Sophia Belser is co-founder and CEO of Laelaps AI, a deeptech company building a multisensor foundation model that gives machines a holistic, real-time understanding of the physical world. Platform agnostic by design, its technology fuses feeds from cameras, sensors and robots of any kind into one shared picture of reality — detecting static and dynamic threats, then tasking and coordinating the right assets in response. It builds on infrastructure organisations already own, turning existing sensor networks into an intelligent system with no rip and replace. What starts with securing perimeters scales further: the same foundation lets an agent sense, understand and act in any field environment. A quantum physicist with a PhD from Cambridge, Sophia is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe honoree.