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The Hardtech Podcast pulls back the curtain on the bold ideas, design challenges, and engineering breakthroughs behind today’s most innovative hardware products — and the people who make them happen. From first sketch to final build, we dive deep into the minds shaping the future of physical tech.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Hardtech Podcast pulls back the curtain on the bold ideas, design challenges, and engineering breakthroughs behind today’s most innovative hardware products, and the people who make them happen. From first sketch to final build, we dive deep into the minds shaping the future of physical tech.
Recent episodes include "Ovul - Finding Product Market Fit in Femtech" (6 October 2026, 43 minutes), "intent - AI Creating New Bottlenecks in IoT Development" (28 September 2026, 55 minutes), and "Epitel - From Research to $26 Million Series B" (22 September 2026, 57 minutes).
The Hardtech Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 51 minutes across 67 episodes.
Booking probability for The Hardtech Podcast is 41%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Hardtech Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Hardtech Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Hardtech Podcast are Semiconductors & Electronic Components and Industrial Machinery. The Hardtech Podcast has a technology audience.
The Hardtech Podcast is a technology show with 67 episodes published.
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The Hardtech Podcast
Serhii Zatsarynin spent years at Siemens Healthineers running in-vitro diagnostics in Ukraine, in a world where every human touching the process counts as a potential error, and then came home to find the most important...
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This one is the peanut butter and jelly of connected hardware, a software consultancy that builds for hardware startups sitting down with a hardware development firm. Peter Tuszynski, CTO at intent, joins DeAndre...
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Epitel just closed a $26 million Series B to expand remote wireless EEG monitoring, and Mark Lehmkuhle, the company's CTO and founder, and J Carroll, its Director of Software Engineering and Architecture, join DeAndre...
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Roxie Alsruhe had never done anything in hardware or manufacturing when she came home from the hospital with her first born and ran straight into a problem that a lot of families quietly deal with, which is knowing when...
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A vision system can see a car enter a work zone in milliseconds. Getting that warning to a worker standing two miles down the highway, wearing a helmet and running a jackhammer, is a completely different problem. Derek...
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Some founders chase a new idea every few years. Dan Evans did the opposite: he got world-class at one genuinely hard technology and rode it across an entire career. In this episode, Dan, the CEO and founder of Babba...
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The walker is one of the most common and least reimagined products in healthcare. Matt Cumella set out to change that. A doctor of physical therapy with a board certification in geriatrics, Matt spent years in...
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This is a special one. Grant Chapman flies solo (a Hardtech Podcast "after dark" on a Friday) with Ben Wrightsman, founding board member of AMVIC, the Advanced Machine and Vehicle Innovation Center. Ben is a Hoosier...
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Some products are altruistic and some are shrewd. The best ones, like Uplift, are both. In this episode, Jeff Runnels, co-founder of Lexia Solutions and inventor of Uplift, joins DeAndre Harakas and Grant Chapman for a...
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Most people optimize their workouts and their meals, then spend a third of their life doing nothing intentional about sleep. Eight Sleep built a business on closing that gap, and in this episode Sam Kang, the company's...
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Mobile phones are supercomputers in our pockets, yet turning them into ergonomic gaming machines or daily-use handhelds requires an extraordinary degree of mechanical precision. ohSnap has built a brand around...
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What if the gait analysis that normally takes a lab full of motion-capture cameras could ride along on every run? That's the bet behind Alenthia Run. Cooper Boydston, the company's CTO, joins DeAndre and Grant to talk...
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This one is a crossover. Grant sat down with the team behind Venture Declassified, a podcast about what it actually takes to invest as an angel, for a freewheeling conversation about how hard tech companies get...
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This one is a deep dive into the unglamorous reality of building a prescription medical device. Kelly Roman, co-founder and CEO of Fisher Wallace, flew in from New York to sit down with Grant Chapman and Drew Westrick...
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Season 3 is back, and this one's a treat. Justin Sirotin, founder and CEO of OCTO, sat down with DeAndre and Grant, and the three of them were so deep in agency talk before we hit record that we basically lost the first...
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What does it really take to build a hard tech company from the ground up? In this episode, DeAndre Harakas welcomes Davide Dantonio, Director at gBETA Accelerators (part of Generator), to talk about the mechanics of...
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In this episode of The Hardtech Podcast, hosts DeAndre Harakas and Grant Chapman sit down with Dr. David Albert; serial founder, inventor with 100+ patents, former chief scientist of GE Healthcare Cardiology, and the...
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In this episode, Norbert dives into the complex and critical world of medical device development. He shares his expert insights on the ongoing push for hardware miniaturization, the importance of intuitive industrial...
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What does it take to turn a kitchen appliance into a tool for global climate action? In this deep dive on the Hardtech Podcast, DeAndre Harakas and Grant Chapman sit down with Bert Muthalaly to discuss the mission...
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In this episode of the Hardtech Podcast, host DeAndre Harakas and co-host Grant Chapman sit down with Martin Wyeth, the visionary founder of powerTee. With over 20 billion balls hit on their systems to date, powerTee...
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