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Laser Wire Solutions
Laser Wire Solutions is a Welsh precision-engineering company that builds laser systems and robots to strip, cut and process the tiniest, most delicate wires on Earth - the kind found inside catheters, MRI coils, EV harnesses and spacecraft. Founded in 2011 by Oxford-trained physicist Paul Taylor, the Pontypridd firm turned a niche insight (that lasers strip fine wire more cleanly than blades) into award-winning machines and contract-manufacturing services now used by medical OEMs, aerospace and defense primes, data-center builders and even Tesla.
Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor is a laser physicist turned manufacturer who founded Laser Wire Solutions, a Pontypridd, Wales company that designs and builds machines using light instead of blades to strip insulation from hair-fine wires. After an Oxford physics PhD spent trapping a single ytterbium atom to build a next-generation atomic clock, he carried that obsession with lasers into industry and, in 2011, started a two-man operation in a Merthyr Tydfil garage. It grew into one of the UK's fastest-growing manufacturers, exporting roughly 99% of its output, supplying mission-critical kit to the medical device, aerospace, data centre and electric-vehicle industries, and winning a Queen's Award for International Trade.
Mike Moritz
Sir Michael Moritz KBE is a Welsh-born venture capitalist and author who spent nearly 38 years at Sequoia Capital, becoming one of the most successful investors in technology history. A former Time magazine journalist who wrote the first history of Apple, he backed Google at a $100 million valuation, Yahoo with a 24-hour ultimatum, and PayPal before anyone knew what digital payments meant. Diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer in 2006, he kept investing for another 17 years. In 2025 he published 'Ausländer,' a memoir about his family's escape from Nazi Germany — and announced he was applying for German citizenship.