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The TechSurge: Deep Tech VC Podcast explores the frontiers of emerging tech, geopolitics, and business, with conversations tailored for entrepreneurs, technologists, and investment professionals. Presented and hosted by the Celesta Capital team. Send feedback and show ideas to [email protected].
Each discussion delves into the intersection of technology advancement, market dynamics, and the founder journey, offering insights into the vast opportunities and complex challenges ahead. Episode topics include AI, data center transformation, blockchain, cyber security, healthcare innovation, VC investment trends, tips for first-time founders, and more.
Tune in to hear directly from Silicon Valley leaders, daring new founders, and visionary thinkers. Past guests include Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, VC investor Vinod Khosla, and executive leaders from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and other leading tech companies.
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- FedEx CEO on Physical AI, the Big Bet on Data, and the Two Trillion-Dollar Supply Chain Problem · 41 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 19Before 2020, few people thought about supply chains. The pandemic put them on every boardroom agenda, and trade and geopolitics now make them critical issues for every global…
- Are LLMs a Dead End? The Case for AI That Learns From Experience · 58 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 18In this episode, Dr. Patrick Pilarski, co-author of the Alberta Plan alongside Richard Sutton and Michael Bowling, makes the case for a radically different kind of AI: one that…
- Gaming Chip Pioneer Raja Koduri on China's AI Cost Advantage and Moving Beyond the GPU · 1 h 0 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 17In this episode, host David Goldman speaks with legendary graphics chip architect Raja Koduri, who explains why every gigawatt of AI infrastructure now costs $50 to $60 billion…
- The Race to Build the Next Trillion-Dollar AI Chip Company · 1 h 12 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 16Almost 2% of U.S. GDP will be spent on AI infrastructure this year, nearly double 2025's figure. But beneath those headline numbers, the composition of that spending has quietly…
- The Nobel Winner Behind Google's Quantum AI Lab: Why I'm Building the NVIDIA of Quantum · 1 h 9 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 15In this episode, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. John Martinis reveals how his breakthrough in superconducting qubits made quantum physics real at macroscopic scale and what it…
- Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan on 40 Years of Contrarian Bets in Semiconductors · 36 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 14Silicon Valley was built on semiconductors, but for nearly two decades, venture capital shifted its attention towards software. Today, AI is changing that as the demand for…
- The Moving Bottleneck: Networking, Power, Memory, and the Race to Win AI · 1 h 11 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 13Artificial intelligence is often discussed through models and GPUs. This episode looks beneath that surface, at the power delivery and networking required to make AI work at…
- Physical AI, Quantum, and Bio-Innovation: Inside Canada’s Research Frontier · 1 h 9 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 12Canada produces world-leading science, engineering, and AI research. So why does so much of that research still commercialize outside of Canada? In this episode of TechSurge…
- Google's Chief Technologist on Intelligent Search in the Age of AI · 1 h 18 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 10TechSurge is sponsored by Notion. From product roadmaps to investor updates, Notion is where modern teams plan, write, and ship together. Get started at…
- Battle for the AI Data Center: Deep Dive on the Semiconductor Supercycle · 53 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 9Semiconductors have moved from the background of the technology stack to the center of the AI economy. What used to be a specialized industry discussed mostly by engineers and…
- In-Orbit Manufacturing, AI Data Centers, and the New Space Economy with MIT’s Ariel Ekblaw · 1 h 28 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 8For most of human history, space has been a place we visited. The next chapter may be about building there. For decades, space was the domain of governments, astronauts, and…
- The U.S. – China Deep Tech Arms Race · 48 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 7For years, the United States told itself a reassuring story: China could manufacture and copy, but it couldn't innovate. That story is no longer credible. From DeepSeek's…
- Rare Earth Rush: Strategic Minerals and Tech's New Resource Wars · 57 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 6For thirty years, the United States largely ignored critical minerals. We mined less, processed less, and stockpiled less — while China quietly built the most dominant mineral…
- The US Crypto Awakening · 57 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 5For years, crypto policy in the United States was defined less by clear rules than by the threat of enforcement. Startups and institutions building in the space operated in a…
- Pixels to Intelligence: The Next Era of Imaging · 51 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 4Digital imaging is so ubiquitous today that it’s easy to forget how improbable it once was. In this episode of TechSurge, guest host Nic Brathwaite sits down with Dr. Eric…
- Sovereign AI Stacks: The New Strategic National Resource · 1 h 0 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 3As artificial intelligence becomes a strategic capability for nations as well as companies, questions of governance, safety, and geopolitical competition are moving to the…
- Governing AI Before It Outpaces Us: Safety for Critical Infrastructure · 58 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 2As generative AI systems move from novelty to infrastructure, questions of safety, trust, and governance are becoming urgent. In this episode of TechSurge, host Sriram…
- India: The Next Tech Global Superpower? · 1 h 20 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 1As global supply chains fracture, AI reshapes productivity, and technology becomes a core instrument of national power, India is making an ambitious push to redefine its role in…
- TechSurge: Season 2 Trailer · 2 min · Säsong 2TechSurge returns for an all-new season exploring the forces reshaping the future of deep tech, where breakthrough innovation meets real-world market dynamics. In season 2, we…
- Season 1 Finale: Risks, Rewards, and Realities of Open vs. Closed AI · 26 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 25In TechSurge’s Season 1 Finale episode, we explore an important debate: should AI development be open source or closed? AI technology leader and UN Senior Fellow Senthil Kumar…
