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📝 Nuclearn raises $10.5M
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Tech giants like Meta, Google, and Microsoft are turning to nuclear power to fuel their energy-hungry AI ambitions, but the nuclear industry itself is also starting to embrace AI—albeit cautiously. Nuclearn, a startup founded by two former Palo Verde engineers, has raised $10.5 million to expand its AI software now used in more than 65 reactors worldwide. Rather than running reactors, the tools handle repetitive, paperwork-heavy tasks like generating documentation, which humans must still review and sign off on. Regulators classify AI as just another tool, like Excel, ensuring accountability always rests with people, not algorithms. As CEO Bradley Fox put it, the software is best thought of as a “junior employee”—useful for efficiency, but never fully in charge.
I’m pleased to announce our $100M Flybridge 2025 fund!!
This is our seventh seed fund. We've already cut three checks since the first close :)
Here's where we're investing…
1. Infrastructure → The picks and shovels. We backed MongoDB and Firebase in the cloud era. Now it's
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