Adrian Fenty

Excited to announce @MaCVentureCap has co-led the $20M seed round of @rdvrobotics alongside @Toyota_Ventures, with participation from a strong syndicate of existing and new investors that include the @UMich endowment, @AsteraVentures, @IndustriousVC, @Aurelia_Foundry, @ATXVenture, and @Mana_Ventures. Rendezvous is a company building spacecraft structures that assemble themselves in orbit. Thanks @payloadspace for covering the story. payloadspace.com/exclusive-r…

Grateful for everyone who came out to @FlybyRobotics LA Tech Week Factory Field Day event. It’s joyful for me that people get to experience our custom Gemma 2 running entirely on board for the first time. Thank you for everyone who came out. It’s time to build in America

After 7 years quietly building, it was fun to share some of my mistakes & learnings @MIT this week. @fun's last financing was done at a $425M valuation, and we’ve now grown 9x since our $72M Series A. Our 30d volume just crossed >$100B annualized. A few of my mistakes along the journey 🧵

Really really cool that NYC Public Schools have chosen Aku for their fall book club!! @AkuDreams @randomhousekids

Thanks to @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman and his team for visiting our Moses Lake Test Site recently! Great to show off hot fires of both our Andromeda and Zenith engines as they complete their qualification campaigns.

We're bringing nuclear power to the Moon in 2028. Today, @Zeno_Power announced an agreement with @Firefly_Space to fly our Americium-241 Radioisotope Heater Unit (RHU) and Survive-the-Night Package on an upcoming Blue Ghost mission, in support of @NASAMoonBase. The race back to the Moon is a race to stay, and staying means surviving the two-week lunar night when temperatures fall below -280°F. Today, America is behind. Since 2019, China's Chang'e 4 mission has survived repeated lunar nights using radioisotope technology to stay alive. Recent U.S. lunar missions, relying on solar power and batteries, have not survived. That's about to change. After Blue Ghost completes its lunar-day operations, our RHU will provide continuous heat to keep the Survive-the-Night Package running through the dark as it transmits operational data back to Earth. NASA's demand signal for this was explicit: it specifically incentivized this mission to demonstrate surviving the lunar night with radioisotope technology by 2028. With Firefly, we're answering that call. Permanence is a power problem. @NASAMoonBase – and the dozens of missions in the coming years that will build toward a permanent lunar presence – will require nuclear at a scale that doesn't exist today. At Zeno, we're ready to meet that demand. Ad Lunam Per Nuclear!

government destroys value. in this case, the value of an American education was destroyed in ~40 years. if there’s no marketplace for customers (parents of students) to demand value (quality of education for price paid) by simply going to another service provider (school or educator), it is inevitable that costs will go up and quality will go down. this is true of any service provided by government, which effectively grants itself a monopoly, deleting the opportunity for other service providers to compete in offering better value to customers/citizens…

Beginning today, we are industrializing nuclear battery production at the historic Vallecitos Nuclear Center. With this facility, we will deliver our first nuclear battery to customers in 2027 and scale production in 2028 - powering critical missions from the seabed to the lunar surface.

Not every mission needs a megawatt. Nuclear batteries will power the next frontier – beginning in 2027.

Countries that win put builders in charge. Amazingly proud of CTA leader @Ximenatech . From DC startup founder to Chile’s new Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation. Huge moment for Chile—and the global tech ecosystem 🇨🇱🚀

You can, in fact, just do things. @stoke_space [776] will likely end up being one of my best seed investments ever. This team is special. nitter.cf/i/status/2042371341421…