Nucleation Capital Backs Nuclearn in $10.5M Series A Round

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Nucleation Capital is proud to announce its participation in NuclearN's second round of financing, its Series A, in which the company raised $10.5 million to accelerate the development a range of AI services aimed at the nuclear industry. This marks our second investment in NuclearN following our participation in their Seed round back in mid-2023.

The round was led by Blue Bear Capital, with participation from SJF Ventures and follow-on investments from existing investors AZ-VC and Nucleation Capital. The new funding will be used to advance development of Nuclearn's domain-specific AI solutions, increasing their offerings with new analytic and AI features that support operations, engineering, and regulatory compliance and accelerating market expansion.

NuclearN's solutions are already deployed in more than 65 reactors globally and the company is already profitable. This funding will therefore serve as a shot in the arm to accelerate the company's growth, just as AI is driving unprecedents demand for energy and existing nuclear power plants are being uprated, being restarted and being built. Nuclearn can help each plant improve its operational and capital cost bottom line and there is no end in sight to the benefits that may be realized through NuclearN's combination of nuclear operations data analytics and AI-optimizations.

Nuclearn's platform combines advanced AI with deep nuclear domain knowledge to automate complex workflows that typically require weeks of specialized personnel effort and support technicians in the field. Developed by founders with over 30 years of combined nuclear operations experience and trained on millions of specialized nuclear industry documents and diagrams, the technology understands not only what nuclear professionals need, but also the regulatory and safety context behind every decision. "We are extremely proud and pleased to continue to support this talented team and participate in the incredible work being done by NuclearN to improve nuclear power's safety, up-time performance and bottom line," said Valerie Gardner, Nucleation's managing partner.

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