E11 | The technology Capable of Detecting Scent | Ali Rohafza - Founder, Altered Carbon

The Founder of Altered Carbon, Ali Rohafza, joins us for the season finale of The 5V Podcast to discuss their groundbreaking graphene sensor technology, which can recognise millions of scent combinations and has applications in a variety of fields, including waste management, food safety, energy, and many others.

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00:37 How Altered Carbon was founded 
01:08 Journey as a startup - how did you come up with the name? 
02:59 Leading company with commercially viable graphene - what were the limitations before? 
05:13 Key part of the technology involved in the digitalisation of scent 
06:37 Use cases of the technology
08:58 What's been the biggest challenge? 
11:05 What's the next step for you as a startup? 
13:29 One sector that interests you the most? 
16:07 Quick fire questions 

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About Ali and Altered Carbon 

Ali is the Founder and CEO of Altered Carbon Ltd. Altered Carbon is giving computers the ability to smell. By using a graphene chip that mimics a dog's nose, and machine learning to give the hardware intelligence to know what it's sensing, we turn current sensing complexities into simple actionable data. 

Ali is enthusiastic about the potential to advance the medical industry, save the planet's resources, improve global productivity and increase safety. We are currently raising investment for AC.

Connect with Ali on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-rohafza-altered-carbon-ltd/

Find out more about Altered Carbon:  https://altered-carbon.com/ 

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