Metahelios
Scotland
Start Up Loans
Physicists Charles Altuzarra and Yash D Shah, founders of Metahelios each received a £25,000 Start Up Loan in July 2022 to kickstart their business
The entrepreneurs have created a first-of-its-kind, long-distance camera that can manipulate light to distinguish between a range of materials from a still image. They are aiming to deploy the technology into space on a rocket from one of the UK’s spaceport sites, capturing data via a satellite that can be used to monitor climate change and orbiting space debris.
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