Episodes

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 experienc...

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, fe...

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...

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 glimps...

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 int...

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 cru...

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, maki...

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...

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 an...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 t...

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-par...

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 approac...

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 co...

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, thi...

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...

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 gene...

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 n...

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 o...