How we started
Veridian was founded by serial entrepreneur, Bennett J. Lee, while studying as a Sloan Fellow at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. With over a decade of experience with small nuclear reactors, he asked the question, “How would we have the impact of fusion, but with technologies that exist today?”
After a year long independent study on climate change and the help of a US Department of Energy National Lab, Bennett researched decades of old government programs, technical studies, and novel technologies to design the Veridian ecosystem.
“I founded Veridian on the belief that the American spirit of innovation, technical excellence, and sincerity towards the mission that allowed us to build the first Atomic Bomb and send a man on the moon will allow us to succeed in this generation’s transition to net zero. ”
Technologies from Sandia National Labs
Veridian is licensing a full suite of breakthrough technologies out of the nation’s premiere research institution, Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM.
Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-disciplinary US Department of Energy Laboratory with a budget of $4.4 billion annually. Sandia grew out of America’s World War II effort to develop the first atomic bombs. Today, Sandia has evolved to address the additional complex threats facing our nation. Sandia’s staff of about 15,000 includes more than 7,441 with advanced degrees.