Hunter Markerson

[Carter Steffes @SteffesCarter]

My impression upon meeting @AssilHalimi was that he was obsessed. But not in the same way as every other great founder. He had a different gear and an undeniable aura of seriousness that made him feel impossible to doubt.

Every step of his life story, from his upbringing in Algeria, to his work on SMRs in France and his research at MIT, all pointed towards founding Apollo Atomics.

My team and I are grateful to be a very small part of his story that is just getting started.

Back to work.

[Assil Halimi @AssilHalimi]

Today, we are announcing our $31M seed financing at Apollo Atomics.

The $26M equity is led by FCVC with participation from Y Combinator, TeleSoft Partners, Alumni Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, Duke Capital Partners, Robinhood Ventures, and Nucleation Capital. $5M of equipment financing is provided by Oak Ridge Financial.

Apollo Atomics is the only nuclear company that can deliver high power output nuclear reactors (>80 MW) on a truck. The higher power density is the strongest argument for cost effectiveness and mass manufacturing in the nuclear industry today. We achieve this without relying on exotic/scarce fuel, unqualified materials, or high regulatory uncertainty.

Achieving that goal is a mirage if you don’t build the right company. With Drew Walker, we have assembled an extremely talent dense team with Excellence, Intensity, and Execution at its core. We are running a low power reactor demonstrator within MIT and now building a full scale 1 MW reactor prototype under commercial reactor conditions. We work directly with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to support a commercial deployment in 2028.

Apollo Atomics is not hardware in vacuum, we are building software solutions for autonomous reactor control, licensing support, and reactor modeling to reduce OpEx and deployment timeline.

Deeply grateful to our early investors for supporting our mission when no one else believed particularly Genesis Fund, Arjun Gupta, and New Era Ventures, to our early supporters within Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, TNT, MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.

Excited to have many brilliant individual investors supporting our mission including Paul Graham, Evan Meagher, CFA, Philip Johnston, Ray Rothrock, Matteo Franceschetti

[LSU Basketball @LSUBasketball]

Welcome Home, General.

Will Wade is the next head coach of your Fighting Tigers!

@CoachWadeNCSU | @LSUsports

📄 https://t.co/I0OvLJGqhh

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Elite 2027 EDGE Jaiden Bryant has Committed to LSU, he tells me for @Rivals

The 6’4 255 EDGE from Irmo, SC chose the Tigers over South Carolina, Georgia, Miami and Alabama

He’s the No. 1 EDGE in the ’27 Class (per Rivals)

“Lane Train”

https://t.co/kJKNoMSxHK

[AB @AB84]

Tiger Bech - True American Hero 🫡

RIP King

[Princeton Football @PrincetonFTBL]

Princeton Football mourns the loss of Tiger Bech ‘21.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to all of the victims of the Bourbon Street attack.

https://t.co/aLWMyd57lL

[Boot Krewe Media @BootKreweMedia]

Set It Off in Death Valley with the new lightshow #LSU

[Hunter Markerson @HunterMarkerson]

@TheJeffVaccaro Awesome! Thanks for sharing Jeff!

[AP Top 25 @AP_Top25]

BREAKING: LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels is The Associated Press college football player of the year.

Read more: https://t.co/KYef0G5oBM

[Max Toscano @maxtoscano1]

Picking Nix over Daniels would delegitimize the award

[Dan Orlovsky @danorlovsky7]

Based on present day performance (last 12-18 months)

Who are, in totality (not just 1 sport but majority of them), the top 5 athletic institutions in country?

-LSU
-Bama
-Uconn
-Michigan
-Florida

That’s my top 5

[LSU Baseball @LSUbaseball]

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em

@__dc4__ | #ThePowerhouse

[LSU Baseball @LSUbaseball]

THE TIGERS ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

[Sam Burns @Samburns66]

🐐

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

Please join me in prayer for Damar Hamlin 🙏

[Lane Kiffin @Lane_Kiffin]

Tried to tell you guys after our game!! That guy will completely change a game once he started @LSUfootball

[Hunter Markerson @HunterMarkerson]

@damiry0321 @LSUBarstool @AP_Top25 Must feel good to talk shit for the first time in 24 years. Stay in your lane, you will be humbled soon.

[NFL @NFL]

.@JoeyB returns to NOLA wearing @Real10jayy__'s @LSUfootball National Championship jersey. 🤝

📺: #CINvsNO -- 1pm ET on CBS
📱: Stream on NFL+ https://t.co/LIF7AUOzNH

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

K’Levon Chaisson has changed athletics forever.

Introducing THE T REX RUN

[LSU Football @LSUfootball]

Where will @JoeyB land in the #NFLTop100 🤔🤔

📺 @nflnetwork