reactors and how he met his co-founders. If you enjoyed this episode, why...

Part 1: Copenhagen Atomics CTO Aslak Stubsgaard on the fascinating Details of Breeder Molten Salt Reactors

August 25, 2021 07:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

In a prior episode, I talked with Sean Kenny about so-called fourth-generation nuclear reactors. In particular, on their benefits and advantages compared to classical light-water reactors. However, we didn't talk about how companies build those new nuclear reactors. Oddly enough it is not that hard to build a light-water reactor and keep it stable. We first added nuclear reactors to the power grid in the 1950s ... without the help of a computer. Yet nowadays it is quite common for a construc...

Copenhagen Atomics CTO Aslak Stubsgaard on the fascinating Details of Breeder Molten Salt Reactors

August 25, 2021 07:00 - 31 minutes - 20.7 MB

In a prior episode, I talked with Sean Kenny about so-called fourth-generation nuclear reactors. In particular, on their benefits and advantages compared to classical light-water reactors. However, we didn't talk about how companies build those new nuclear reactors. Oddly enough it is not that hard to build a light-water reactor and keep it stable. We first added nuclear reactors to the power grid in the 1950s ... without the help of a computer. Yet nowadays it is quite common for a construct...

Professor Caterina Doglioni on the Hunt for Dark Matter, Career Decisions and the Academic Environment

August 01, 2021 07:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MB

When most people think about particle accelerators like CERN, they don't necessarily think of useful innovation with societal impact. It's just theoretical tinkering without much real-world application after all. However, this couldn't be further from the truth. Improvements in particle accelerators that were necessary to discover new physics lead to many inventions over the years. Among the most prominent stand the majority of modern medical imaging technology and the internet, allowing for...

EP03: Podcast Host Sean Kenny on Principles and Benefits of (Thorium) Molten Salt Reactors

July 15, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MB

With climate change as the biggest threat to humanity, we're struggling to avoid or even reverse further consequences. According to the intergovernmental panel on climate change, 25% of 2010 emitted greenhouse gases come from electricity and heat production via fossil fuels as the biggest contributor. While renewable energies provide an obvious alternative, they don't come without their own downsides, such as a strong variance of power production throughout the day and seasons. Another altern...

Podcast Host Sean Kenny on Principles and Benefits of (Thorium) Molten Salt Reactors

July 15, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 49.1 MB

With climate change as the biggest threat to humanity, we're struggling to avoid or even reverse further consequences. According to the intergovernmental panel on climate change, 25% of 2010 emitted greenhouse gases come from electricity and heat production via fossil fuels as the biggest contributor. While renewable energies provide an obvious alternative, they don't come without their own downsides, such as a strong variance of power production throughout the day and seasons. Another alter...

EP02: Robert Schmitt on Precision Farming, Drone vs. Satellite images and Seasonality

July 15, 2021 09:55 - 1 hour - 62.5 MB

So far agriculture has been undergoing two revolutions. The first was due to motorized vehicles at the beginning of the 20th century, boosting the number of people a farmer feeds to 26. The second revolution involved the genetic modification of crops, increasing the number of fed people to 156 per farmer. With the expected increase of the human population to close to 10 billion by 2050, we effectively need to double our food production. Behold the current third agricultural revolution: Precis...

Robert Schmitt on Precision Farming, Drone vs. Satellite images and Seasonality

July 15, 2021 09:55 - 1 hour - 59.3 MB

So far agriculture has been undergoing two revolutions. The first was due to motorized vehicles at the beginning of the 20th century, boosting the number of people a farmer feeds to 26. The second revolution involved the genetic modification of crops, increasing the number of fed people to 156 per farmer. With the expected increase of the human population to close to 10 billion by 2050, we effectively need to double our food production. Behold the current third agricultural revolution: Preci...

Researcher Uli Gallersdörfer on Blockchains, Bitcoin, Environmental Impact and Design Choices

July 15, 2021 09:50 - 59 minutes - 47.5 MB

Not many innovations have the power to shape the world on a massive scale like the internet. However, after the great financial crisis of 2007/08, one exactly such innovation came along. The blockchain. In 2008 a whitepaper named "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" was mailed out to a cryptographic mailing list and only shortly after the bitcoin network went live. Today twelve years after the first block the technology is widely known. Yet, barely anyone actually understands it....

EP01: Researcher Uli Gallersdörfer on Blockchains, Bitcoin, Environmental Impact and Design Choices

July 15, 2021 09:50 - 59 minutes - 50.5 MB

Not many innovations have the power to shape the world on a massive scale like the internet. However, after the great financial crisis of 2007/08, one exactly such innovation came along. The blockchain. In 2008 a whitepaper named "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" was mailed out to a cryptographic mailing list and only shortly after the bitcoin network went live. Today twelve years after the first block the technology is widely known. Yet, barely anyone actually understands it. ...

"Deep Tech Stories"-Trailer

July 14, 2021 08:00 - 53 seconds - 943 KB

What do you need to start a nuclear power start-up? How do you build a company from cutting-edge research? And how do you convince Venture Capitalists to support your quantum computing company? Deep tech companies are based on significant scientific or engineering challenges, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, nuclear fission and every other crazy thing you can and cannot yet imagine. My name is Philipp. Currently, I am a PhD student in theoretical physics and in "Deep Tech Stories...

DeepTechStories Trailer

July 14, 2021 07:00 - 53 seconds - 943 KB

What do you need to start a nuclear power start-up? How do you build a company from cutting-edge research? And how do you convince Venture Capitalists to support your quantum computing company? Deep tech companies are based on significant scientific or engineering challenges, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, nuclear fission and every other crazy thing you can and cannot yet imagine. My name is Philipp. Currently, I am a PhD student in theoretical physics and in DeepTechStories, I...

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