Meet us at ZKSummit in Athens, Greece next week! It has a lot of high quality speakers on the agenda and weāre looking forward to meeting some of our founders IRL. Hit us up if youāre in town and want to meet!
š¤¼Ā People
Til Jordan - Co-Founder at LZero Analytics
Simulating states is critical for understanding how your systems will work once deployed to the wild. The usual, painful, way is to run a private chain in the cloud and then start fuzzing inputs. This becomes very reliant on the imagination of the devs and testers and makes it cumbersome to do cross-chain testing. Til came out of university with the idea and has been working with clients for some time now.
šĀ Companies
Reflect orbital - Extending PV utilization with mirrors in space or āWe sell sunlight after darkā but it makes them sound like a tanning studio
Status: Seed
Source: CAVI originally, now in seed š
Founders: Tristan Semmelhack and Ben Nowak
Why itās cool:
Solar is awesome (though more deadly than nuclear), but has massive issues with the cyclical nature ofā¦ well the rotation of the earth I guess. When thereās no sun, thereās usually no wind either and where thereās good solar power conditions, more solar power tends to be built, reducing the marginal gains per kWh. How can we extend the day and get more sunshine onto the PV cells? Put giant mirrors from satellites in a huge constellation! Reflect down.
Stealth - Floating, off-shore nuclear plants
Status: stealth
Source: X
Founders: serial entrepreneurs in AI/energy
Why itās cool:
Everyone just wants free power, no one wants a nuclear power plant in their backyard (sign me up though). Hence, letās put them on boats! Weāre already doing it with submarines and icebreakers. Cooling is for free through the surrounding water, itās impact and shock resistant, and using shipyard technology production cost can be reduced significantly. My biggest concern: Politicians, greenpeace and regulators.
Polpis Systems - Geothermal with superfluid
Status: Research
Source: X
Founders: Aaron Mandell
Why itās cool:
Polpis Systems is a company that has published an open proposal for a geothermal power generation system using supercritical CO2 (sCO2) as the working fluid. A big problem with geothermal is the cost of exploration, drilling and construction. Using supercritical CO2 to expand a deep fracture from the wellbore to the production zone.
š”Ā Ideas & Science
Taiwan Quake Raises Concerns Over Chip Supply Chain
We all knew it was a possibility, and Taiwan is notoriously well-prepared for this type of disaster, but thereās only so much one can do against everything being shook like youāre living in a snowglobe and a giant baby picked it up and then dropped it.
Questions investors should ask an AI accelerator company
Weāre fans of Aron and SEMRON - who are themselves building an AI accelerator - and here Aron outlines what every investor should be asking but most arenāt in the investment process. Specifically for AI accelerator companies.
Sammi Wei on elevating writers world-wide
t2.world was founded with the realization that writers are largely ignored and unsupported in favor for more light-weight content to consume (looking at you tiktok). This idea attracted Sammi and brought her onto the path from Oxford to entrepreneurship. She talks about the ups and downs of being a founder and navigating philosophical goals with very practical problems. Note: Inflection is invested in t2.