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Have you listened to the latest Generation Space podcast episode with Zeno Power? The conversation looks at how Zeno Power is developing nuclear battery technology to deliver long-duration, reliable power for use in the most challenging environments, with insights from Founder Tyler Bernstein alongside Seraphim's Leah Martin and Lucas Bishop. Here’s the link: https://lnkd.in/exddPQ7f #SeraphimSpace #DualUse #GenerationSpace #ZenoPower #SpaceTech #EnergyInnovation #FrontierTech #DeepTech

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$VWAV - VisionWave Assembles Full Multidisciplinary Due-Diligence Team for Solar Drone Acquisition; Enters Final Due Diligence for Proposed Solar Drone Acquisition; Intends to Explore Vision-RF Integration if Deal Closes WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. and RAMAT EFAL, Israel, Nov. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VisionWave Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: VWAV) (“VisionWave” or the “Company”) announced today that it has completed assembling its full due-diligence team for the proposed acquisition of Solar Drone Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of BladeRanger Ltd. (TASE: BLRN), as previously disclosed in the Company’s LOI and Form 8-K filings. The Company has mobilized a combined force of legal, technical, regulatory, financial, strategic, and advisory professionals who are now working day and night—both on-site in Israel and remotely from the United States—to advance the transaction toward execution of the definitive agreement as soon as practicable. In addition to commercial applications, if the acquisition is completed, VisionWave intends to explore potential integration of its Vision-RF sensing and autonomy technologies into Solar Drone’s platform, with the goal of enhancing the drone’s capabilities for homeland-security, emergency-response, and critical-infrastructure protection missions. This reflects the Company’s continuing expansion of its Vision-RF ecosystem, most recently demonstrated in VisionWave’s recent provisional patent application related to WaveStrike. Comprehensive Review of the Transaction Underway As part of the current diligence phase, VisionWave and its advisors are conducting a full review of the proposed acquisition, including: Commercial readiness and deployment use-cases Technology verification, IP ownership, and integration feasibility Manufacturing pathways and operational scalability Financial, revenue, and cost-structure validation Tax, legal, corporate, and M&A compliance Regulatory considerations across the U.S., Israel, and international markets The Company emphasized that this phase is progressing on schedule, with teams embedded directly at Solar Drone’s facilities to ensure full validation prior to finalizing the definitive Share Purchase Agreement. Professional Advisors VisionWave has engaged the following to advise on the proposed transaction: Fleming PLLC as U.S. securities and transaction counsel An Israeli legal counsel A financial and tax due-diligence advisor VisionWave Leadership & Technical Team Working On-Site https://lnkd.in/eW53eGHN VisionWave Holdings

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🚨 BREAKING: 8090 Industries & Fidelis New Energy launch American Intelligence & Power Corporation, a Premier Energy & AI Infrastructure Platform, with Strategic Support from Sanjeev Mordani of LuminArx Capital. Read more below: https://lnkd.in/g3SDtNVS 💡 AI leadership is not a software problem. ⚡ It is an energy and infrastructure problem.  🇺🇸 The next chapter of American power will be written in electrons delivered, uptime guaranteed, and gigawatts built. For the last several years, a small, relentless group of infrastructure developers, engineers, operators, and builders responsible for some of North America’s largest energy infrastructure assets like the Alberta Power Line, Ørsted North America, Howard Energy Partners, WhiteWater have been working quietly on something most people said was IMPOSSIBLE: A purpose-built, sovereign, utility-grade AI power and compute platform. Today, that work has a name:  American Intelligence & Power Corporation 🚦 And it has a flagship site Monarch: America's First Legislatively Authorized Integrated AI Utility & Compute Campus authorized under West Virginia House Bill 2014 (HB2014) as its own islanded utility with special microgrid status This is a AI-scale microgrid and compute campus designed from first principles for intelligence workloads: – 2,380 acres – 8 GW of power generation enabled via land, license, gas supply and water – Extreme load-following capability for AI – Sovereign operational control – A blueprint designed to scale nationally The world is entering an era where compute is industrial, energy is geopolitical, and uptime is national security. Monarch is our opening move. Deep respect to the Fidelis team who spent years building this before it had a headline. Proud for 8090 Industries to be a founding strategic partner in forming AIP with Daniel Shapiro, Bengt Jarlsjo, Gardner Boulmay and team. And grateful to the state and federal leaders like Former Senator Joe Manchin and Governor Jim Morrisey who understood that if America wants to lead in AI, it must first lead in power. Stay tuned. We are just getting started. 🇺🇸⚡ 🦾 cc Kerem Ozmen Wes Mendenhall Grant Brown Brett Buchanan Sanjeev Menon Byron Best Pete Hollis Garuth A. Christie Allardyce Shilpa Patel Michael Jarlsjo, CPA Hannah Jarlsjo Jake Shapiro Sam Shapiro

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Congratulations #ParadigmEmissionsTechnologies!!! Brown and White Ventures has reached an agreement to invest in Paradigm, a pioneering clean-tech startup based in Rochester, NY, focused on advancing the sustainability of diesel engines through innovative emissions-reduction decarbonization technology. Founded by #JohnErbland and Neville F. Rieger, Paradigm Emissions Technologies designs and manufactures a patented decarbonization plasma technology device that significantly reduces CO₂ emissions, improves engine fuel efficiency, and lowers fleet maintenance costs. With the potential to eliminate global CO₂ at gigaton levels, Paradigm Emissions Technologies provides a pathway to net-zero emissions, while helping fleets operate cleaner, longer, and more sustainably. “We are proud to be investing in the team at Paradigm and its outstanding system,” said Jim Aroune, General Partner with Brown and White Ventures, LLC. “It presents an opportunity in the emissions control sector, and the significant diesel engine base that operates in our communities and our industrial, construction and municipal sectors.” “We’re honored to have Brown and White Ventures join us as a strategic partner in this next phase of growth. Their investment is a strong vote of confidence in our technology and our mission to deliver practical, real-world solutions that reduce emissions and improve air quality today,” said Erbland, founder, and CEO of Paradigm Emissions Technologies.  Paradigm Emissions Technologies has developed its system to address pollutants produced by diesel engines without requiring filters or chemicals.  Its device creates a low-maintenance alternative to traditional filtration systems that is compatible with both exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and downstream aftertreatment configurations. “Investing in Paradigm aligns with our commitment to energy and technology startups, and manufacturing in Western New York and the Rochester/Finger Lakes regions,” said Aroune.  “The Paradigm system offers fleet operators a compliance-ready option without having to replace equipment or modify support systems.” Paradigm Emissions Technologies will launch pilot programs in 2026 in fleets operated by:  #MonroeCounty Casella, #LewisTree and Regional Transit Service (#RTS) to validate performance and demonstrate real-world impact. “This support (from Brown and White Ventures) will accelerate our ability to scale, deepen our pilot programs, and bring our technology to more fleets and OEMs that can’t afford to wait for other powertrain technologies to become viable,” said Erbland. Its investment in Paradigm Emissions Technologies will mark the first time the venture capital fund will invest in a startup founder who is an alumnus of St. Bonaventure University University. Erbland earned a B.A. in Economics from #SBU. The investment in Paradigm is also Brown and White Ventures first portfolio company doing business in the #Rochester #FingerLakes region.

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We are thrilled to celebrate Powerline’s $7M Seed round and our partnership with this exceptional team. Led by Matineh Eybpoosh and Julian Lamy, Powerline is solving the most critical bottleneck of the energy transition: the "Intelligence Gap." As global energy demand surges, the grid requires capacity that is both faster to deploy and hyper-efficient to operate. Powerline is proving that the answer lies in software-driven intelligence. Their AI platform — the Battery Co-Pilot™ — radically improves the unit economics of energy storage, converting batteries from passive backup into high-yield financial assets. They are already delivering measurable results across the energy lifecycle: Existing Installations: Retrofitting "brownfield" battery portfolios with an intelligence layer that captures missed revenue and manages market volatility. New Deployments: Providing the digital testbeds needed to scale global fleets with institutional precision, significantly shortening the path to ROI. Legacy Displacement: Delivering a cost-effective alternative to polluting "peaker-plants," which can cost up to $200/MWh more than an optimized Powerline fleet. While solar-plus-storage is now consistently 20-30% cheaper than new-build gas, the real victory is in how that hardware is managed. At J-Impact Fund, we focus on the massive value creation that occurs when technology turns energy scarcity into abundance. By shifting the grid from a model of expensive, finite fuel to one of persistent, harvested power, we unlock superior financial upside. For us, deep decarbonization is the inevitable byproduct of this superior economic model. Congratulations to Matineh, Julian, and the entire team—we are proud to be on this journey with you. #EnergyStorage #AIOptimization #VentureCapital #AssetManagement #SeriesSeed #FinancialAlpha

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We are pleased to support Universal Matter Inc. Their innovative approach turns waste into high-performance materials, helping hard-to-abate industries reduce emissions and build a more circular economy. This project exemplifies how energy innovation can drive meaningful impact for both industry and the environment.

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Vibe shift: Sustainability Magazine just featured the grid stabilization and renewable energy acceleration features of Bitcoin mining, the 11th Climate Focused media publication to do so.

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This week in venture deals that matter for America (#AmTech): Saronic Technologies raised $1.75 billion in Series D funding at a $9.25 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Advent International, Bessemer Venture Partners, DFJ Growth, BAM Elevate, 8VC, Caffeinated Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Elad Gil, and Franklin Templeton. Saronic designs and mass-manufactures autonomous surface vessels for the U.S. Navy and other defense customers. The Navy wants to make half its surface fleet unmanned, and last year awarded Saronic a $392 million production contract for its 24-foot Corsair, an unmanned vessel that costs under $2 million and can carry heavy payloads up to 1,000 nautical miles. Founders: Dino Mavrookas, Vibhav A., Doug Lambert, Rob Lehman. ThinkLabs AI, Inc. raised $28 million in Series A funding led by Energy Impact Partners, with participation from nVentures (NVIDIA), Edison International, GE Vernova, Powerhouse Ventures, Active Impact Investments, Blackhorn Ventures, Amplify Capital, and a large North American utility. ThinkLabs builds physics-informed AI "grid twin" models that help electric utilities plan and operate power grids under rising demand. Its platform can simulate 10 million grid scenarios in under 10 minutes, work that used to take engineers days or weeks. As AI data centers put new strain on the American grid, utilities need better tools to figure out where they can add load without breaking things. Founder: Josh Wong. NomadicML raised $8.4 million in funding led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Pear VC, Jeff Dean, Scott Wu and other angels and executives. Nomadic builds a spatial intelligence and visual data engine that turns raw video from autonomous vehicles and robots into structured datasets, edge case detection, and training data. As American companies race to put autonomous systems on roads and factory floors, Nomadic helps their engineering teams learn from real-world data faster. Founders: Mustafa Bal, Varun Krishnan. #VC #Startups #VentureCapital #DefenseTech #Energy #Grid #Robotics #Autonomy #AI

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Awesome to lead this round with so many great investors already around the table. The Blue Energy team is truly world class, the demand is massive, and the tailwinds couldn't be stronger. But those are table stakes. I have the battle scars from managing and executing various contracting vehicles, and I can definitively say that Blue Energy's shift from Cost Plus/Time and Materials to Firm Fixed Price is not a minor contracting strategy change, it's absolutely tectonic in this industry.  Looking forward to seeing this team usher in the next era of affordable nuclear build out!!

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🚨 The “Big Beautiful Bill” just passed—and it could be the most consequential climate rollback in U.S. history. ⚡️ Wind and solar tax credits are set to phase out years earlier, threatening over 70% of planned clean energy projects. 🚘 EV and battery incentives are being slashed, stalling adoption and investment. 🛢️ Fossil fuels, LNG, and permitting reforms are prioritized, reversing much of the momentum from the Inflation Reduction Act. 📉 An estimated 330,000 clean energy jobs could be at risk, while U.S. competitiveness in climate tech may falter just as global rivals double down. In this rapidly shifting landscape, evaluating what is ahead of the industry would be very critical. 🔔 Join Us for an Exclusive Webinar | July 8 @ 6:30 PM PST Navigating Clean Energy Funding: Insights from Former DOE Leadership 🔔 Vectors Capital is thrilled to host a 30-minute power session + live Q&A with Victor Scott Kane, Former Deputy Director of Commercialization at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Whether you're a climate founder, corporate innovator, or investor, this is your chance to hear directly from DOE leadership on how to strategically position for upcoming funding opportunities and policy shifts. 🎯 What You’ll Learn: ✅ Insider tips on DOE funding strategy ✅ Navigating grants, cooperative agreements & prize competitions ✅ Practical guidance for successful applications ✅ Implications of the new Senate bill for innovation, investment & industry partnerships 🗓️ Tuesday, July 8 🕡 6:30 PM PST 📍 Virtual | Zoom link upon registration 👉 Register Now: https://shorturl.at/cgBIf Let’s unpack what’s next for the climate innovation ecosystem—together. #climatetech #policy #DOE #energytransition #cleantech #venturecapital #grants #non-dilutivefunding #cleanenergy #webinar #BigBeautifulBill

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Honored and excited to partner with Drew Baglino and the incredible team at Heron Power as they re-imagine the electric grid for the modern world. Power in America is not zero sum. We deserve access to cheap and abundant electricity and we should win the AI race. And we must build the capacity to manufacture critical technology here at home. When faced with existential challenges, we deploy technology against them. And we win.

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Seed Stage Venture Debt? Most early founders think venture debt is something you raise at the Series B or later. It is seen as something you layer on once the business is fully “bankable” and later stage. But what if this paradigm is limiting growth for early stage companies? And what if founders can utilize a flexible product at the early stages to reduce dilution? At Top Corner we see it differently: - We underwrite The Founder and to enterprise value, not formulaic metrics - We believe debt can work much earlier, typically right after product-market fit (Seed/Series A) - Our debt is designed to support founders, not constrain them - Our structures are flexible, with none of the traditional debt mechanics that weigh down early stage founders (financial covenants, MAC defaults or investor support clauses) - Our process is fast (think weeks, not months) - Our capital is significantly less dilutive than equity, but can be used just like a dollar of equity: to hire, build, experiment and scale When used for growth, debt can help teams hit more milestones and empower founders to raise their next round on stronger term, all while preserving meaningful ownership for both founders and early investors. A recent example: Top Corner partnered with NxLite in February 2025, providing Seed stage debt capital that allowed the company to acquire critical equipment and fully prepare its 45,000 squarer foot production facility prior to raising additional equity. NxLite produces advanced coatings for windows and transparent barriers that dramatically reduce energy consumption and support a more sustainable built environment. With this early capital, NxLite achieved production capacity to serve a strong roster of Fortune 500 enterprises, creating a strong foundation for its next phase of growth. NxLite closed a $9.2M Series A in September 2025 at a meaningful valuation increase. We’re excited to support David Mather and the NxLite team as they build on this momentum. https://lnkd.in/g-Fipd9K

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At Brightstar Capital Partners, we believe success begins with strong relationships built on trust, alignment, and a shared vision to help great businesses grow. While capital is essential, we focus on building long-term partnerships built through hands-on experience and a commitment to lasting value. Our investment evaluation process is grounded in sectors we know deeply. We focus on cash-flowing businesses where we see an opportunity to optimize operations and foster ownership culture, helping to grow the company better than it could on its own. Ultimately, we judge success by a simple question. Five or 10 years after we exit, if someone calls a founder or partner we’ve worked with and asks, “Should I work with Brightstar?” I want the answer to be yes. That is our definition of real value creation.

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Excited to finally share what we’ve been building over the past year. Today we’re announcing the first investment from ARKITEKT EQUITY. Over the past year, we have been closely observing the structural shifts occurring within semiconductor ecosystems. As manufacturing systems become more complex, the infrastructure enabling those systems becomes increasingly strategic. These environments demand operational clarity, coordination, and long-term alignment. ARKITEKT was built around a simple idea: durable value is created where frontier technology meets pragmatic execution. Our investment in BBTech reflects this conviction. This is just the beginning of what we aim to build at ARKITEKT EQUITY. Stay tuned! https://lnkd.in/g_pQiBZY

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Fund launch updates from this week 👇 VENTURE CAPITAL Thrive Capital ($10B) — Thrive Capital, New York Battery Ventures XV ($3.25B) — Battery Ventures, Boston Frist Cressey Ventures Fund IV ($425M) — Frist Cressey Ventures, Nashville PRIVATE EQUITY HGGC Fund V ($3.2B) — HGGC, Palo Alto JLL Partners Fund IX ($1.4B) — JLL Partners, New York Kinterra Critical Materials & Infrastructure Fund II ($950M) — Kinterra Capital, Toronto Soundcore Capital Partners Fund III ($450M) — Soundcore Capital, New York SECONDARIES & GP-STAKES Coller Capital / Ares Credit CV ($1.3B) — Coller Capital, London INFRASTRUCTURE Meridiam Infrastructure Europe Core Fund ($2.6B) — Meridiam, Paris https://lnkd.in/gNQxsh-M

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Commonwealth secures a significant $863M Series B2 funding to propel its fusion energy platform forward. Explore more: https://lnkd.in/eYHpJ3e8 #FusionEnergy #Innovation

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Hexcel Adds Independent Director in Deal With Activist Investor "Hexcel added a new independent director to its board in a move that avoids a potential proxy fight for the aerospace materials company with activist investor Vision One Fund. "As part of an agreement between the two sides, Vision One will withdraw their nominees to the board that were to be voted on at the company's annual shareholder meeting. Vision One will also support Hexcel's board nominees, and agree to certain standstill restrictions and mutual non-disparagement provisions, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. "The new director, former Kaman Chief Executive Officer Neal Keating, was appointed effective Tuesday." Keating's experience in aerospace may make him an ideal director choice. Yet from a bigger picture perspective, I wonder if this settlement is the right move for investors. More and more activist campaigns are settling rather than running the full process of a proxy fight with typically a greater number of directors nominated by the activist. Hopefully, activists are becoming like the public company boards they battle, i.e. more focused on reaching consensus than big results. #governancearbitrage #proxyfights #corporategovernance #activistinvesting #valuecreation https://lnkd.in/gazBUGFp

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