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Simon Thomas
Founder and CEO of Paragraf, a hard‑tech company commercializing graphene electronics; led the company from lab breakthroughs to a graphene electronics foundry and substantial venture funding.
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Feb 3, 2026
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E689 | Simon Thomas, Founder of Paragraf: Graphene Chips, AI Energy, and the Hard-Tech Road from Lab to Fab
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Simon Thomas, founder and CEO of Paragraf, who turned graphene lab breakthroughs into a wafer-scale electronics foundry. He talks about building the first graphene electronics foundry, how graphene could cut device energy use, the challenges of scaling single-atom materials into manufacturing, the dual foundry-plus-product strategy, financing heavy capex in deep tech, and why AI helps discovery but not the grind of fabrication.
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