Valerie Gardner is the Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital. https://nucleationcapital.com/
Nucleation Capital invests in innovative companies enabling the transition to a carbon-managed economy. NC’s focus is on early-stage ventures working primarily on advanced nuclear energy, advanced smart grids and deep decarbonization ventures.
Valerie has founded or co-founded four ventures, including two technology ventures—Willow Peripherals and WebTV Networks (acquired by Microsoft)—where she served as both Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel, and two investment firms—Tiemann Investment Advisors (now with over $300M in AUM) and Nucleation Capital—launched in 2021 with Rod Adams.
Nucleation Capital rolling fund is a venture fund that invests in leading advanced nuclear and climatetech ventures. Managed by Rod Adams, a former Navy “Nuke” with decades of nuclear industry experience, and Valerie Gardner, a former tech entrepreneur, CFO, and investment principal, Nucleation Capital makes investing in next-gen nuclear both possible and affordable.
Nucleation accepts new investors on a quarterly subscription basis through its online portal. Fund applicants select their subscription term and amount and must pass an accreditation check (performed by AngelList Ventures). Once accepted, investors participate in every investment on a pro-rata basis for the duration of their subscribed term. A subscription of 8 quarters will produce a portfolio of 10 to 12 holdings and a subscription of 12 quarters will produce a portfolio of 15 to 18 holdings, so the longer the subscription, the more diversified your portfolio will be.
8 Comments
Anyone who is against new nuclear energy answer this question. What is worse ?
A nuclear accident, that on a global scale is relatively small, has a very very low chance of happening and can be contained and managed in the vast the vast majority of cases.
Vs
The climate crisis running out of control, us smashing through 1.5°c warming heading on to 5°c, which triggers all the tipping points on the way, causing a feedback loop and making an extinction level event happen before the end of the century… 🤔
To all the people who say yeah but what about the "nuclear waste"
So called "nuclear weaste" is actually spent nuclear fuel that has valuable materials that can be utilize to generate energy and provide benefits to society. By using new nuclear technologies like the Molten Chloride Fast Reactors (MCFR) you can destroy everything you don't want like transuranics actinides, spent nuclear fuel and plutonium. But at the same time make new valuable materials like u233. By having the (MCFR) wrapped in a thorium blanket as we destroy the "nuclear weaste". We can use the U233 produced to start new Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTRs) that will run on only thorium, produce almost no "nuclear weaste" and never run out of power.
The only argument against [nuclear energy] is a political one, that people won’t accept it, or people won’t want it. I don’t think there are any engineering or physics challenges that can’t be fairly easily addressed, and that includes the cost, if the will is there to do so. With time running out fast we must have a pragmatic way of thinking regarding nuclear, not an ideological one.
It would take 51.4 billion 350W solar panels to power the world!
Put another way, this is the equivalent of a solar power plant that covers 115,625 square miles.
For wind It would take 1.49 million wind turbines to supply the world's energy needs, if we only used extremely efficient turbines (i.e. ones that create 4 MW of power at 40% capacity). This would require 5.85 million square kilometers. All this is not including how much power it would require to power the worlds transport needs… Add in to that the intermittency of solar and wind and it's just not gonna come close.
So you see, New nuclear is the clear answer!
Nucleation Capital is here: https://nucleationcapital.com/
spamming the repeat button!
2:10 heh, she doesn't know CO2 tracks temperature because that's the way NOAA and NASA cook the data.
2:45 The Inflation calculation goes wonky in the Early 90s, no longer useful for business. and that's when the number of events explodes… Odd that
Just need Sciencing Re-search practices that know what they are doing and talking about, and can tell the difference between Fusion and fooling yourself because it pays well, a very ordinary human behaviour.
I turned it off after 2 minutes of climate change crap. There is no climate crisis, period, end of story, Elvis has left the building.
There are, however, 3+ billion reasons to be pro-nuclear, CC is just not one of them.
ESG is just a way of funneling money to progressive allies.