Daniel Morales Valdivia and Chris Rosser, Unlimitech
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This week on CUTalks we are talking to Daniel Morales Valdivia and Chris Rosser. Daniel is the CEO and Chris is the CTO, and together they co-founded Unlimitech, a fitness technology startup developing the Smartmask, which is a wearable designed to measure aerobic and metabolic efficiency metrics by tracking breath flow and composition. Daniel has a background in business engineering as well as an MBA from Cambridge, and Chris is an engineer by training, with subsequent engineering consultancy roles. They talked about some of the challenges that they have been facing in building Unlimitech, including team restructuring, finding mentors, product development and manufacturing. Listen to some of the hard truths that they think founders should embrace and overcome. If you are interested in learning more about opportunities in developing physiological technology, stay tuned until the end of the podcast!
This episode was sponsored by DesignSpark: design tools and resources for engineers to help make their ideas happen. The podcast was produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV.
Jump to the following topics:
The Founder’s Background - 00:30
What is Unlimitech - 04:50
Why is there a need for the SmartMask - 08:06
Being a software-hardware startup - 12:30
How did Daniel and Christ start the company - 14:00
The not-so-sweet side of starting a startup - 20:50
Product development experience - 28:50
Future opportunity in physiology - 32:50