In this episode, we talk to Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath.
We discuss NATO’s current rearming efforts, how Rozvelt came to be and the problems it solves for defence and law enforcement, the tech behind products such as VEKTR, its ballistic and cold-inhalation applications, and what Nicholas sees as the biggest opportunities and challenges when bringing new technology into defence.
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00:00:01 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Hi, welcome to the Future Frontiers podcast from Mililux.io.
00:00:05 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
In this episode, we talk with Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rosvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath.
00:00:18 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
We discuss NATO's current rearming efforts, how Rosvelt came to be, the problems it solves for defence and law enforcement, the tech behind the products such as Vector, its ballistic and cold inhalation applications,
00:00:29 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
and what Nicolas sees as the biggest opportunities and challenges when bringing new technology into defence.
00:00:41 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Hey Nicolas, thank you so much for joining us on the Mililux Future Frontiers podcast.
00:00:46 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
I realise it's very early where you are at the moment.
00:00:48 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
You're just outside of Montreal and it's 8am.
00:00:50 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
So to kick us off, please could you give us a really concise one minute introduction to yourself?
00:00:56 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Hi Chris, thank you so much for the invitation.
00:00:59 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So I'm Nicola Monette, co-founder and CEO of Roosevelt.
00:01:04 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
We're A Canadian deep tech company based in Montreal and we build a modular respiratory platform for people who work in hostile environment, military, law enforcement, first responders.
00:01:19 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
My background is in defense.
00:01:22 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
I come from pharmaceutical industry.
00:01:25 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And I got pulled into this world by a very specific problem I couldn't stop thinking about.
00:01:32 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And 2 years later, we have a platform, a team, advisor who spend their careers in special ops and partners on 3 continents.
00:01:41 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So we're building something, lots of traction, and this is where I come from.
00:01:45 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Brilliant stuff.
00:01:46 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Well, I'm looking forward to jumping more into it in the next kind of 40 minutes or so.
00:01:52 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
But just to kick us off, please, can you give us your take on NATO's rearming efforts at the moment?
00:01:57 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
How are you seeing it from your angle?
00:02:00 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Yes, that's a very good and political question.
00:02:05 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And I think the rearming is real and I also think it's lopsided.
00:02:12 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Almost all of the money is going into platform and munition, vehicle, drones, air defense, ammunition line, and that's totally necessary.
00:02:24 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
But the individual layer, what the operator actually wears and breathe through has barely moved in four years.
00:02:34 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And the other thing that changed is the threat environment.
00:02:40 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Modern operation means drones overhead, thermal sensors, urban dust, burn pit, industrial smoke, and those aren't classic CBRN scenarios.
00:02:51 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So they fall between the cracks from the full CBRN mask is too much and nothing is too little.
00:03:00 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And there's also a third piece.
00:03:03 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
The audience feels in Europe right now is about sovereignty.
00:03:09 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Countries are realizing that spending is not the same thing as capability.
00:03:16 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Yeah.
00:03:17 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
If your supply chain isn't domestic, you didn't buy readiness.
00:03:23 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
You bought a delivery date.
00:03:27 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And that's why Canada, Poland, Japan, the Baltic are all suddenly asking the same question about who can actually produce and who are reliable, who I want to work with.
00:03:40 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And this is where
00:03:43 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
all the magic and all the power about NATO is we build this alliance for years and decades and now it's the time to work together and this is what we're seeing right now.
00:03:56 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It's all company all around the world in NATO working together, bringing new technology together and not trying to beat the other guy in the same country as you.
00:04:07 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And that's amazing that what we're seeing there and the mentality is changing.
00:04:13 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Yeah, fascinating.
00:04:14 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Yeah, thanks so much.
00:04:15 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
I'm really keen to hear more about Rossvelt, like what is it and how did it come to be like, particularly like your journey because, and this is something I make a point of in most of our podcasts, is it's really good to have people out from outside of defence who are coming in and solving problems within defence because I think it takes a real, like a fresh set of eyes, a fresh way of thinking actually to solve some of the most complex problems because us,
00:04:40 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
as veterans, sometimes we're a bit kind of stove-piped in the way we approach problems, in the conventional way.
00:04:46 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
And I prefer people who come in from an unconventional place and say, well, actually, you could bring this knowledge from this sector and put it into defence.
00:04:53 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
So yeah, please.
00:04:55 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Yeah, so we have a, we did it, as I mentioned before, I'm not from the defence sector.
00:05:02 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
I'm a scientist and I'm also a hunter.
00:05:06 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And the biggest challenge for a hunter to get closer to wildlife is scent control because the animal will be able to smell you way before to see or hear you because that's their biggest mechanism of defense.
00:05:22 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So the Roosevelt Vector was first built for this specific use to hide or breath.
00:05:28 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So we were the first in a world building
00:05:31 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
a mask with magnetic headset only filtering exhale without filtering inhale to avoid all the restriction with a rechargeable cartridge.
00:05:40 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
But we had so much challenge that we were able to raise being able to take off that mask
00:05:49 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
with one hand or partially take it off magnetically and being able to shoot with the mask.
00:05:55 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And these were all criterias that basically when we launched this product at the SHOT Show in Vegas, we've been saying, wow, can I use this for target shooting?
00:06:05 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Again and again.
00:06:06 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And we're asking why.
00:06:09 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And this is where we learned that when you're shooting, there is a
00:06:14 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And a very, very big concern about lead mitigation because when you're shooting, you're breathing lead and there's no real solution that you can shoot with it.
00:06:24 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So that this is where we started reversing these vaults so that we can now filter the inhale, not the exhale with the same product and building a new filter.
00:06:36 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And then we have defense, military defense from other countries all around the world come to us and say,
00:06:44 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
We need your product.
00:06:45 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Can you build new filters?
00:06:47 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So this, we've been tracked down to use our technology into the defense sector after our first commercial event and launch.
00:06:55 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So that's exciting because there were problems that were not solved and people will say, hey, your product can't solve what we have as issue on the field.
00:07:08 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Yeah, fascinating.
00:07:10 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
So in our previous conversations, as I understand it, so it's almost like a two-way, it solves problems from two directions, isn't it?
00:07:19 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
In that you're breathing, and you mentioned earlier the CBRN, things that fall between the CBRN gaps, and I was a CBRN instructor, so I fully understand the toxic industrial chemical, the lead inhalation that you mentioned earlier.
00:07:33 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
But then also an interesting point you just highlighted then as well,
00:07:37 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
that previous people have backed up as well is the heat from your breath being used by drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras to identify positions.
00:07:47 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
So can you just expand a bit more on that?
00:07:50 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Is that the right understanding?
00:07:51 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
It's A two-way problem solver.
00:07:53 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Sure.
00:07:54 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So let's do a one-on-one crash course and let's take them one by one.
00:08:01 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So first understanding
00:08:04 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
what there is on the field right now.
00:08:06 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So there is big CBRN protection mask and we're not there to replace this product.
00:08:12 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So this is where the threat is very high.
00:08:14 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
You cannot breathe.
00:08:15 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
These masks are there.
00:08:16 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
They're full big protection.
00:08:19 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
But as soon as you're in the desert following another truck and there's sand, you won't put your big
00:08:27 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It is way too big.
00:08:28 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It's overkill.
00:08:29 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And when you're breaching, you need something that is rapidly deployable.
00:08:33 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
You don't always have your gas mask.
00:08:35 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Or when there's fires all around and you have this smoke for one week, two weeks, you won't wear your big CBRN mask for two weeks, all day long.
00:08:47 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So the Roosevelt Vector is
00:08:51 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
answering the bridge for 90% of the scenarios of the time where it's a light threat.
00:09:01 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So this is the first part.
00:09:02 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And then there's different breathing ways so you can protect yourself.
00:09:07 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
from the exterior.
00:09:08 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So when there's lead, when you're shooting, again, you won't put your gas mask.
00:09:13 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
When you're shooting, again and again, you're breathing all this lead and it's a very, very big health problem right now that we're solving.
00:09:22 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And then you can also avoid contaminating environment.
00:09:25 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So this is the hunting scenario where we're filtering our breath because it's 80% of all of our scent is coming from our breath.
00:09:36 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So it's the same product.
00:09:37 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
We can just switch the valve or block and filtering inhale and excel.
00:09:41 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And we're the first in the world doing this and we're very proud.
00:09:44 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And we're also having a very, very strong IP since the start of the company.
00:09:50 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And then it's all about being able to design a product that can answer all of these scenarios into one single product and not
00:10:04 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
buying like 10 different types of masks.
00:10:06 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And this is what we've done with the modularity.
00:10:09 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So first, the exterior shell, we can change it.
00:10:12 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And this is where we can add more scenario based on first the external shell, we can change the color with the camouflage.
00:10:20 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So depending on the environment, you change the color.
00:10:24 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And then also with the protection, we can make this ballistic proof.
00:10:28 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So the shell, you can change it without buying another mask.
00:10:32 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And we
00:10:33 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
put the shell with ballistic protection.
00:10:36 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And then as you mentioned, there's the Arctic, which is a very big challenge right now.
00:10:41 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
There is first the cold, so it can protect itself from very cold conditions, which is a very good challenge right now.
00:10:49 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And also to hide your heat signature from drones with this specific shell, which is a very, very big concern right now.
00:10:58 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And then there's the cartridge.
00:11:00 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So we're building different types of cartridge based on the real use that you can have with you.
00:11:05 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So let's say that you're just in the desert and there's so much dust and sand that you don't want to breathe.
00:11:12 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
You won't have this very restrictive cartridge to filter smoke, let's say.
00:11:18 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So you can change based on the actual scenario.
00:11:21 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Let's say that it's a medical problem so that you can have
00:11:24 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
a membrane that will filter only based, protect yourself from N95 viruses and pandemic and etc.
00:11:31 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And having something that is adapted to your reality.
00:11:35 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And then there's the nosing for the comfort and performance.
00:11:40 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
If you are buying, let's say, the government want to buy 10,000 units of it,
00:11:47 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
How many small, medium, or large do you have to order?
00:11:51 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And this is a very good question.
00:11:53 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And designed the product and certified all of them.
00:11:55 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So we also build a changeable nosing for your fit to your face.
00:12:00 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So it already comes with three different sizes and we can customs or build more based on the requirements.
00:12:09 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So you don't have this issue again or having
00:12:12 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
none product that are not really used or overstocked, etc.
00:12:17 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So we're building something that is modular and you can adapt and add feature.
00:12:22 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
We're also working into adding a communication system directly on.
00:12:27 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
We're working into adding ballistic eyewear that you can directly clip into the Roosevelt vector.
00:12:35 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And we also have a magnetic attachment that can snap directly to your helmet or with a specific headset.
00:12:42 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And we can also even change this specific attachment to have just a strap or anything.
00:12:49 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So we don't have any limitation and it needs to be attached to any types of reality, any types of threat, any types of user.
00:12:58 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And that's where it becomes really exciting.
00:13:01 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
We're answering really customized on the real needs of the users.
00:13:08 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
And you mentioned, and it's something that will probably come to mind for a lot of the audience here is the use of the N95, which obviously people will remember during the pandemic, where you had to check certain industries, like medicine, for example, had to use N95 or high grade face masks, didn't they?
00:13:30 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
But it did reveal
00:13:33 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
a bigger challenge, I think, for defence in that, like you say, you don't need a full CBRN respirator to work in all circumstances, because if you ever worked with a respirator on before, it puts a lot of stress on the lungs, on the
00:13:52 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
the muscles around the diaphragm and the kind of the inhalation muscles that you become exhausted very, very quickly.
00:13:58 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
And I've done, back in the Marines, I did quite a few kind of like heavy insertion marches using the CBO and respirator because they want to test just how far the kind of the human limits can go with it.
00:14:09 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
And it's, I can tell you firsthand it's not an enjoyable experience, but you know, I think if I had the choice between a respirator and an N95 mask over, you know, I'd be like, definitely pick the
00:14:21 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
the N95 mask because it's the difficulties with breathing in is a lot less.
00:14:26 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
So I think ultimately there's a lot of respiratory issues below the threshold of a respirator that sounds like it can solve, especially with you mentioned the cold inhalation, obviously if you're in the high north.
00:14:43 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
and then also masking out heat signatures.
00:14:47 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Again, if NATO is looking towards the high north now, it makes sense that we're thinking about heat signatures from, drones, especially when you overlay drones with AI that can
00:15:00 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
maybe fly at a very high altitude and just spot loads of little thermal heat signatures and then make a deduction.
00:15:06 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Is this a flock of birds or is it soldiers?
00:15:10 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
And then it's very quickly decided it's soldiers and you've got indirect fire being brought onto your position.
00:15:15 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
But that's a hypothetical situation, so to speak, but I can see where this sort of thinking would be required.
00:15:25 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
What about...
00:15:26 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Sorry, go on, go on.
00:15:27 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And this is very exciting because it's a single product that can solve all of these problems.
00:15:34 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So having an N95 on the field with these straps behind your ears, this little mask, it just doesn't make sense.
00:15:42 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It's not like that.
00:15:43 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So that's exactly what we've built.
00:15:45 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So we build an N95 with something that is rapidly deployable, that is comfortable, that is durable, that it will be
00:15:53 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
really adapt to the feel and this is exactly the gap that we're solving.
00:15:58 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Otherwise people are just wearing nothing and that's alarming.
00:16:02 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
We need to protect the one who protects us because as you mentioned like you are you have difficulty breathing so for sure your performance your attention will be less you're taking more energy about that and so we need so much it to be ready and we want to avoid
00:16:21 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
putting distress into all the individual and the people on the ground.
00:16:26 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
And I wanted to just kind of take the question a bit further and kind of ask about law enforcement as well, because I can imagine there's probably law enforcement applications as well, but rather than me guessing, I'm just going to ask you where those problems sit.
00:16:41 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Yep, so for law enforcement, it is when there's a threat,
00:16:48 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Again, they have nothing right now in their hands because the full CBRN is way too big.
00:16:53 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So we have something that is rapidly deployable that they can have for them, for any types of threat.
00:16:59 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It could be for breaching, it could be for shooting when they're training for lead.
00:17:05 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It could be just for, again, medical purposes.
00:17:08 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
They're on the field.
00:17:08 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
There's so much different types of threat and they need to be protected and the full mask is not adapt.
00:17:17 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
They will not
00:17:18 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
carry this.
00:17:20 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So a lot of different usage, even the Coast Guard, even the Canadian Red Cross are interested right now.
00:17:27 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So all the medical people on the ground, there is so much different types of application and law enforcement is, we have lots of interest right now because again, there's a big need there.
00:17:43 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Yeah, and I'm just thinking too, so obviously if you're if you're if they're using kind of smoke grenades or CS gas for example, is there a way that a filter could be retrofitted into the vector to mean they could obviously they have a very quick solution which they could say, right, CS gas is going in, we're going to be in, you know, seconds behind that, the masks stay up.
00:18:08 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So this is a very good question.
00:18:10 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It's going to be yes and no.
00:18:11 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And again, if you're going to fight specifically into like with their helmet and with their big mask, you're going into these types of situation, for sure, there's the big CBR mask.
00:18:25 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
But we are working into a high performance cartridge right now that will be able to protect, but
00:18:35 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Again, it's going to be just a bit lower because it's going to be more compact.
00:18:39 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So it's this or nothing.
00:18:42 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So if you have to choose between the vector when you're going to fight specifically, for sure, it's going to be, it's not built to beat or compete the full CBR and threat, but it's built, yes, to filter all these threats rapidly for a short time and then
00:19:05 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
being able to be protected over having nothing.
00:19:08 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So that's what we're building right now, but having a compact solution.
00:19:14 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Yeah.
00:19:15 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Can you tell us a bit more about the ballistic, how you're solving the ballistic problem?
00:19:20 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Because I can remember my own experiences in Iraq was you'd be issued these
00:19:26 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
these giant kind of like peacock rings that go around your neck for, attached to the early body armour.
00:19:32 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
And that was to prevent kind of blast fragmentation from coming up and kind of hitting your unprotected kind of like arteries in your neck and your windpipe and stuff.
00:19:40 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Is there, how would the vector kind of protect from ballistic out of interest?
00:19:46 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And this is a very good question.
00:19:48 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So right now this is something we are working on.
00:19:51 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So there is different types of ballistic, different types of level of ballistic protection.
00:19:59 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Again, it's always about the weight.
00:20:01 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So this is what we're testing right now.
00:20:03 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
We're validating what's the requirement because right now the mask on the market, there's no ballistic protection at all.
00:20:08 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So it could be first for fragmental.
00:20:11 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And this is where we will build based on requirement and testing.
00:20:16 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
This is where we will go up into the level of defense, but basically the shell, you can change the shell so we can build any types of ballistic protection.
00:20:29 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It's about the weight and about the needs and finding the balance.
00:20:36 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So that's why we are testing the product right now on the field and it needs to be tested on the ground and being developed.
00:20:45 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Yeah, for sure.
00:20:46 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
For sure.
00:20:48 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Interesting.
00:20:49 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
And tell us some, can you tell us a bit more about kind of your journey kind of into, developing these products?
00:20:57 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Was that, was it something, I mean, I mean, did you study, did you study sort of this kind of technical engineering in university or was it a, did it come through the hunting background?
00:21:09 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
What was the kind of the evolution of it?
00:21:12 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So I have a bachelor and master degree in drug development medical device.
00:21:18 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So basically what we have built is literally a medical device for the outdoor industry and now for the defense.
00:21:27 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So all the material, all the methodology, all the structured certification, it follows this path.
00:21:36 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
But the key
00:21:39 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
that why we have so much success is not about me.
00:21:43 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It's about the team that is surrounding us.
00:21:47 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
There is so much different expertise needed to develop a product, and this is something that we were able to do from start.
00:21:57 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So when we launched the company, we built a very strong advisory committee that we built
00:22:05 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
surrounding us for every different types of challenge.
00:22:09 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And then we raised some funds with strategic angel investor that we choose and are bringing value with their knowledge, with their resources.
00:22:21 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And we're very good listening to them.
00:22:24 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And this is something that we've done since the start with this open-minded.
00:22:31 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And also, the product has been built and tested for the user, so we built, we rapidly prototype multiple versions that we put in the hands of the user and saying, Test, tell me where it breaks, tell me anything I want to know.
00:22:52 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
where we need to enhance the product and making no compromise.
00:22:56 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So it's about rapid iteration.
00:22:59 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It's about putting the product into the hand of the user.
00:23:02 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It's about.
00:23:03 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
listening, understanding, being very well surrounded with the people.
00:23:08 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And this is where all the success is coming from, no matter the, and it's going to be the same recipe for any types of market.
00:23:16 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
You just need to be so well with the people around you.
00:23:19 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
That's the key because it's impossible to know everything, all the aspects and being able to listen.
00:23:24 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Yeah.
00:23:25 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
You have to share a bit more about the team, the team's backgrounds or kind of experiences.
00:23:30 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Are they stealth or are they probably?
00:23:34 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So my co-founder, actually, I went to university with him and he was into the VC industry and then he was also coaching startup into an accelerator.
00:23:46 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So he understand how to raise money, but also he was coaching startups, seeing all the mistakes they've done in the past.
00:23:54 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So what to do, what not to do.
00:23:56 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So this was also a very big strength of us, understanding the ecosystem, the challenge ahead.
00:24:03 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
understanding how important the people surrounding us are important.
00:24:07 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And then we have advisor from three former military and defense Canadian Force.
00:24:14 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
We have the former president of the SIPAC, which is the biggest parks in Canada in the world.
00:24:23 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
These are all the person that we build in the team.
00:24:26 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
We also went with building a team with an amazing CTO who
00:24:31 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
was in this specific field for many, many years, understanding the process and how, what it takes to build a real product specifically for this.
00:24:43 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Yeah, fascinating.
00:24:45 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Well, let's pivot the question.
00:24:47 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
So, what is the
00:24:51 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
From your experience, what's the current problems and opportunities when working with defence?
00:24:54 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
I mean, I know we're an odd bunch, defence, veterans, defence sector can be, I mean, up until sort of five or six years ago, it wasn't really, people didn't really invest in defence today.
00:25:07 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
And then after 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine and then all of a sudden, like defence was interesting to investors and stuff.
00:25:13 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
So with that in mind, what's your experience been around the problems and opportunities with defence?
00:25:20 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So as you mentioned, the hard part is the clock.
00:25:24 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
A different sales cycle can be three to five years and a startup runway is 12 to 24 months.
00:25:30 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Nobody solves that with enthusiasm.
00:25:34 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
You solve it structurally.
00:25:35 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So the dual use for us bring us the direct to consumer, the sales, and then we can build these partnerships.
00:25:43 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
As you mentioned, right now,
00:25:45 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Things are changing, things are going fast.
00:25:48 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So this is something new that we never really saw before.
00:25:54 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It is very hard to say, will it be six months before getting these contracts?
00:25:59 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Will it be a year or two years?
00:26:01 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So we see very positive signs on the market, but we also need to be ready.
00:26:06 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
But to build these relationships,
00:26:09 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
understanding to put these products on the ground.
00:26:12 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And there is all these opportunities that were very, very hard to get a few years ago.
00:26:20 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So now they want to test the product, new innovation.
00:26:25 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So that's very good.
00:26:27 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
That's critical.
00:26:28 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
You may have the best technology.
00:26:30 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
If it's not test on the ground, it's worth like, we don't know what it's worth.
00:26:35 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And then
00:26:36 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
There's all the mindset, even with all the different companies looking for new technology so that, hey, you have this technology, maybe we can work together.
00:26:48 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So these are tons of opportunity that we need to be aware and collaborating, putting new technology together to bring a new solution.
00:27:02 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
This is where I see the most exciting part.
00:27:04 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It's about collaborating with auto priming.
00:27:06 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
This is what we're having right now is we're working with different types of primes to integrate our technology to their solutions.
00:27:16 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Because we may be the best respiratory solution in the market if we're not compatible fully with their helmet, with the biggest helmet producer.
00:27:25 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It's worth
00:27:26 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
doesn't worth nothing.
00:27:28 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And for them, they're building helmet.
00:27:29 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
If it doesn't fit with the best respiratory product in the market, we need to work together.
00:27:36 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And there is this openness and this willingness to partner right now, which is very promising for the rest, for all the company into the NATO industry.
00:27:48 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So very promising for the next month and years ahead with this philosophy.
00:27:54 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Fascinating.
00:27:55 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Yeah, thanks for sharing.
00:27:57 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Yeah, I can definitely vouch for some of those numbers.
00:28:00 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
We see some of the companies we interview and work with, they definitely see kind of longer than the three to five year mark, especially, I think, especially since 2022, I'd say, where the innovation cycle has been in like days or weeks rather than months and years.
00:28:18 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
I think now that's really disrupted defence procurement at large, is actually a new threat is identified and actually there's that kind of hurry to figure that gap out and then what that impact has on other procurement programmes.
00:28:33 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
So yeah, it's an interesting time in defence for sure.
00:28:38 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
But just before I let you go, because it's still very early in the morning for you, I'm really interested to know what's the future of Roosevelt?
00:28:44 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
What are you working on next?
00:28:45 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
What are you guys kind of
00:28:48 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
building next.
00:28:51 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So near term, we're moving from innovation mode to scale up mode.
00:28:57 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
That means industrialization, certification, manufacturing capability, and deployment with partners in Canada, Europe, Japan, and testing the product on the ground again and again.
00:29:12 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
And long term, it's all about
00:29:16 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
continue building these new features comes ballistic eyewear, ballistic protection, and building new technology and pushing more for the perfect product based on the user with the same platform and being able to integrate to any types of helmet and user.
00:29:42 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
So this is really the vision about
00:29:45 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
building a full combat system that will be able to be compatible and being the new standard in any types of industry and having this sovereignty capability prediction for all the NATO allies.
00:30:00 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Yeah, fascinating.
00:30:02 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Brilliant stuff.
00:30:03 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Well, that's a really great place to end it there.
00:30:06 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
So I'm going to say thank you very much for joining us on the Mililux Future Frontiers podcast and wish you
00:30:13 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
a great rest of your day.
00:30:14 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
Thanks very much.
00:30:15 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
Thank you very much.
00:30:16 Nicholas Monette, co-founder and CEO of Rozvelt, a company developing solutions to help soldiers operate more effectively in the field by managing one of the most overlooked sources of heat and smell, our breath
It was a pleasure.
00:30:19 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
It was really good chatting with Nicholas about the solutions they're creating.
00:30:22 Chris Shirley MA FRGS, Website Developer, Communications Specialist and Brand Designer at HIATUS _, The Defence Design and Communications Agency
If you want to find out more about them, check out the show notes below and we'll see you next time.
