Deeper Dives with our Recent Winners
Introducing new Audio Interviews going beyond the blogs in greater depth
Extreme Tech Challenge Head of Ecosystem, John Martin, interviews some of our winning startup founders to learn about their extreme innovations and their entrepreneurial journeys.
Severiyos Gabriel
Founder and CEO of AIDONIC of Switzerland
Six Questions for Severiyos Gabriel – Founder and CEO of AIDONIC of Switzerland Severiyos is Aramean, an ancient Christian minority and ethnic inhabitants of Mesopotamia, whose history is scarred by persecution, expulsion, and genocide. His parents fled southeast Turkey in the 1970s, seeking refuge in Switzerland, where Severiyos was born. He was the usual tech geek teen growing up building web-based platforms. He eventually moved into a natural Swiss occupation – finance, logistics and trading – becoming the youngest commodities trader in Zug, CH. But as the crisis in Syria deepened, he left his lucrative career to help his fellow […]
Kinga Matuła
Co-Founder and CEO, QurieGen
QurieGen is the Winner of the XTC Global Deep Tech Competition held at TNW 2024 in Amsterdam.
Natalie Duncan
Co-Founder and CEO, Bug Mars
Bug Mars is the Co-Winner at the AI Nations and Sustainable Futures program of NVIDIA Inception presented with Extreme Tech Challenge.
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Meet Our Host,
John Martin
Head of Ecosystem
John Martin has worked for decades at the intersection of corporate, entrepreneurial and academic innovation – from minicomputers to digital cellular to nanotech, cleantech, chips, AI and medtech, most recently for the team involved with the founding of today’s XTC where he is now posted full-time. John has Business Degrees from MIT and Babson and a multi-cultural humanities degree from the University of Washington in Seattle, where he currently lives.