Christian Tang-Jespersen

Copenhagen Atomics (copenhagen atomics) is an ambitious Danish company with a bold, potentially world-changing vision. They're driven by a goal of manufacturing one reactor per day from a high quality, certified factory. If they achieve that goal, they would be adding an additional 37 GW/year of heat to the global energy supply. They want to help make affordable, reliable, clean and abundant energy available to everyone on the planet. Copenhagen Atomics is developing a molten salt reactor that uses a kickstarter actinide fuel (U-233, U-235 or Pu-239) along with a thorium blanket and heavy water moderator to produce 100 MW of heat. The nuclear heat source system – including pumps, tanks, pipes, valves and the proprietary "onion core" reactor – fits into a standard shipping container. After 5 years of operation, the molten salt contains almost as much fissile material as it did when it was initially loaded into the fuel. Thomas Jam Pedersen (Thomas Jam Pedersen) is a co-founder and the CEO of Copenhagen Atomics. He recently visited me on the Atomic Show to describe his company, its history, its vision and its technology. He provided a wealth of information during a lengthy conversation and also shared a brief about the company, its facilities, its potential markets and the physical fabrication and testing units. https://lnkd.in/eYZKEiDF

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Strong news from Denmark’s deep tech scene IDUN audio has secured a key U.S. patent for its breakthrough in real-time time-varying HRTFs – enabling ultra-precise, low-latency head tracking and truly immersive spatial audio! This is more than a technical win – it opens new doors for gaming, VR, music, teleconferencing, and wellness tech. A big step forward for Danish innovation and a great example of how cutting-edge IP can shape global markets. #AudioTech #SpatialAudio #DeepTech #Innovation #VR #Gaming #HeadsetTechnology #Denmark

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Climeworks is an early innovator in the Direct Air Capture of CO₂ industry and has been the subject of criticism due to the reported poor performance of its system in Iceland (https://lnkd.in/db9peV2B). That criticism has expanded to infer that the DAC industry is not viable. We challenge this conclusion. Consider the innovation cycle in wind turbines and solar PV required to bring these technologies from invention to the point that they are economic and widely adopted. The DAC industry is on a similar journey. Climeworks has been the pioneer that others in the DAC industry have watched closely and we have all learned from their deployment innovation cycles. The innovation experience of the NEG8 Carbon team is a case in point. We started in 2014 as a research project in an Irish University and began our commercialisation in 2021. We have invented new DAC technologies every year which have helped bring down the power consumption and cost of our DAC technology to the current level of 400 kWh/tCO2 with waste heat and 1400 kWh/tCO2 without. We can see a pathway to sub 400 kWh/tCO2 and this performance will improve in the coming years as we continue innovating. DAC is the only solution that could be deployed with some urgency to remove significant levels of accumulated as well as hard-to-abate CO₂ emissions from the atmosphere, currently standing at 431 ppm. At today's increasing rate of accumulation of greater than 3 ppm/year, this will raise global temperatures by at least another 1 degree in 30 years, reaching temperatures in excess of 2.5 degrees above the much vaunted 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. What is the solution to this? From our perspective DAC is the primary technology to achieve this. And, in this regard, DAC is most definitely not an excuse for the fossil fuel industry to continue with business-as-usual. DAC is essential to help Industry mitigate hard-to-abate emissions and reduce accumulated CO₂ in the atmosphere. It is a young industry and every year will bring innovation resulting in simpler, cheaper and more effective technologies. Another consideration is that the social cost of not addressing the CO₂ in the atmosphere will be more than the cost of reducing it. Maximilian Kotze of the Potsdam Institute led a study that found climate damage costs by 2050 will be six times larger than the cost of reducing carbon emissions. It is time now to invest in the DAC industry to enable it continue to innovate and deploy large scale solutions to the challenge of Global Warming.

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I am very excited by the new collaboration between Nextera and Karolinska Institutet. Together we will develop a novel therapy within rheumatoid arthritis with the potential to cure patients. Nextera`s novel and validated technology platform has the potential to develop first in class TCR-like antibody assets within multiple autoimmune and cancer indications.

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Today marks a special day for a special team and a special company. Aviv Shapira, Rubi Liani, Matteo Shapira, Mor Swiel, and Tal Horesh are showing that it is very much possible to build a company that has meaningful global impact while also building a strong and successful business. This is also an important milestone for us as a fund. XTEND was one of our earliest investments and played a key role in sharpening our focus on deep tech startups across some of the most critical sectors in the world such as defense. We are grateful for the opportunity to be part of this journey and are looking forward to what comes next. Surround Ventures Jared Kash Haim Zilbershats Peter Kash

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