COMPANY & TEAM
Built to solve a hard problem
Making invisible chemical information measurable, reliable, and useful at scale.
OUR MISSION
To give machines a new sense — enabling safer, healthier, and more intelligent environments.
Founded in 2018 at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Altered Carbon was created to tackle a problem that sits at the edge of materials science, electronics, and computation: how to capture complex chemical information from the real world and translate it into data that machines can trust and act upon.
The company is built around deep technical capability. Our team brings together expertise spanning graphene nanomaterials, electrochemical sensing, semiconductor integration, signal processing, and applied artificial intelligence. Over several years of sustained research and engineering, we have addressed challenges that extend well beyond detection itself, including selectivity, stability, manufacturability, and system-level integration.
What we have built is not a single product or demonstration, but a robust sensing platform that can be embedded into real-world environments and existing digital infrastructure. The outcome is foundational rather than experimental: a new layer of machine perception that allows technology to understand the chemical dimension of the physical world, supporting safer buildings, healthier environments, and more intelligent, data-driven systems.
Founded
2018
Patents Filed
10+
Partners
15+
LEADERSHIP
Leadership Team
George Hawkins
CEO
Sam Onwugbenu
CPO & Founder
Frazer Barnes
CTO & Founder
Suresh Pushpananthan
Chairman