Mehrdad Mahoutian, PhD - PEng, is an award-winning scholar, entrepreneur, and co-founder of CarbiCrete. He is also the co-inventor of CarbiCrete’s technology. Mehrdad serves as CarbiCrete’s CTO and is an expert in the carbon capture and utilization, mineralization, sustainable construction materials and concrete technology.
I loved this conversation because we broke down the entire process of inventing a game-changing technology as part of PhD research, determining with your advisor if something's novel, introducing to the tech transfer office and working with them on patenting, getting introduced to a successful entrepreneur who becomes your co-founder, leveraging non-dilutive funding and much more. Mehrdad highlights how luck met preparation in a crazy story that was a turning point for his invention - no spoilers! The audio is a bit rough as he's at the R&D lab for their concrete production company but the content is well worth it. Enjoy!
In this video:
0:00 Intro to CarbiCrete technologies
6:15 Differences between carbon development companies
13:50 Foundation of CarbiCrete technologies: idea development
18:00 Company formation of CarbiCrete: from rock bottom to results
29:46 Novel ideas and patenting applications
35:00 Tech Transfer Office experience: cofounder
40:23 McGill’s Dawson Competition: experience, prize money, support
44:38 Canadian funds and programs
47:41 Determining a technology’s market readiness
49:50 Initial career dreams to be a professor
54:40 Advice for early self and young entrepreneurs
More about Mehrdad
Dr. Mahoutian has published more than 50 peer reviewed journal paper and conference papers. His research and studies have been cited by more than 600 papers and reports. Mehrdad has seven granted and pending patents and was the team leader for CarbiCrete as one of the finalists of the international $20M Carbon Xprize competition. He won the Canada's 2019 Clean50 Award in the research and development category.
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