The nuclear company that started with a LinkedIn message
Nuclear Turbines has raised £15 million to build a reactor small enough to sit inside a factory. Two years ago it was an idea and a cold LinkedIn message. This is how we built the company around it.
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Backing Europe's best fusion bet
Proxima Fusion has raised €411m, the largest private fusion round Europe has ever seen. The Munich site visit that led there, and why Empirical Ventures is backing the stellarator.
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Neural probes, fellows, and the future of deep tech
A year spent turning five Schmidt Science Fellows' research programmes into ventures, from neural probes to landslide modelling, closing at Duke.
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“Scientists can't do business”
The title of my mainstage talk at Alpha Summit Americas in San Francisco, and the argument for why it is the most expensive lie in deep tech.
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On the ground at CATL's Munich launch
CATL's TENER Sodium is the first real-world validated sodium-ion storage system. Why sodium answers the two constraints that have always held lithium back at grid scale.
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Chairing the Innovation Arc panel at London Tech Week
The UK is finally producing world-class spinouts at scale. But there is no point producing thousands of companies if none of them can grow.
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Joining SXSW London as a Venture Spotlight judge
Judging the flagship funding competition backing the next generation of European founders.
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At the Huawei Shanghai launch: the future of chip design
Moore's Law has guided chip design for 50 years, and Huawei just proposed a way around it. Inside LogicFolding, and the roundtable that followed.
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Is the UK backing its deep-tech founders?
The UK is not short of talent or ideas. What is missing is domestic capital with the conviction to back these companies as they scale.
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Deep tech meets science commercialisation
A series of masterclasses with Schmidt Science Fellows on the innovation process, market need, and raising investment. In six weeks they proved a point.
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Should universities take equity in spinouts?
Writing in The Times on the future of university spinouts, and a simple idea at the heart of it.
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What I learnt as a venture scientist
Speaking to The Times about the move from PhD physics to entrepreneurship, and why good researchers make good founders.
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Sitting down with Zulfi Alam, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Quantum, on the world's first topological quantum chip.
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