Munich-based Proxima has raised €20 million ($21.7M) in a seed round to begin building its first generation of fusion power plants.
The startup is betting that software can supplant manufacturing precision in its quest to deliver reliable, inexpensive fusion power.
Helicity Space has closed a $5 million seed funding to accelerate development of a technology that could finally unlock fast, efficient travel in deep space. That technology is fusion propulsion, whic
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If the 2020s are going to be the decade of AI, then the 2030s could be the decade of fusion power. That is, if the sector’s startups are able to deliver.
Capital is pouring into the sector at an opportune time, as fusion power startups can now make rapid gains thanks to a convergence of factors.
We still don’t know what the scientists did to better their numbers, but the bump in energy-out suggests that the new results are not a fluke.
Fusion power is expensive and risky, but the potential rewards are enormous. Here's why 6 investors believe it could be the future of energy.
In the last few years, the state has become a hotbed of fusion startups. But it faces myriad challenges that could knock it from its pedestal.
Decarbonizing industrial heat isn't easy, but a startup thinks it can harness the power of the sun to make it happen.
There’s no way to create a definitive list of climate technologies to invest in, but here are three areas that deserve a closer look.
Helion, the clean energy company with its eye firmly on the fusion prize, announced a couple of years ago that it had secured $2.2 billion of funding to help it develop cleaner, safer energy at a comm
The company is betting that outsourcing will fast-track its unique fusion reactor designs.
A range of new fusion power companies are racing to build the supply chain for what could become a $40 trillion industry.
Commercial fusion is still probably decades away, but promising results show how we might get there.
For decades, fusion power has been just around the corner. Is this the moment we’ve all been waiting for?
Investors are betting large amounts of money on fusion. Here's why they're so confident the technology has banished the ghosts of its past.
Zap Energy has reached two milestones that could nudge it ahead in the race to offer low-cost, carbon-free energy — a $160 million Series C round, and a successful test of a prototype fusion reactor
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