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  Speaker 1: Kathleen Hays and Pim Fox on Bloomberg. Radio accelerators accelerators
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  Speaker 1: for the aerospace and defense industry. What are they? How
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  Speaker 1: do they work? Well, that's why we have Van s. Pabodi.
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  Speaker 1: He is a partner and a co founder of Starburst Accelerator.
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  Speaker 1: They are based in Los Angeles. They can be followed
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter at star Burst I double n O V
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  Speaker 1: as an innovation. Well, Van joins us now here in
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  Speaker 1: the studio. All right, so innovate, help us understand this
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  Speaker 1: world of accelerators and defense and aerospace companies. What's this
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  Speaker 1: all about, Van? I guess the first thing you'd have
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  Speaker 1: to think about is the generational gap this world of
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  Speaker 1: Silicon Valley startups, even those startups here in the New
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  Speaker 1: York area that are trying to find a way to
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  Speaker 1: access these big aerospace brands. Who to go out? Who
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  Speaker 1: do I talk to at Boeing at Airbus to help
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  Speaker 1: me get that product into the marketplace. Well, when you
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  Speaker 1: talk about the marketplace, is it to sell ideas and
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  Speaker 1: products to the actual aerospace companies or to go directly
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  Speaker 1: to the US government, or maybe a mixture of both.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mix. It's never that straightforward. Most people have
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  Speaker 1: difficulty navigating these big rules and how to become a supplier.
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  Speaker 1: Some tend to represent the future of the industry around
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  Speaker 1: drone technology, um transporter systems. You know, even technologies as
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  Speaker 1: interesting as hyperloop might not be aerospace related, but it
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  Speaker 1: requires the same sort of engineering. And the background of
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  Speaker 1: Starburst has international routes. That's correct. We started in Paris
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  Speaker 1: about three years ago and the model UM was easier
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  Speaker 1: to be organized because the supply chain in Europe is
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  Speaker 1: much more hierarchical. So it was pretty exciting to get
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  Speaker 1: that off the ground and have some good success case
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  Speaker 1: studies there and then bring it over here less than
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  Speaker 1: a year ago, and we had our first event last
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  Speaker 1: October and it's been ramping up pretty quickly since. Give
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  Speaker 1: us an idea of some of the companies that you've
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  Speaker 1: been working with and some of the services you've been providing.
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  Speaker 1: The word aerospace means a lot of different things to
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  Speaker 1: allot of different people, but UM space and drones tend
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  Speaker 1: to be the low hanging fruit, those that really start
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  Speaker 1: to resonate with people. But there's a lot of infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: in between those two world that has just as much
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to grow in the industry. So we're learning about
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  Speaker 1: new materials and nanotechnology. We're learning about air traffic systems
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  Speaker 1: for drones, we're learning about electric propulsion systems for small satellites.
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  Speaker 1: The size of our fists what would be an example
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  Speaker 1: of an actual company. So some of the companies that
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  Speaker 1: have presented our panels include a millimeter wave radio frequency
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  Speaker 1: UM technology that's spun out of Ireland, out of a
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  Speaker 1: lab there and they're getting a lot of love from
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  Speaker 1: the corporate partners that support our program. Um. They're called
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  Speaker 1: a Rolis. Another one I can think of is called Axion.
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  Speaker 1: It's developed a nanotechnology for electric propulsion systems really to
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  Speaker 1: make the best use of energy while traveling in space. Um,
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  Speaker 1: something around the passenger experience can be around in flight
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  Speaker 1: entertainment systems. We're working with companies that are developing lightweight
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  Speaker 1: seed technology based out of Singapore. We've also learned about
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  Speaker 1: a company that identifies alerts if a drone is flying
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  Speaker 1: near an airport to avoid any sort of collision. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what's that company? Because that company is called Airmap air Map,
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  Speaker 1: and that is something I would imagine that local as
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  Speaker 1: well as federal officials would be interested in. Exactly. They've
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  Speaker 1: done very well too, uh, create the attention at a
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  Speaker 1: federal level and work very closely with the policy holders
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  Speaker 1: in the f a A and the White House. Having
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  Speaker 1: said that they in order for this to really get
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  Speaker 1: the traction, they've got to work with the drone operators
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  Speaker 1: and as well as the local airports. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty major undertaking to get that sort of trial and
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  Speaker 1: pilot programs in place with specific air fields. What kind
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  Speaker 1: of money does an accelerator like Starburst offer potential companies.
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  Speaker 1: So most startup startups at a seed stage that have
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  Speaker 1: some strong I P and they really have a pattern
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  Speaker 1: or two pending really ready to kind of hit the
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  Speaker 1: ground running. They're still really small. They're looking for anywhere
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  Speaker 1: from half a million k too as big as ten million.
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  Speaker 1: But it's up to us to kind of walk them
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  Speaker 1: through the process and saying some of the whether or
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  Speaker 1: not some of their what they're asking for from these investors,
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  Speaker 1: including us, is unrealistic or not, and whether or not
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  Speaker 1: we can help them reduce that scope through partnering with
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  Speaker 1: some of the corporates, which is a critical component of
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  Speaker 1: what we do. The company safety Line is one of
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  Speaker 1: the companies you've been involved with, and I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: you could just describe what they do and how they
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  Speaker 1: connect with what you're trying to achieve. Safety Line has
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  Speaker 1: developed an algorithm that analyzes the black box data that
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  Speaker 1: most people tend to only identify after an incident has
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  Speaker 1: been made. So what they've done, very carefully and very
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  Speaker 1: creatively is use some deep learning algorithm to understand the
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  Speaker 1: behavior of an aircraft during the climb phase as a
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  Speaker 1: and in order to then provide guidance to a pilot
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  Speaker 1: to say, as you're climbing, if you change the speed
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  Speaker 1: during your client phase, you can save up to temper
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  Speaker 1: cent a fuel. So what they're doing is they're offering
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  Speaker 1: airlines this software suite to say, if you run this
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  Speaker 1: through your flight management system, we can help you achieve
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  Speaker 1: tem percent fuel reduction in your overall fleet. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're able to do it, offer them a creative business
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  Speaker 1: model to say, we'll take ten percent of the ten percent. Alright, good,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for spending time with us. Evan S.
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  Speaker 1: Pabodi he is the partner and the co founder of
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  Speaker 1: Starburst Accelerator. They're based in Los Angeles and they can
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  Speaker 1: be followed on Twitter at Starburst. I double n O
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  Speaker 1: v as in innovation companies creating new products and services
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