Scaling energy ⚡️ + industrial 🇺🇸 startups at @gener8tor 👉 gener8tor.com/nevada
Reno, Nevada
- Tweets 36,463
- Following 159
- Followers 20,075
- Likes 34,008
Most founders have no idea Nevada is doing this. ⚡
The only active lithium mine in the U.S. The Tesla Gigafactory. An industrial park larger than the city of Detroit. Reno-Tahoe is the #5 emerging data center market in the world.
Battery manufacturing growing 6x the national average. Zero income tax. Electricity roughly half California rates. And it's only a 3-4 hour drive from Silicon Valley.
We built a @gener8tor accelerator here because this is where energy companies should be building right now.
Electrify Nevada is equity-free, state-backed, and open to founders across battery tech, critical minerals, grid edge, commercial electrification, AI infrastructure, and physical AI.
One requirement: you want to build in the fastest growing energy economy in the U.S. 🇺🇸
We are open to any stage, globally. We want the best energy founders in the world building in NV.
Fall 2026 applications are open. First round closes June 30.
Comment BIG ENERGY and I'll send you the link to apply early and get a first review.
7
6
37
73,200
Tristan retweeted
BREAKING: Argentina is aiming to deploy up to $7B into hard tech through a partnership with the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
The financing would support critical industries such as critical minerals mining and processing with U.S. equipment, power grid upgrades, and commercial space through 2027.
12
88
3,153
PSA: @RenoStartupWk kicks off next Monday, Sept 28 and runs all week.
If you are building hard tech and reindustrializing the west, I want to meet you there.
1
290
Tristan retweeted
If you're in LA for LA Tech Week in a few weeks (specifically Oct 14, 8pm), @zanemountcastle (@Picogrid) and I (@DiscipulusVent) invite you to join us for a Gundo bonfire.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Gundo from the inside, so don't miss out.
Register on Partiful below 👇
6
15
195
8,103
Need: NV
Bringing autonomy to the next fight: wildfires.
Anduril has earned first place in the Autonomous Wildfire Response Track within the @xprize competition.
Our solution manages the entire wildfire lifecycle with minimal human intervention. Lattice coordinates assets across air, land, and space to detect and respond faster.
The award reflects Anduril's deep experience building firefighting tech including more than two years of dedicated work with XPRIZE. During the rigorous finals test in the Alaskan wilderness, our platform autonomously detected, fought, and suppressed live fires.
Destructive wildfires are a global crisis. Anduril and XPRIZE are pioneering faster, more scalable and more automated ways to fight them.
307
And Nevada is the Saudi Arabia of geothermal!
BREAKING: America is making one of the largest government investments in next-generation geothermal energy in U.S. history.
DOE is deploying $99M+ across 21 projects for near-commercial-scale geothermal testing and exploration drilling for new resources, potentially opening far more of the American subsurface to 24/7 geothermal power.
ALT Example geothermal site. Source: Fervo Energy
346
Tristan retweeted
Thanks, Peter! This is the beginning of the end for destructive wildfires. In a country that loses ~$500B every year to wildfires, even tiny gains make for huge savings, to say nothing of the incalculable value of lives and homes.
Congrats to @PalmerLuckey and Anduril for winning the Wildfire XPRIZE - for detecting and suppressing a wildfire within 10 minutes of ignition!
627
1,683
24,838
813,179
Tristan retweeted
Big VC doesn't want you to know this one trick: you can have 5x gross MOIC in 48 months and not wait 10 years for 3x 😱
continue to believe <$100M early stage funds can deliver >5x gross MOIC at 48 months -> monetize via secondaries to long term buyers —> create outlier cash on cash returns
delivering venture alpha is harder because the market is so efficient post series A sometimes even seed
9
1
120
14,915
And they are speaking at UNR’s new A&D academy rn
3/ @Mach_Industries - $600M at $3.7B
A Series C extension three months after the $300M original at $1.8B. Ribbit, Infinite, Bedrock and Sequoia all joined
A vertically integrated arms manufacturer: VTOL strike drones, counter-drone interceptors, and the propulsion and energetics to build them in-house.
Founder Ethan Thornton is 22. Total raised now past $1B
1
443
Reno based AI chip maker 👀
2/ @positron_ai - $875M at $5B post money
Worth ~$1B in February. 5x in seven months
Inference chips built around memory, not compute. Instead of scarce HBM, Positron packs commodity LPDDR5X, sidestepping the two supply queues everyone else is stuck in.
1
414
Is Nevada minting more unicorns per capita than any other state this year?
@positron_ai (Feb)
@sendcutsend (May)
@tensorwave (Jun)
Ridgeline (Sep)
4 new unicorns. 3.3M people.
California would need 48 this year to match that rate.
231
Breaking
Crusoe has raised $3.9 billion in Series F, co-led by @Atreidesmgmt, @MubadalaCapital, and @valor Equity Partners.
This capital will help us grow across our AI factories, from large-scale campuses to modular Crusoe Spark units, and continue to innovate with Crusoe Cloud.
The full chain, from electrons to tokens: crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom…
530
Tristan retweeted
Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurers, found that Waymo's autonomous vehicles generated 88% fewer property damage claims and 92% fewer bodily injury claims than human-driven vehicles.
humanprogress.org/waymo-driv…
10
166
1,044
310,469