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Jesse's background isn't that of a traditional robotics founder. His strength is connecting technology, funding, partnerships and narrative.

Jesse Siegers is the founder of ATLAS, a company building wearable exoskeleton technology designed to transfer physical load from the hands and upper body into the legs and ground. His work sits at the intersection of technology, applied research and real-world use.

Alongside ATLAS, Jesse is Managing Director of CogniGron at the University of Groningen, where he helps translate ambitious scientific goals into strategy, partnerships and innovation programmes around neuromorphic computing. In that role, he works between science, industry and public institutions, helping turn advanced research into something that can actually be built, tested and adopted.

Before ATLAS, Jesse worked across government, economic development and technology entrepreneurship. He previously helped build Whatsub, an AI-powered platform that makes it easier for organisations to find and apply for subsidies. Earlier in his career, he worked as an economic advisor at local, regional and national level, including at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was involved in subsidy procedures and funding allocation.

ATLAS builds on that same practical instinct: take a complex system, understand where the friction is, and make it usable. The aim is to reduce physical strain for people doing demanding work, while keeping movement natural and intuitive — and to build not only a technical product, but a credible route from idea to prototype, from prototype to use case, and from use case to a company that can matter.