🚀 @BoostVC 🤝 @EarthlingVC are investing in @ETH_en (ETH Zürich) with a $100,000 Startup Competition - to help incredible potential founders start building a deep tech company! Why we’re doubling-down on ETH: Boost VC and Earthling VC are pre-seed deep tech VCs, who love to be the first believer into ambitious founders. We've already backed four ETH-born teams in the last year or so: @nunudotai, @ogmentai, Ogment AI, @loki_robotics, Harbor Bio . These teams have gone on to raise from other top silicon valley investors as well. We’ve seen how great (yet underserved) the ETH Zürich ecosystem is, and we want to help build it up! Who should apply? Nothing is too early. We are just looking for great builders with ambitious goals and visions. Hardware and software both welcome! 🧑‍⚖️ @jjschnyder (CEO, Nunu AI), @GusDomel (Principal, Boost VC), @arian_ghashghai (Managing Partner, Earthling VC), @emilyyu1217 (Investor, Boost VC) will all be judging for the event. Share this with every ETH hacker and “what-if?” thinker you know! Let’s launch Europe’s next generation of deep-tech giants — starting in Zürich. Apply 👇

Samsung TVs will soon come installed with @VolleyGames (@BoostVC co) for playing AI games. BIG DEAL!

Another day, another first! We're the first reactor developer to officially sign a contract with @ENERGY to receive High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) fuel, keeping us on track for next year's test at @NRICnuclear's DOME facility at @INL. The agreement follows the Department of Energy's (DOE) April 9th announcement naming us as one of five HALEU awardees. But, each awardee still needed to successfully negotiate a contract to receive HALEU fuel. So, over the past couple of months, we've been working closely with DOE and other federal and private partners to negotiate specific terms and conditions. Now we're the first to sign a deal. “This agreement means the HALEU fuel can now officially be transferred, which keeps us on schedule to begin testing our Kaleidos Demonstration Unit at the DOME facility next year,” said @RitaB66, our Chief Nuclear Officer. “It also keeps the country on track to deliver on the President’s four executive orders signed in May to unleash America’s energy independence and innovation.” We're scheduled to be first to test a new reactor design at the NRIC's DOME facility next spring – marking the first test of a U.S.-designed advanced reactor at Idaho National Laboratory in almost 50 years. With this fuel agreement in place, we continue to move forward on our mission to build the world's first mass-produced portable nuclear microreactor -- and lead the way in delivering flexible, advanced nuclear technology to power American energy independence and national security. Onward to criticality!

A few learnings in 15 years of investing. 1. Be directionally correct. 2. Investing isn't about not taking risk. It's about knowing what risk you are taking. 3. Buy Bitcoin. 4. Sometimes old decisions are better than new ones.

As the saying goes, if you ain't 276, you're last.

👀 Love sending these emails to people who believed in us a decade ago 🤫

We’re proud to share that @Equinix, the world leader in digital infrastructure, has signed a deal and submitted deposits for the purchase of 20 Kaleidos microreactors. This is not only the largest deal to date for us, it’s the largest deal to date for any mass-manufactured reactor!

My son just turned 1 🎉 Parents: any advice as I enter year 2? (first boy👶)

People commonly say the record of truth is the blockchain. No, the record of truth is @etherscan. 10 years of shipping. 10 years of trust.

I think founders love 3 types of investors: 1) First Check 2) Largest Check 3) Most Helpful Check And #3 is where most VCs focus ('value add'), thus the most competitive and most difficult to stand out. As a VC, I would focus on #1 or #2 and do your best at #3.