Latest Tough tech Podcast Episodes
Leading the century of atoms, featuring Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga of SandboxAQ
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - June 11, 2024 09:00 - 47 minutesMelding quantum mechanics with artificial intelligence is going to change how we understand our world. Several years ago, a small team was pursuing a deeper understanding of the quantum sciences while tracking advancements in machine intelligence. Combining two complex and misunderstood fields ...
Cultivating billion-dollar narwhals, featuring Adam de Sola Pool
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - May 07, 2024 09:00 - 43 minutesWhere is the money in oceanographic research? Fundamental understanding of the watery parts of our planet (i.e. most of it) is woefully under pursued. However, just as it seems some ocean systems are almost falling apart – coral bleaching, rising tides, species extinctions – we are beginning t...
Reimagining coastal transportation, featuring Billy Thalheimer of REGENT Craft
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - March 14, 2024 00:00 - 30 minutesIt’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… technically a flying boat! When challenged to imagine how to electrify aviation, Billy Thalheimer, CEO and co-founder of REGENT Craft, and his team set to work looking at what has been done with hydroplanes before – and what emerging technologies are available t...
Deploying undersea explorers, featuring Jeff Smith of Saab
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - February 13, 2024 17:00 - 54 minutesThe blue parts of our planet are beautiful yet stunningly punishing for even our toughest of technologies. Dark, crushing, unexplored, and unknown – the depths of the seas are where an explorer like Jeff Smith has devoted his career to understanding. As the Vice President and General Manager of...
Tough Tech Today Season 4 Preview: Exploring Oceans, Quantum Realms, and Machine Intelligence
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - January 09, 2024 10:00 - 13 minutesTough Tech Today is transitioning seasons, recapping our Season 3 themes exploring the tough tech domains of biology, space, and fusion energy. We are also preparing for the show's fourth season and we are really excited for it! Upcoming themes: Blue tech – The advanced technologies of the mar...
Fusing atoms with lasers, featuring Thomas Forner and Pravesh Patel of Focused Energy
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - December 12, 2023 10:00 - 50 minutesIf this company perfectly combines lasers and atoms, the reaction could be worth trillions of dollars. Focused Energy’s Thomas Forner, CEO, and Pravesh Patel, CTO, join us to talk about making lasers. Lots and lots of lasers. But for what aim? They are pointing hundreds of directed beams at a t...
Bringing fusion to the grid, featuring Tina Tosukhowong of TDK Ventures
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - November 14, 2023 10:00 - 45 minutesInvestors are betting big on clean energy becoming the norm. Tina Tosukhowong of TDK Ventures joins us for a review of the major approaches to curbing carbon emissions in hard-to-abate industries. A thorough assessment led Tosukhowong to opportunities for practical, grid-scale fusion. TDK Ventu...
The Star Machine: How Proxima Fusion is Powering the Sustainable Grid! Featuring Francesco Sciortino
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - October 10, 2023 08:00 - 59 minutesHow do we harness the power of the stars to deliver clean energy on Earth? It has been a collective goal – and, perhaps, an impending imperative – for human civilization to secure renewable energy sources for its present and future needs. The team at Proxima Fusion (https://www.proximafusion.co...
Mastering Billion-Dollar Tech Investments & Galactic Defense 💸🛰️👾 featuring Preston Dunlap
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - September 12, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutesStanding up a space force within the world’s largest bureaucracy is not for the faint of heart. Preston Dunlap – former (and first) Chief Architect / Chief Technology Officer of the United States Air Force and Space Force and present CEO of Arkenstone Ventures – has developed a privileged view ...
Tracking weather from space, featuring Scarlett Killer of Mithril Technologies
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - August 08, 2023 09:00 - 51 minutesAn early-stage startup will offer unparalleled weather data when it unfolds its orbital sensors. Captivated by the stars and focused on improving life on Earth, Mithril Technologies founder and CEO, Scarlett Koller, is venturing into weather awareness and storm tracking by launching and commerc...
Tracking weather from space, featuring Scarlett Koller of Mithril Technologies
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - August 08, 2023 09:00 - 51 minutesAn early-stage startup will offer unparalleled weather data when it unfolds its orbital sensors. Captivated by the stars and focused on improving life on Earth, Mithril Technologies founder and CEO, Scarlett Koller, is venturing into weather awareness and storm tracking by launching and commerc...
Betting on Space, featuring Chad Anderson of Space Capital
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - July 11, 2023 09:00 - 59 minutesIn one sentence: The space economy is booming in more ways than one. Space-based assets are changing the way industries operate on Earth. Chad Anderson – Founder and Managing Partner at Space Capital – is one of those individuals who has a deep perspective on the what it is like backing the entr...
Orchestrating microbes, featuring Cheri Ackerman of Concerto Biosciences
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - June 13, 2023 12:00 - 55 minutesIn one sentence... The interactions of the microbial world within us has been incredibly difficult to see – until now. From the depths of our intestines to the surface of our skin, our bodies are host to trillions of microbial cells spanning thousands of species. While critical to helping us to...
Unveiling age-defying proteins, featuring Mark Allen of Elevian
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - May 09, 2023 13:00 - 1 hourIn one sentence... Aging is malleable and there is a particular, mysterious protein of interest that may enable new therapies for age-related diseases such as stroke, diabetes, and obesity. Young blood in old bodies has been demonstrated in several studies to counteract some age-correlated ail...
Creating new and better medicines, featuring Virginia Burger of New Equilibrium Biosciences
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - April 11, 2023 15:00 - 53 minutesIn one sentence... Computational biology is enhancing our understanding of intrinsically disordered proteins, leading to exciting new medical treatments. Overview From videogames to protein discovery, high performance computing impacts how we understand and engage with each other and the worl...
Creating new and better medicines, featuring Virginia Burger
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - April 11, 2023 15:00 - 53 minutesIn one sentence... Computational biology is enhancing our understanding of intrinsically disordered proteins, leading to exciting new medical treatments. Overview From videogames to protein discovery, high performance computing impacts how we understand and engage with each other and the worl...
JMill & Forrest's Epic Reveal: New Tough Tech Today Season, Monthly Groove & Upcoming Themes! 🚀🧬🔋
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - April 07, 2023 12:00 - 3 minutesJoin a tag-up among JMill and Forrest as we reveal something really exciting for what’s ahead: the launch of the newest season of Tough Tech Today! Plus, we mention work and babies. We set the stage for our new monthly cadence, with a new release occurring on the second Tuesday of each month. E...
M12 bets big on the digital frontier with Matt Goldstein
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - June 22, 2021 16:00 - 58 minutesDigitization of the physical world brings new synergies and expanding attack surfaces – so it is key to invest in those who defend us. ————— Overview: Probing the cybersecurity of 3D printing, scaling the digital transformation of manufacturing, and developing quantum-safe encryption for th...
Synthesizing High-Tech Food is TOUGH, featuring Kate Krueger of Helikon
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - April 08, 2021 14:00 - 52 minutesIn one sentence: “Synthesizing” and “food” are uncommon word pairings, but the engineered dishes they serve may be an appetizing feast for the senses. Overview: Climate change, a growing global population, and maturation of new biotechnologies are driving the motivation for – and means of – pr...
Exposing cancer with bioengineering, featuring Cyriac Roeding of Earli
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - March 23, 2021 16:00 - 1 hourIn one sentence: We can make cancer cells tell us exactly where they are. ————— Overview: Consumer internet entrepreneurs lack many of the skills for the life sciences revolution – or do they? Cyriac Roeding, CEO and co-founder of Earli, shows us what his team of bioengineers are accomplishin...
Jmill goes glamping while Forrest lands on Mars and launches a new company.
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - March 02, 2021 20:00 - 7 minutesJust a quick Tough Tech Today update as we take a bye week and prepare for our guest in two weeks.
Google Maps for gold? AI-Assisted Mine Prospecting is Tough!
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - February 18, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutesIn one sentence: When the frontiers of geology overlap with the frontlines of contested regions, international collaborations help protect minerals core to our civilization. ————— Overview: There’s a world of minerals in every electronic device. Anything that cannot be grown must be mined, Emil...
Unlocking new mRNA Treatments with Jake Becraft, CEO of Strand Therapeutics
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - February 02, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutesIn one sentence: Unlocking new mRNA treatments will save lives, but it's not as simple as that. ————— Overview ————— Jake Becraft of Strand Therapeutics is an expert in designing and programming mRNA, critical strands of genetic material that provide instructions for making proteins. As one suit...
Freedom Without Fear - Making injections effortless with autoinjector tech to saves lives, with Conor Cullinane of Pirouette Medical
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - January 13, 2021 18:00 - 1 hourIn one sentence: A needle shaped like a hockey puck is a ‘revolutionary’ medical device that can deliver epinephrine during a severe allergic reaction on Earth or in space. ————— Overview ————— EpiPens and other emergency auto-injectors have changed little for decades, though there are known l...
Tough Tech Today in 2020 and Beyond (Year in Review)
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - January 01, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutesA chat to review the first year of Tough Tech Today.
$2.5B Exit Entrepreneur, Sujal Patel, is Creating a Proteomics Startup to Upgrade Human Health
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - December 15, 2020 23:00 - 55 minutesIn one sentence... Human health upgrades may be unlocked by a data storage expert focused on probing the proteome. Overview: It’s not everyday that one hears about the crucial relationship between digital data storage and biology, yet this is core to Sujal Patel’s work leading Nautilus Biot...
A moon rover startup gears up for launch, featuring Justin Cyrus of Lunar Outpost
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - December 01, 2020 15:00 - 41 minutesIn one sentence... Living on the Moon requires infrastructure that Justin Cyrus of Lunar Outpost knows can be helpful here on Earth. Overview Earth’s moon is viewed as the upcoming base of operations for humanity’s further exploration of the cosmos. Justin Cyrus, founder of Lunar Outpost, sha...
When tough tech and dual-use ventures collide, with the U.S. Air Force Banshee Program
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - November 17, 2020 21:00 - 34 minutesBanshees of the United States Air Force hunt for mission-enhancing technologies. The world's largest startup accelerator, MassChallenge, teamed up with the Air Force Labs to establish the Banshees training program. Members are U.S. Department of Defense acquisitions officers who are learning h...
Bringing heroes home, featuring Caleb Carr of Vita Inclinata
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - November 03, 2020 22:00 - 48 minutesIn one sentence... A helicopter rescue mission gone awry fuels this man’s mission to bring heroes home safely with drones built for aircraft load stabilization. Overview As a Black Hawk helicopter’s rotors whop-whop-whopped overhead in their fight for command of the winds amid a stormy – and ...
Bootstrapping mass spectrometry, featuring Mazdak Taghioskoui of Trace Matters
Tough Tech Today with Meyen and Miller - October 20, 2020 18:00 - 45 minutesHe built a mass spectrometer from scratch and reinvented it in the process! Bearing a smile, Mazdak “Maz” Taghioskoui says he immigrated to the United States from Iran for a good education and same-day shipping, two key features that have supported his focus on building – from scratch – a sophi...
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