CategorySpace
Overview
Nuclear battery company building radioisotope power systems (RPS) for space and terrestrial applications. Founded in 2018 by Vanderbilt university alumni Tyler Bernstein, Jonathan Segal, and Jacob Matthews. Uses strontium isotopes instead of plutonium for lighter, more accessible nuclear power.
USD 50M Series B in May 2025 led by Hanaco Ventures. Over USD 40M in government contracts including USD 30M STRATFI from DOD and USD 15M NASA Tipping Point award.
Reality check
Vallecitos manufacturing (company-claimed)
Jun 2026: Setting up nuclear battery manufacturing at the Vallecitos Nuclear Center in Sunol, California, with NorthStar restoring hot cell infrastructure.
Delivery schedule (company-claimed)
Jun 2026: Initial government deliveries targeted for 2027, with scaled production beginning in 2028.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Funding and contracts (company-stated, Jun 2026)
Terrestrial demo
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Zeno Power on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 1 region, newest verified May 2026. Explore where Zeno Power's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Zeno Power deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Tyler Bernstein CEO & Co-foundersecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Tyler Bernsteincofounderfounded 2018-01-01
Safety record
No incidents on record for Zeno Power.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Zeno Power2 deployments
Recent coverage
Zeno Power in third-party press
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every Zeno Power competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aescapedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allen Control Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amazondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amity Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (3)
Registry pages whose text names Zeno Power.
Robots and products (1)
People (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $70.0M
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (2)
- Series B2025-05-01
Investors: Hanaco Ventures (lead), Seraphim (follow), Balerion Space Ventures (follow), JAWS (follow), Vanderbilt University (follow)
- Series A2022-05-01
Investors: Tribe Capital (lead), DCVC (Data Collective) (follow), 1517 Fund (follow), AIN Ventures (follow), Pallas Ventures (follow)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Zeno Power’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2025-05-01Series B
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2022-05-01Series A
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMay 1, 2026
RPS Radioisotope Power System at Sunol, California, USA (Vallecitos Nuclear Center)
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2025
RPS Radioisotope Power System at Sunol, California, USA
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-13
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-13
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Zeno Power.Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Zeno Power from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Tyler Bernstein, Zeno Power
Growing up, Tyler Bernstein’s favorite NASA missions—from Mars rovers to Voyager’s interstellar journey—all had one thing in common: They all ran on nuclear batteries. The post…
Zeno gets a chance to use its nuclear heater on the moon
A nuclear-powered heater built by Zeno Power Systems is slated to fly to the moon aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander for a demonstration mission that could take…
Zeno Power Books its First Nuclear Mission to the Moon
Zeno Power is ready to pull its first all-nighter. On Wednesday, the nuclear-energy startup announced a commercial payload agreement with Firefly Aerospace ($FLY) to send a…
NASA funds research into nuclear heaters for astronauts
NASA says it’s funding a new batch of far-out research projects, including a study evaluating how radioactive heaters can keep astronauts warm while they work on the moon. The…
Zeno Power gets $30 million to build radioisotope-powered satellite for U.S. military
Zeno Power awarded USD 30M STRATFI contract to build a radioisotope-powered satellite for the U.S. Air Force by 2025. Uses strontium isotope instead of plutonium. Founded at…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/zeno-power.md
- RSS feed: /companies/zeno-power/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/657e1aa0-b3d8-4cba-b762-54a8aebd9473
- Revision history: /companies/zeno-power/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
Video
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Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Zeno Power draws attention at the 90th percentile but verifies reality at the 62nd percentile among space robots. Hype Gap +27.9, 13th widest among space robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Broad public reach with 73.2M video views. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 6, 2026