Full Name
Kieran Furlong
Job Title
CEO and Founder
Company
Realta Fusion
Speaker Bio
Kieran is the CEO of Realta Fusion, an early-stage company developing fusion energy for applications in industrial process heat and power. He has extensive experience in start-ups and venture capital, particularly in the areas of energy, climatetech, sustainable ag & food and industrial biotech. Kieran spent the first decade of his career in the chemical industry in a range of technical and commercial roles across the globe – in Argentina, Germany, the UK and the USA. Following that, he moved into start-ups and worked on advanced fuels, bioplastics (including the development of the first 100% bio-based Coca-Cola bottle), waste-to-energy technologies, and now fusion energy.
In 2017, he launched the $24M Ireland Agtech Fund in his native country – a partnership between Finistere Ventures and the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. He is a Senior Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kieran served on the board of numerous start-ups and has mentored innovators from academia as they commercialized technology emerging from their research. He has patents in biological crop protection and quantum computing. Kieran has a degree in Chemical Engineering from University College Dublin, Ireland and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University where he was an Arjay
Miller Scholar.
In 2017, he launched the $24M Ireland Agtech Fund in his native country – a partnership between Finistere Ventures and the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. He is a Senior Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kieran served on the board of numerous start-ups and has mentored innovators from academia as they commercialized technology emerging from their research. He has patents in biological crop protection and quantum computing. Kieran has a degree in Chemical Engineering from University College Dublin, Ireland and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University where he was an Arjay
Miller Scholar.
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