Anton Toutov
Co-Founder and President of Astra Navigation
BsC, PhD
Arts and Sciences
Anton is the Co-Founder and President of software tech company Astra Navigation, Inc (AstraNav). A tech entrepreneur, scientist, and patented inventor, Anton earned a BSc from Queen鈥檚 University and completed an award-winning PhD under Nobel Laureate Robert H. Grubbs at Caltech. He has over 70 scholarly articles, patents, and patent applications to his name and he has written for Wired, TNW, and The Conversation. Anton's work has been spotlighted nationally and internationally by Nature magazine, NASA, Scientific American, The Royal Society (UK), The National Science Foundation (US), and in the documentary Element 19. Prior to AstraNav, Anton had co-founded several emerging technology companies, including KorvaLabs (acquired by Curative, Inc in 2020), Fuzionaire, and Fuzionaire Diagnostics.