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.
Altered Carbon won Innovation of the Year and the Reducing Food Loss category in the 2024 Startup Innovation Awards at the World Food Forum of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
Severiyos is Aramean, an ancient Christian minority and ethnic inhabitants of Mesopotamia, whose history is scarred by persecution, expulsion, and genocide.
QurieGen is the Winner of the XTC Global Deep Tech Competition held at TNW 2024 in Amsterdam.
Bug Mars is the Co-Winner at the AI Nations and Sustainable Futures program of NVIDIA Inception presented with Extreme Tech Challenge.
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.
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