What does it really take to turn breakthrough research into a deep-tech company?

Join Illume Ventures for a conversation with Dr Richard Parsons, Founder & CEO of Kite Magnetics, a Monash University spinout. Richard’s journey offers a rare inside look at what happens when cutting-edge research leaves the laboratory and becomes a venture.

We’ll explore:

• How a research breakthrough becomes a commercial opportunity
• The transition from researcher and scientist to founder
• What changes when you move from research to building a company
• Navigating customers, commercialisation, IP, funding and scale
• The challenges and rewards of building a deep-tech venture from Australia
• Lessons for researchers considering whether their own research could become a startup

Whether you’re a researcher, PhD student, engineer, aspiring founder, entrepreneur or simply curious about how deep-tech companies are created, this is an opportunity to hear directly from someone who has lived the journey.

Featuring Dr Richard Parsons, Founder & CEO, Kite Magnetics

Presented as part of Frontier Series by Illume Ventures  conversations with the people turning frontier research and technologies into ventures.