This week, we invite you to discover three personalities who work in very different fields: software, space, and computing power. By tackling the architecture of the value chains called to structure tomorrow’s economy, Mariam Hakobyan, Sebastian Klaus, and Ruben Bryon work at a more fundamental level than that of the product.
First portrait: Mariam Hakobyan who redistributes the power to produce software
With SOFTR, Mariam Hakobyan is not looking to create another tool, but intends to redefine who, in the company, has the power to build software. Its starting point is operational, noting that a considerable part of business software is based on repetitive, expensive and poorly differentiated components, it created SOFTR, a no code platform which allows everyone to create the business application they need.
By allowing non-technical profiles to build applications, it modifies the distribution of power in the company, with software production which no longer depends exclusively on technical teams. A change which is not without impact on the capacity to innovate of companies, which can with Softr carry out tests, without having to mobilize their IT departments.
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Sebastian Klaus: raising orbit to the rank of logistics layer
At the head of Atmos Space Cargo, Sebastian Klaus, for his part, is not content with aiming for access to space, and intends to develop it into a real infrastructure.
His conviction is based on the observation that the value does not lie only in putting satellites or payloads into orbit, but in their repatriation to Earth. Behind this technical capacity lies an economy in its own right: manufacturing in microgravity, scientific experimentation, dual-use civil and military applications. His startup announced a new funding round a few days ago of more than 25.7 million euros in Series A from Balnord and Expansion (co-leads), with the participation of Keen Defense and Security, as well as European investors
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Ruben Bryon: governing the scarcity of computing
With Verda, Ruben Bryon takes a stand against the behemoths that are Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. It does not claim to offer a general alternative, but targets the growing gap between conventional cloud architectures and the computational requirements of artificial intelligence. His reading of the problem is that computing is now establishing itself as a constrained resource, dependent on energy availability, cooling capacities and geopolitical balances.
By backing its offer with Nordic data centers powered by carbon-free energy sources, Bryon is not only optimizing existing infrastructure, but is redesigning the conditions of access, at a time when computing power constitutes a major determinant of competitiveness.
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