Bluecore Energy Seed

US-headquartered; included on StartupList Africa under the African-founder criterion; outside the Africa startup-funding headline. $50M oversubscribed seed closed about eight weeks after the July pre-seed, led by Silverton Partners (Austin, TX) with substantial continued participation from pre-seed lead Slauson & Co. Returning investors: Harlem Capital, Precursor Ventures, LMNT, Visible Hands VC, Karman Ventures, Chris Larsen (Ripple co-founder), Capital Factory, Share VC, X&, Markham Ventures and HartBeat Ventures (Kevin Hart). New investors: MaC Venture Capital, Collab Capital, Vanderbilt, Scribble Ventures, Fortson, Borusan, Symphony Ventures, Act One Ventures, Animal Capital, Black Angel Group and Rackhouse Ventures, plus angels who are former leaders at Tesla, Uber, Amazon and Google and athletes/entertainers (Joel Embiid, Malik Monk, Taijuan Walker, NBA YoungBoy). Proceeds fund development, testing and NRC/US Coast Guard licensing of its 10 MWe floating water-cooled SMR at the Port of Long Beach, plus hiring. Note: The Register reports the $50M as inclusive of the $10M pre-seed; most outlets report $60M total disclosed.