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Jon Ylvisaker
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22yrs. NY HF/PE Managing Parner, 5yrs Founder, Managing Partner, Critical Frontier VC - software - defined hardware in energy, defense, space, manufacturing
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Congrats @mavriaX @OverReactor1776 @adamblake @nickporadek! @critfrontiervc couldn’t be more enthusiastic about these founders, and this team, to execute on this market opportunity. It’s time to …maximize the efficiency of what we’ve already built! 🙏🏼👏🏼. I know @OverReactor1776, for one, is not worried about a heavy lift! 💪🏻
Mavria’s mission is to ensure that America delivers frontier infrastructure as quickly as we release frontier models.View quoted post on X
Even though we founded Mavria in June, our story started back in 2025. @adamblake, @nickporadek, and I spent over a year of our lives fighting inside the US government to help secure a better future. In the modern world, all progress is just a wrapper on energy. When imagination outpaces power delivery, the unyielding laws of physics always win. Accelerating our society up the Kardashev scale meant, and still means, rethinking how we arrange atoms in the physical world, no different than rethinking the architecture behind AI models. We found stagnation across nuclear, transmission, and scientific research, and we did our level best to help. But there is always more work to do. And in my life, I’ve always looked for gradients, places where I can best leverage my time and energy for the most impact.
Thankfully, I’ve had the privilege of learning how to deconstruct existing industrial processes and how we govern them alongside some of America’s most brilliant founders, leaders, thinkers, and builders. That’s why, when Adam and Nick asked me to join them on something new, I said yes. I knew that if we set out to build one of the most important industrial platforms of the 21st century, we would succeed. Since starting, we’ve assembled a team of incredible people and supporters who share our vision, and, more importantly, our refusal to accept a different outcome.
Mavria starts, but by no means ends, with Terrain, a modular data center platform that will revolutionize AI infrastructure across the United States. When we say Terrain will deploy in weeks, not months or years, we mean it. Faster deployment means shorter time to tokens, but it also means less disruption to our host communities, the most important partners in our entire ecosystem. In the same way we helped shift the dialogue around nuclear and the fuel cycle, Mavria will work with towns, counties, states, and the federal government to help change how average Americans feel about their future in a world of abundant intelligence.
Like nuclear, data centers get a bad rep (in some cases, deservedly so). But, also like nuclear, America needs more data centers. Growing up, watching the Jetsons, I always felt robbed of the nuclear-powered future that society promised to my parents. What I thought was a failure of imagination turned out to be a failure of execution and loss of social license. Yet, support for nuclear power increases the closer you get to an operating nuclear plant. We see a world where data centers also get more popular the closer you get to Terrain. We’ve learned the lesson; don’t stop building, just build better.
Scaling Terrain will allow us to develop the tools we need to tackle other critical infrastructure projects, too. When we prove ourselves in data centers, Mavria will then manufacture products upstream from Terrain until adding more compute seems as simple as using it. And then, we will build even more. Keeping our promise means that America can keep its promise as the land of opportunity, a world where anyone with a dream, tenacity, and a refusal to believe in “no” can cobble together the resources to build something extraordinary. It means that when my children watch the Jetsons, they will not long for a fumbled future.
Come help us keep our promise. Come build the future with Mavria:
mavria.com/careers
There are start-up companies with better, faster, cheaper solutions commercializing soon…
And electrical equipment, cooling, networking and batteriesView quoted post on X
It’s time to get SuperCritical 🔥
What better way to introduce ourselves than through this brilliant explanation of what we're building from @IanRountree. Ian and @cantos wrote Arbor's first check and have been backing us ever since.View quoted post on X
Grateful for our supporters and excited for the big announcements to come! 🚀
