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.

As a kid obsessed with physics I dreamed of a nuclear future But since the 1980s the regulatory environment made this impossible Also, as America outsourced its industrial base to China, our demand for power was stagnant Now there's a double why now: the AI build out + reshoring of manufacturing has made America hungry for power again Also, nuclear has become a bipartistan issue and the regulatory framework is rapidly improving Enter @isaiah_p_taylor with @valaratomics He is applying the Elon playbook to nuclear Find an industry that America used to be good at, but lost its way on: rockets, tunneling, manufacturing cars And then go build a simple unit, you can deliver quickly, to get on the exponential ramp in terms of real world feedback + early revenue + technological progress Then claw your way back to the prior state of the art, before pushing far beyond our prior limits I believe Isaiah is a generational founder and this is a generational company @sequoia is ecstatic to partner with him and the Valar team (Especially when we get to do it with our friends at Valar, Conviction, Atreides, and the early investors here) And massive thank you to @PalmerLuckey for giving me a tip regarding how special this company is