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Hilmi Turan Builds the Signal Path First Responders Cannot See
From Istanbul Technical University to more than 500 emergency-radio systems, Turan has built a career around the moment a concrete wall turns a clear signal into silence.
Noah Levy Put the RF Test Bench on Notice
After years building radios and test systems at SpaceX, Noah Levy decided the laboratory gear around them deserved a modern interface. Nine Fives is his compact, hardware-first answer.
Iyad Tarazi Is Teaching the Airwaves to Share
He left a vast telecom organization for a startup with two scientists and a difficult idea: let radios share. A decade later, Iyad Tarazi is applying the same instinct to AI, physics and the stubborn economics of wireless networks.
Pratap Ranade
Pratap Ranade is the CEO and co-founder of Arena (Arena Physica), a New York startup building Atlas, an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics that helps semiconductor, aerospace, automotive, medical-device and defense companies design and test physical hardware. A Stanford and Columbia-trained physicist who left a PhD to join McKinsey, he previously co-founded Kimono Labs (acquired by Palantir) and led engineering and machine learning at Enigma. Arena raised a $30M Series B in April 2025 and counts AMD, Bausch & Lomb and Anduril among its partners.