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Rob Maunder

Oct 8, 2026

4:31
So what was that founding experience like? How did you really get started on this?
4:36
Yeah, so it was with the patent.
4:39
I always say that embarking on an enterprise journey, at the time, for me, it felt like I needed to figure out a way to climb over a big brick wall.
4:47
And I was worried that I would have to do lots of training to become a business expert and all of this kind of thing.
4:54
But what I came to realize is that with the support that's available from University of Southampton and many universities around the UK, there is a journey you can go on that takes you step by step.
5:06
And so for me, the first step was the patent.
5:08
The patent introduced me to colleagues at the university who were focused on enterprise, focused on impact, and I had to pitch to them the case for funding the writing of a patent.

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28:16
How have you gone from that original idea to now, you know, space? Because that doesn't sound like where your initial application was.

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