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An interview with Danyal Akarca, Founder at Callosum & Suraj Bramhavar, Programme Director at Aria

2026-02-26 · 10 company · 6 thematic

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Founder of Callosum, a stealth startup building software infrastructure to orchestrate heterogeneous AI compute across specialized chips. PhD from Cambridge, previously ARIA seed creator. Raised $10M from Plural to enable multi-agent systems on mixed hardware.

seb

Seb hosts the Scaling Europe podcast presented by Deal, interviewing European tech builders and investors.

suraj bramhavar

Programme Director at ARIA (UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency), running the Scaling Compute programme and launching the Scaling Inference Lab to build neutral testbeds for heterogeneous AI hardware and software co-design.

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“So this inevitable trend, but it's important, I think, to maybe take a step back and realize why this is not only kind of going to happen on the supply side, on the kind of computing side, but why this is kind of what are the bottlenecks o…”

—danyal akarca

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