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Curated links & reports

194 hand-picked external resources — research reports, data tools, talks and reading — curated by Nucleation Capital. These link out to the original sources.

Source: Nucleation Capital

Deep-tech & investing

Y Combinator Library ↗ ycombinator.com
SAFE ↗ ycombinator.com
Steve Blank ↗ steveblank.com
Zero Carbon Capital’s General Guide to TEA for Early-Stage Founders ↗ zerocarbon.vc

Start here to learn how to build a "living model" that identifies your critical cost drivers from day one.

Idaho National Laboratory’s TEA of SMR Technology ↗ inldigitallibrary.inl.gov

Essential for nuclear founders to understand the actual scaling equations and First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) cost risks.

DOE EERE LCA and TEA Training ↗ energy.gov

A training repository for quantifying your technology's impact potential—mandatory for accessing 2026 federal grants and tax credits.

Randy Komisar ↗ roadtripnation.com

, a Partner Emeritus at Kleiner Perkins, is the co-author of

“Straight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds.” ↗ amazon.com
Guy Kawasaki ↗ guykawasaki.com
The Art of the Start 2.0 ↗ guykawasaki.com
Matt Trevithick ↗ leitmotif.vc

, a veteran venture capitalist and Co-Founder of Leitmotif Ventures, noted in a seminal panel on cold fusion that “Silicon Valley is a state of mind where entrepreneurs harbor a healthy disregard for

comprehensive guide to non-dilutive funding ↗ joinarc.com

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Simple Agreement for Future Equity ↗ ycombinator.com
www.cooleygo.com ↗ cooleygo.com
Wilson Sonsini ↗ wsgr.com

maintains a practice dedicated to these opportunities, tracking federal funding and tax credits for sectors including

Wilson Sonsini Energy and Climate Solutions Hub ↗ wsgr.com

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Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) ↗ energy.gov
ARPA-E ↗ arpa-e.energy.gov
Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) ↗ gain.inl.gov

is the most critical program for nuclear founders.

SBIR website ↗ sbir.gov

, you can find relevant grants tailored to your field. The application process requires a competitive proposal including a business plan, executive summary, cost proposal, and technical proposal.

Official SBIR Roadmap ↗ sbir.gov
Solicitations List ↗ sbir.gov
three-phase ↗ sbir.gov
seedfund.nsf.gov ↗ seedfund.nsf.gov
new.nsf.gov ↗ new.nsf.gov
seedfund.nsf.gov ↗ seedfund.nsf.gov
www.nsf.gov ↗ nsf.gov
I-Corps ↗ nsf.gov
13 Regional Hubs ↗ nsf.gov
Desert and Pacific Hub ↗ desertpacificicorps.org
Great Lakes Hub ↗ greatlakesicorps.org
Great Plains Hub ↗ gp-icorps.org
Interior Northeast Hub ↗ in-icorps.org
Mid-Atlantic Hub ↗ midatlanticicorps.com
Mid-South Hub ↗ midsouthhub.org
New England Hub ↗ neicorps.org
New York Hub ↗ newyorkicorps.org
Northeast Hub ↗ icorpsnortheasthub.org
Northwest Hub ↗ nwicorps.org
Southeast Hub ↗ icorpssoutheasthub.org
Southwest Hub ↗ swicorps.org
West Hub ↗ icorpshubwest.org
Executive Summary ↗ nsf.gov

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Idaho National Laboratory (INL) ↗ inl.gov
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) ↗ lanl.gov
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) ↗ ornl.gov
AFWERX (Air Force) ↗ afwerx.com
DIU (Defense Innovation Unit) ↗ diu.mil
Breakthrough Energy ↗ breakthroughenergy.org
Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative ↗ chanzuckerberg.com
AIGrant ↗ aigrant.com
Singularity University ↗ su.org
PropelX ↗ propelx.com
Schmidt Futures ↗ schmidtfutures.com
Google AI Impact Challenge ↗ ai.google
Venture Studios ↗ inniches.com

is a fast-growing sector, with the number of Venture Studios (VS) now exceeding 1,000. VSs have various models, but often germinate venture ideas in-house and then recruit a team and launch a startup

Y Combinator ↗ ycombinator.com
Cyclotron Road ↗ cyclotronroad.org
Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp ↗ nuclearinnovationbootcamp.org
Breakthrough Energy Fellows ↗ befellows.smapply.org
Path Power ↗ path-power.com

a Nucleation portfolio company—was an Innovation Fellow who emerged from this fellowship.

Deep Science Ventures (DSV) ↗ deepscienceventures.com
Marble Studio ↗ marble.studio
Venture for Climate Tech ↗ djkriozere-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com
Newlab ↗ newlab.com

(Brooklyn, Detroit, and elsewhere), launched in 2016, brings founders together with experts from industry and provides a plethora of shared resources to power entrepreneurs in the creation of “frontie

TechStars ↗ techstars.com
Equinor Ventures ↗ equinor.com
National Grid Partners (NGP) ↗ ngpartners.com
Amazon's Clean Energy Accelerator ↗ aws.amazon.com
SAP.iO ↗ sap.io

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Incubatorlist ↗ incubatorlist.com

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Failory ↗ failory.com

,

Crunchbase ↗ crunchbase.com

, and

OpenVC ↗ openvc.app
CalTestBed ↗ caltestbed.com
Next Energy Nexus, CA ↗ newenergynexus.com

), this initiative provides testing vouchers (historically up to $8.8M total per cohort) for clean energy innovators to use at one of more than 60 world-class facilities. Applicants must be California

Activate Fellowship ↗ activate.org
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge ↗ hello-tomorrow.org
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ↗ techcrunch.com
Climatebase Fellowship ↗ climatebase.org
EPIC Pitch Competition ↗ energy.gov
Startup World Cup (Silicon Valley) ↗ startupworldcup.io
regional competitions ↗ startupworldcup.io

around the globe.

H-Prize (Hydrogen Shot Incubator) ↗ energy.gov
Singapore Urban Mobility Week ↗ sgurbanmobility.com
Deep Tech Showcase ↗ deeptechshowcase.com
American Dynamism (Andreessen Horowitz) ↗ a16z.com
Bessemer Venture Partners ↗ bvp.com
Breakthrough Energy Ventures ↗ b-t.energy
Boost VC ↗ boost.vc
DCVC ↗ dcvc.com
Eclipse VC ↗ eclipse.vc
Energy Impact Partners ↗ energyimpactpartners.com
Engine Ventures ↗ engineventures.com
Founders Fund ↗ foundersfund.com
Insight Partners ↗ insightpartners.com
Khosla Ventures ↗ khoslaventures.com
Leitmotif ↗ leitmotif.vc
Lux Capital ↗ luxcapital.com
Playground Global ↗ playground.global
Prime Movers Lab ↗ primemoverslab.com
SOSV ↗ sosv.com
Union Square Ventures ↗ usv.com
Climate Tech USA 2025: What Happened? ↗ youtube.com
Deep Tech Opportunities Report 2025 ↗ dcvc.com
The CREO FOAK Framework ↗ lnkd.in
The state of U.S. science and engineering 2024 ↗ ncses.nsf.gov
Deep-tech reports ↗ hello-tomorrow.org
Raising Capital from the DOD ↗ steveblank.com
The ARPA-E Impact ↗ arpa-e.energy.gov
Grants 101 ↗ grants.gov
Other U.S. Government Grants ↗ simpler.grants.gov
Contrary Capital ↗ contrarycap.com
Nucleation Direct Messages ↗ angel.co
Nucleation (Fund I) Posts ↗ angel.co
Your Portfolio Dashboard ↗ angel.co
Atomic Insights ↗ atomicinsights.com
x.com ↗ x.com