Building fusion to fight cancer ⚛️ | Tom Wallace-Smith
Tom Wallace-Smith never planned on becoming a deep tech founder. He started out in nuclear engineering, working on the technology that powers Britain’s submarines, then took a left turn into startups via a Zoom call and a wild idea.
Today, as co-founder and CTO of Astral Systems, Tom is leading a team building compact fusion reactors: not to power the grid, but to tackle one of the most stubborn bottlenecks in cancer care: medical isotope shortages.
Tom built Astral with a global team he didn’t meet in person for months, set out to generate revenue before chasing big VC rounds, and spent most…
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