Another fantastic episode of ScaleUp Radio – a fascinating discussion with Alia Rohafza, who's the CEO of Altered Carbon.

This is amazing technology that they're looking at here so it’s a bit about high tech and he's on a ScaleUp Journey where they've already raised two rounds of investment and working with companies to help to prove their concept. 

Imagine being able to create on a bit of graphene on a chip, something that's the equivalent of a nose, or a smell centre. So a dog or eventually, ideally, human nose. 

And if you think about all the potential applications of that from whether food is going off to the escape of dangerous gases, all sorts of applications, in fact, that's one of their biggest challenges is how do they rein it in and decide exactly where they should focus.

We'll learn a lot about the way that Ali approached the idea of raising funding both for that first and for the second rounds. It's also interesting that his biggest challenge is not necessarily around the technology but as always, or as is very often the case it's around people. 

So it doesn't really matter whether you're in a high tech manufacturing business, whether you're in a service business, whatever kind of business you're in, there's some really great learnings from Ali.

And he's very open and honest and prepared to share everything that that he could, so I know you'll get a lot of value out of it. So let's go over and listen to Ali and his story so far.

 

Ali can be found here:

linkedin.com/in/ali-rohafza-altered-carbon-ltd

https://altered-carbon.com/

[email protected]

 

Resources

Hannover Messe - https://www.hannovermesse.de/en/hannover-messe-2023/

IOT For All Podcast - https://www.iotforall.com/podcasts

Asana - https://asana.com/

Trello - https://trello.com/

Otter - https://otter.ai/

Grammarly - https://www.grammarly.com/

 

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