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Exciting news from the Valar Atomics universe this morning… I’m thrilled to welcome Alexis Georgeson @alexisgeo to Valar Atomics as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer! For the last fifteen year, Alexis has spent her time helping to scale the most difficult hard tech companies, from the early days at Tesla, to building for scale at Waymo, to executive number three at Redwood Materials. In many ways, nuclear energy has been held back more by its narrative than by its tech tree. Valar Atomics is leading the field on hardware execution, as the only startup that has yet made nuclear power. But if Valar is going to make energy cheaper and more abundant in the universe than ever before, we must also tell the story of nuclear and the incredible benefit it will bring to mankind. For the last 15 years, Alexis has been working to bring the most exciting stories of new technology into the present; from electric vehicles to self driving cars to batteries. So excited to have Alexis join the team to tell the story of Valar Atomics and what nuclear energy can do for mankind!

Excited to welcome Brian Cummings to Valar Atomics as VP of Nuclear Operations! Brian has spent 20+ years both regulating and running nuclear facilities across the Navy, NRC, DOE, and new advanced nuclear companies. At INL, Brian ran the nuclear safety oversight program and led nuclear operations for the TREAT reactor facility. At Kairos, he helped to develop the Hermes PSAR and led the execution of their TRISO plant. Brian has chosen to take the next step in advanced nuclear and join us on our mission to make energy cheaper and more abundant in the universe than ever before. Grateful to have him on the team!

Deep Tech New York is back! 🦾 Get your tickets for DTNY 2027 -- taking place April 15th in Brooklyn -- for another day of mind-bending ideas, extraordinary speakers, and the founders building the future. Check out DTNY.co for more, or use the direct registration link below.

So excited for this! If you were there for DTNY'26 you know it was the must-attend deep tech event in the northeast. DTNY'27 is going to be even better! Going to be incredible speakers sharing the future they are building. Folks leading the charge on this amazing moment of technological acceleration, telling the rest of us about it! Sign up / get your tickets → we are absolutely selling out this year

NEW podcast episode is up! "How to Spot 10-Year Trends and Build Billion-Dollar Companies — Kevin Ryan of DoubleClick, MongoDB, Business Insider, and Many More" Kevin Ryan is one of the leading entrepreneurs and investors in New York. Often called the “Godfather of NYC tech,” he is the founder and CEO of AlleyCorp, a New York based venture capital firm that incubates and invests across healthcare, AI and software, consumer tech, deep tech, and more. Kevin is also the co-founder of several notable companies including MongoDB, Business Insider, Zola, Gilt Groupe, and Transcend Therapeutics. Earlier in his career, Kevin was the CEO of DoubleClick, which he helped grow from a 20-person startup to a publicly-traded company with more than 1,500 employees. Please enjoy!

This one's a must listen! 🎧 Kevin Ryan recently sat down with the legendary @tferriss for a wide-ranging conversation on tech, building companies, and spotting 10-year trends. Check it out in the links below!

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DTNY 2026 was an incredible time 🦾 DTNY 2027 is going bigger & better! 📈 Join us April 15, 2027 in @Newlab Brooklyn 🏙️

Bureaucracy has already throttled space exploration, and this article proposes creating a UN-affiliated 'Planetary Stewardship Council'? As a species, there are few things we actually agree upon here on Earth, so how could this possibly advance progress in space? No. The authors incredible accomplishments aside, as a society we need fewer bureaucrats regulating tethered caps on plastic water bottles and more doers if we want to see even a glimpse of that exciting future so many of us imagined as children. When the capabilities are there to send NASA astronauts back to the Moon and on to Mars, we will go. We will do so thoughtfully, as we always have, and we will do so for all mankind.

A New Golden Age of American Science is possible. We must prioritize the American Scientist, revive the national pursuit of ambitious scientific missions, and fully harness AI to accelerate scientific discovery. My piece in the @TheEconomist. economist.com/by-invitation/…

RAI-939 outperformed industry-leading aerospace material C103 by 125x. In a head-to-head torch test, Purdue Applied Research Institute confirmed that Radical AI’s RAI-939 sample exhibited superior environmental survivability to C103. C103 has been in use since the Apollo program, but its performance limitations and constrained supply have fueled a decades-long search for a replacement. Our lab discovered that replacement in just 16 weeks. Now, we aim to scale up production of the alloy to make bigger components.

So proud to announce that Avatar Robotics has raised $6.5M in Seed Funding, led by AlleyCorp, along with a preseed led by defy.vc. Warehousers around the country are wondering how they’re going to find the help they need to meet this year’s holiday volume. Robotics companies show great lab demos, but never solve the problems it takes to deploy to real facilities, where work is constantly changing. Avatar bridges that gap. In under a year, we went from an idea in my living room, to robots that have packed, sorted, and shipped over 900,000 products to consumers nationwide. With the funding, we’ll be bringing more robots to more facilities, accelerating our path to autonomy, and scaling our growing team of operators and engineers within the Avatar family. Tremendous thanks to our early customers who welcomed us into their work and challenges, our amazing team who ships solutions at the speed of light, along with our investors Headline, Henry Ford III, Refashiond, Paul Vogel, Jack Huffard, Samuel Udotong, and more. This has been the most exciting thing I’ve ever worked on, and it’s only the beginning.