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New financing round benefits Valar
Hawthorne, Calif.–based reactor start-up Valar Atomics recently announced that it has raised $130 million in its Series A funding round, led by venture capital groups Snowpoint, Day One, and Dream.
Tonya Vitova (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Bianca Schacherl (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Michelangelo Tagliavini (Heidelberg Univ.), Harry Ramanantoanina (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Hanna Kaufmann (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), David Fellhauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Tim Prüßmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Karin Popa (European Commission, Joint Research Centre), Olaf Walter (European Commission, Joint Research Centre), Maurits Haverkort (Heidelberg Univ.), Jochen Autschbach (Univ. Buffalo), Paul Bagus (Univ. North Texas)
Proceedings | Plutonium Futures - The Science 2024 | Charleston, SC, September 8-12, 2024 | Pages 6-7