Founder-Led, Systems-Driven, Long-Horizon
Wrek'd Tech was founded by Army veteran, Shamoka Aiken, a systems architect with over two decades of experience in IT, cybersecurity, and large-scale system design.
After witnessing the scale and consequences of electronic waste firsthand during military service, he has spent more than 11 years developing a comprehensive technical framework for addressing the structural limitations of existing e-waste recycling systems.
This work now requires academic research collaboration to validate core physics, chemistry, and systems-integration challenges.
Why This Matters Now
The convergence of several factors makes this work urgent and newly viable for rigorous academic investigation:
- Geopolitical supply chain vulnerability: Rare-earth element concentration in a limited number of countries creates strategic dependency that affects national infrastructure, renewable energy deployment, and defense systems.
- Regulatory tailwinds: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policies and circular economy mandates are creating structural incentives for advanced recovery technologies.
- Sensor and AI capability maturation: Technologies that were speculative a decade ago—multi-modal sensing, adaptive robotics, real-time classification—are now validated in adjacent domains and ready for integration.
- Climate technology investment focus: Capital is increasingly directed toward solutions that address both resource scarcity and environmental impact, creating a more receptive funding environment for validation-stage work.
- Academic research infrastructure: University labs now possess the specialized equipment and cross-disciplinary expertise required to validate complex materials recovery hypotheses.
Research Before Scale
Academic Validation
Component Prototyping
Academic Validation
Core physics and chemisty verification
Digital Modeling
Component Prototyping
Academic Validation
Simulation and systems anays
Component Prototyping
Component Prototyping
Component Prototyping
Module-level validation
System Demonstration
Component Prototyping
Component Prototyping
Integrated platform testing