How does a former NASA scientist team up with a former Wall Street trader to build a deep tech company that manipulates atoms without a multi-million-dollar clean room? For NanoSkunkWorkX (nSWX), it’s about breaking the rules of nanotechnology.

Co-founders Dr. Amani Salim and Iqbal Shamsul join us to share their incredible journey. They discuss their core technology that "stitches together" graphene to solve fundamental bottlenecks in compute, energy, and healthcare, and their ambitious strategy to achieve "technological sovereignty" for Malaysia through strategic global partnerships.

We discuss:

• The journey from a NASA-funded research project to a deep tech startup.

• The NASA-meets-Wall Street origin story.

• The "Skunk Works" philosophy and their mission to build a world-class Malaysian innovator.

• Their unique low-cost platform for manipulating graphene.

• Their commercialization strategy, including a contract with a foreign military.

• Their ambitious vision for "technological sovereignty."

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