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| Jul 31, 2026 | CAIS Secures $170M Series D, Propelling AI-Driven Alternative Investments to $2 Billion Valuation | CAIS secured $170M in Series D funding. This capital injection values the alternative investment platform at $2 billion. Vista Equity Partners led the round. Key investors included AllianceBernstein and Carlyle. The funds will aggressively ... |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems: $1 Billion Fuels Commercial Fusion Energy Future | Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) secured $1 billion in fresh equity funding. This landmark investment pushes their total capital raised to $4 billion. The substantial capital injection fuels development of two critical projects: SPARC and ... |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1B From Pension Funds in Fusion Industry First | By Daniel Butler
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| Jul 30, 2026 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises Additional $1 Billion, Bringing Total Raised To $4 Billion | Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it raised $1 billion in additional equity financing. The company said this is the largest single funding round among fusion energy companies worldwide since its $1.8 billion Series B round in 2021.
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| Jul 30, 2026 | CAIS Raises $170M At $2 Billion Valuation To Expand Alternative Investment Platform | Funding Fuels Platform Expansion And AI Development
The New York-based alternative investment platform CAIS secured $170 million in Series D financing that will support the enhancement of the firm’s technology platform and fuel expansion. T... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1 Billion To Advance Commercial Fusion Power | Funding Strengthens Commercial Fusion Ambitions
Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises $1 billion to make fusion power real Boston, United States, Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises $1 billion in new equity funding for “commercially operating a... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1 Billion in Funding | Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a Devens, MA-based commercial fusion energy company, raised $1 Billion in additional equity financing.
Backers were not disclosed.
The raise brought the total amount to $4 Billion.
The company intends to use the... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Scores $1B |
DEVENS, MA, Global leader Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) today announced that it raised $1 billion of additional equity financing.
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| Jul 13, 2026 | Europe's Fusion Future: Proxima Secures Google Backing for Stellarator Power | Proxima Fusion, a German startup, secures a massive $468M funding round, with Google as a strategic investor. The mission: build Europe's first commercial stellarator fusion power plant. This critical investment accelerates the intense glob... |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Instead of Blocking Earth's Sunlight, Nudge Earth 0.3% * * * Using Nuclear Fusion to Fight Global Warming Should Be Evaluated | WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 14, 2026) - Researchers at UC San Diego have just unveiled, "among the craziest options to protect Earth," a "radical plan to ‘dim’ the Sun" by "injecting particles into clouds to turn down th... |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Поддерживаемый Безосом «термоядерный» стартап General Fusion первым в отрасли вышел на биржу | Канадская General Fusion стала первой компанией термоядерной отрасли, акции которой будут торговаться на бирже. Она уже завершила слияние со SPAC Spring Valley Acquisition Corp III, после чего получила листинг на Nasdaq. По итогам сделки Ge... |
| Jul 8, 2026 | Proxima Fusion Secures €411M: A Giant Leap for Europe's Fusion Energy Ambition | Proxima Fusion, a Munich-based stellarator company, has secured a landmark €411 million ($468 million) funding round. This values the firm at €2.4 billion ($2.7 billion). Strategic investors Google and RWE participated, alongside numerous v... |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Google backs nuclear fusion startup targeting Europe’s first commercial power plant | Google backed Proxima Fusion in a €411 million, or $468 million, funding round.
Proxima is targeting Europe’s first commercial fusion power plant.
The company aims to have a fusion demonstrator running in the early 2030s.
Google has backed ... |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Google backs Proxima Fusion in $468M funding round to build Europe’s first commercial fusion power plant | Google is placing another major bet on nuclear fusion, joining a €411 million ($468 million) funding round for German startup Proxima Fusion as Europe pushes to secure a place in the global race to commercialize fusion energy.
The investmen... |
| Jul 1, 2026 | CFS named first international partner in UKAEA's LIBRTI programme | Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the world's largest fusion energy company, is the first international company to join the UK national fusion laboratory's flagship programme to test new tritium blanket technologies.
CFS to gain early acce... |
| Mar 28, 2026 | OpenAI хочет закупать термоядерную энергию. Что происходит? | Источник.
Мы уже говорили о том, как повсеместное распространение искусственного интеллекта связано с ростом цен на оперативную память. Кажется, пришло время обсудить еще один момент. Инфраструктура для ИИ — это дата-центры по всему миру и ... |
| Mar 16, 2026 | Who’s Who in Tech: Antares Working on Nuclear Solution | |
| Nov 12, 2025 | Meet Xeonova, an Ant-backed startup powering China’s nuclear fusion ambitions | Xeonova, a nuclear fusion technology company, has raised a nine-figure RMB sum in a pre-Series A funding round, according to 36Kr, citing sources familiar with the matter. The round was led by Ant Group, with participation from Hidden Hill ... |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Family offices make fewer deals but still flock to AI startup mega-rounds | Sign up for the new Inside Alts newsletter
2025 has been a subdued year for deal-making by investment firms of the ultra rich.
The last quarter of the year is off to a lackluster start, with direct investments by family offices falling 63% ... |
| Oct 20, 2025 | The race to build a star on Earth | Over the past five years, private sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested is approaching US$10-billion, from a combination of venture capital, deep-tech investors, energy corporations and sovereign governments.
Mos... |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Eni and Commonwealth Fusion Systems sign $1 billion+ power purchase agreement, expanding strategic partnership to commercialize fusion energy | Eni, as a CFS strategic investor, signs offtake agreement worth more than $1 billion for clean fusion power from CFS' first ARC power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
The agreement strengthens the strategic partnership between Eni an... |
| Sep 1, 2025 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863 Million in Funding
Only paid subscribers can comment on this post | Commonwealth Fusion Systems is a company focused on developing fusion energy, which is a promising new technology for generating clean, nearly limitless power. The company aims to be the first in the world to commercialize this technology. ... |
| Aug 30, 2025 | Fusion Energy Giant Secures $863 Million Investment from Tech Leaders | Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a leader in fusion energy, raised $863 million in new funding. This major capital injection advances commercial fusion power. Prominent investors include Nvidia, Google, and Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventu... |
| Aug 30, 2025 | Commonwealth: $863 Million Series B2 Funding Secured For Advancing Fusion Energy Platform | Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the largest and leading private fusion company, announced that it raised $863 million in a Series B2 fundraising round. New investors in CFS include: Brevan Howard Macro Venture Fund; Counterpoint Global (... |
| Aug 29, 2025 | Nvidia, Google и Билл Гейтс вложили $863 млн в стартап термоядерной энергетики | Американский стартап Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), работающий в сфере термоядерной энергетики, привлек $863 млн инвестиций. В раунде приняли участие Nvidia, Google, фонд Breakthrough Energy Ventures Билла Гейтса и десятки других инвест... |
| Aug 28, 2025 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863M in Series B2 Funding | Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a Devens, MA-based private fusion company, raised $863M in Series B2 funding.
New investors in CFS included (in alphabetical order): Brevan Howard Macro Venture Fund; Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley); ... |
| Aug 28, 2025 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $863 Million Series B2 Round to Accelerate the Commercialization of Fusion Energy | This round of capital is the largest raised among deep tech and energy companies since CFS' $1.8 billion Series B round in 2021.
The almost $3 billion that CFS has raised to date is about one-third of the total capital invested in private f... |
| Aug 28, 2025 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Grabs $863M |
DEVENS, MA, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the largest and leading private fusion company, today announced that it raised $863 million in a Series B2 fundraising round.
>> Click here for more funding data on Commonwealth Fusion S... |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Google makes first foray into fusion in venture with MIT spinoff Commonwealth Fusion Systems | Google announced a partnership with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, or CFS, a private company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The tech giant will buy 200 megawatts of clean fusion power from what CFS describes as the w... |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Google strikes deal to buy fusion power from MIT spinoff Commonwealth | Previous
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Google is shown on a building in San Diego, California, U.S., October 9, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A Google logo is seen at a company research facility in Mountain View, California, U.S... |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Faraday Factory announces it has delivered over 5,000 km of high-temperature superconductor tape to fusion industry | Faraday Factory, the world's largest manufacturer of high-temperature superconductors, announces achievement of 5,000 km cumulative deliveries to disruptive fusion projects worldwide
TOKYO, Sept. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Faraday Factory Jap... |
| May 1, 2024 | Commonwealth advances heart of fusion machine | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The biggest and most well-funded fusion company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, has made progress on a key part of its first machine, the company tells Axios.
Why it matters: As fusion companies race to... |
| Mar 4, 2024 | MIT researchers achieve fusion energy breakthrough | In a breakthrough that paved the way for unlimited carbon-free energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers successfully tested a novel high-temperature superconducting magnet capable of generating a world-record 20-tesla m... |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Термоядерная энергетика, токамак и ITER | Иллюстрация с сайта проекта ITER / www.iter.org
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| Apr 18, 2023 | 7 common pitfalls for hardware startups and how to avoid them | You’ve likely heard that “hardware is hard”; mostly because hardware startups have to deal with things that software companies don’t really have to worry about. That includes pesky details such as “physics” and “battery management” and “gen... |
| Apr 12, 2023 | Talking with Future Ventures about its new fund, AI hype, and Siri sucking (still) | For a firm whose bets are largely unpredictable, the early-stage venture firm Future Ventures has become very formulaic in its fundraising.
Now entering its fifth year, the firm just closed a $200 million fund – its third in a row. In fact,... |
| Feb 13, 2023 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Opens Fusion Energy Campus on The Fastest Path to Bring Clean Fusion Energy to the World | Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) officially opened its new campus to support the development and deployment of commercial fusion energy. The ceremonial event included visits from U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm, U.S. Senator ... |
| Dec 19, 2022 | The Biggest Tech Innovations And Breakthroughs Of 2022 | Each year, a handful of innovations, breakthroughs, and discoveries push the boundaries of what is possible using technology. The most important are those that help to solve problems and overcome challenges that impact our planet or our eve... |
| Oct 2, 2022 | The biological theory that explains why investors are bullish on fusion | For decades, the answer to when fusion power would arrive was like the punchline to an oft-repeated joke — it was always 10 or 20 years away. Now, it might actually be on the cusp of commercialization.
No, really.
If that refrain sounds all... |
| Aug 17, 2022 | Tiger Global vs SoftBank: Part 3 | In the first two parts of the series, we deep-dived into various facets of Tiger Global and SoftBank, from tracing their origins to dissecting their playbooks. In the third and final part of this series, we’ll explore the geographic concent... |
| May 10, 2022 | Tiger Global, hit by $17B in hedge fund losses, has nearly depleted its latest VC fund | Tiger Global is having a year.
According to a new report from Financial Times, the low-flying-yet-seemingly-ubiquitous 21-year-old outfit has seen losses of about $17 billion during this year’s tech stock sell-off. FT notes that’s one of th... |
| Mar 17, 2022 | What is public purpose technology and why does it matter right now? | Dr. Johannes Lenhard
Sometime last year, in one of my many calls with VC investors, I spoke to someone based in Denmark who had reached out to learn more about my research on VC ethics. He explained his investment thesis in detail as well a... |
| Feb 23, 2022 | Climate investment is heating up with more than $40B invested across 600+ deals in 2021 | 2021 was a hell of a year for startups operating in the climate space. Globally, around 1,400 investors are looking at the next generation of companies that are tackling climate change. They deployed more than $40 billion across more than 6... |
| Jan 18, 2022 | Nuclear fusion energy device at General Atomics coming back online | After a shutdown of nearly six months for upgrades, a powerful magnetic chamber on the campus of San Diego’s General Atomics that is instrumental in the search to someday make nuclear fusion a practical source of energy is poised to restart... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | The future of the metaverse depends on tech companies avoiding past pitfalls | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
The metaverse is all the rage in tech at the moment. But as companies including Facebook (now Met... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Equinor : stepping up on fusion investment | In September CFS announced the successful test of the world's strongest high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet.
(Photo: Gretchen Ertl, CFS/MIT-PSFC)
Equinor Ventures (EV) is increasing its investment in Commonwealth Fusion Systems (C... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1.8 Billion in Funding to Commercialize Fusion Energy | CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announced it has closed on more than $1.8 billion in Series B funding to commercialize fusion energy. This includes capital to construct, commission, and opera... |
| Apr 22, 2021 | Shiny Happy Future: SHINE-Phoenix Merger Focused On Advancing Fusion Technology | A nuclear technology company and a medical isotopes company have merged. In fact, they’ve kind of re-merged, since they were founded by the same man, Greg Piefer. But there’s a wider story here of the maturing of the fusion energy industry ... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030 | In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion.
The 20-year-old fusion ene... |
| Feb 13, 2021 | Commonwealth Fusion (CFS), a nuclear fusion startup backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, aims to generate unlimited clean energy for the planet | Back in July 2020, we wrote about General Fusion, a British Columbia, Canada-based renewable energy startup that is transforming how the world is energized by developing the first commercially-viable fusion power plant.
General Fusion was ... |
| Jan 25, 2021 | From Zero To Mach 2 In Months, How HPC In The Cloud Helped Startup Sensatek Land An Air Force Contract | Reamonn Soto, founder and CEO of Sensatek, with one of the ceramic sensors that the company bonds to ... [+] the blades of jet engine turbines.Sensatek |
| Jan 14, 2021 | Nuclear fusion tech developer General Fusion now has Shopify and Amazon founders backing it | In a brief announcement today, the Canadian nuclear fusion technology developer General Fusion announced that the investment firm created by Shopify founder Tobias Lütke has joined the company’s cap table.
The size of the investment made by... |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Clean energy funding: Ex-Tesla CTO raises $40 million to recycle batteries, plus nuclear fusion and fission | $40 million for recycling batteries
Redwood Materials, the startup founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel raised a reported $40 million in venture capital from Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Capricorn Investment Group. Redwood raised $2 mill... |
| Aug 25, 2020 | Clean energy VC funding roundup: Nuclear fusion, utility-solar foundations, electric trucks, smart metering | Investors continue to invest and clean energy entrepreneurs continue to innovate — despite global setbacks. Here are four companies that won more than $45 million in funding in recent days — ranging across the cleantech spectrum. Plus $1.9 ... |
| May 29, 2020 | Fusion Energy Company Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $84 Million | Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a company that is commercializing fusion energy, announced it has raised $84 million in A2 funding
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a company that is commercializing fusion energy, announced it has raise... |
| May 26, 2020 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $84M More In Massive Series A | 18 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), an MIT spinoff focused on commercializing fusion energy, announced this morning it has raised $84 million in the second tranche of a Series A round.
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| May 26, 2020 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $84M in A2 Round | Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a startup commercializing fusion energy, today announced it has raised $84 million in A2 funding, bringing the company's total funding to more than $200 million. The A2 round was led by Temasek with partic... |
| May 26, 2020 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $84M in A2 Funding | Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup commercializing fusion energy, raised $84m in A2 funding.
The A2 round, which brought the company’s total funding to more than $200m, was led by Temasek with participation from n... |
| May 26, 2020 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems snags another $84M in Series A2 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the MIT spinoff on a mission to commercialize fusion energy, raised an additional $84 million in an A2 round. It's a follow-on investment to the $115 million Series A round it raised in June last year.
The A2 ro... |
| May 26, 2020 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Nabs $84M A2 Round |
CAMBRIDGE, MA, Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised $84 million in A2 funding.
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| May 26, 2020 | With $84 million in new cash, Commonwealth Fusion is on track for a demonstration fusion reactor by 2025 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems closed on its latest $84 million in new funding two weeks ago. The U.S. was still very much in the lockdown phase and getting a deal done, especially a multimillion dollar investment in a new technology aiming to... |
| Jun 28, 2019 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Closes $115M Series A, Makes Our Inner Sci-Fi Nerds Happy | 10 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
This week a startup focused on fusion power finished closing a $115 million Series A round. The final capital sum includes a few dozen million dollars it was known to have raised previously. The fir... |
| Jun 27, 2019 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $115M in Series A Funding | Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup commercializing fusion energy, raised $115m in Series A funding.
Backers included Future Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Moore Strategic Ventures, Safar Partn... |
| Jun 27, 2019 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Secures $115M Series A |
CAMBRIDGE, MA, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a startup commercializing fusion energy, today announced it has raised $115 million and closed its Series A round.
>> Click here for more funding data on Commonwealth Fusion Systems... |
| Jun 27, 2019 | A Boston startup developing a nuclear fusion reactor just got a roughly $50 million boost | After twenty five years of research, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think that they have finally cracked the code for the commercialization for nuclear fusion reactions.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is the fruit of t... |
| Jun 27, 2019 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $115 Million and Closes Series A Round | Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a startup commercializing fusion energy, today announced it has raised $115 million and closed its Series A round. New participants in the round include Future Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lowercase Capital,... |
| Commonwealth Fusion has raised $2 billion to make energy like the sun and stars — here’s a look inside | |
| Nuclear fusion will not be regulated the same way as nuclear fission — a big win for the fusion industry | The nation’s top regulatory body for nuclear power plants and other nuclear materials, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has officially voted to regulate nuclear fusion differently than fission.
The decision is being cheered by the fusion ... |
| Why the ‘Mother of Dragons’ at SpaceX left her job building rockets to work on nuclear fusion | Darby Dunn worked for a decade at SpaceX where she held a handful of engineering and production roles related to building rockets. In one of those positions, she was unofficially known as the “Mother of Dragons” for her work on the spacecra... |
| Investor Vinod Khosla says focusing on 2030 climate targets is the wrong approach | Vinod Khosla, the founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Khosla Ventures, says 2040 is the more important goal post in combating climate change than 2030.
Khosla, who cofounded computer hardware firm Sun Microsystems in 1982 an... |
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| Safar Partners Invests $100 Million In Commonwealth Fusion Systems | Safar Partners — a seed- to growth-stage venture fund investing in technology companies — announced recently that it is investing $100 million in portfolio company Commonwealth Fusion Systems. These are the details.
Safar Partners — a seed-... |
| What is public purpose technology and why does it matter right now? | Dr. Johannes Lenhard
Sometime last year, in one of my many calls with VC investors, I spoke to someone based in Denmark who had reached out to learn more about my research on VC ethics. He explained his investment thesis in detail as well a... |
| Commonwealth Fusion Systems Signs $15 Million DOE Agreement To Advance Commercial Fusion Energy | DEVENS, Mass., June 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy worth $15 million to meet research and development goals leading to commercial fusion power. The fundin... |
| Microsoft agrees to buy electricity generated from Sam Altman-backed fusion company Helion in 2028 | Microsoft said Wednesday it has signed a power purchase agreement with nuclear fusion startup Helion to buy electricity from it in 2028.
The deal is a vote of confidence for fusion, which has thus far not been commercialized.
Silicon Valley... |
| Fusion gets closer with successful test of new kind of magnet at MIT start-up backed by Bill Gates | Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) said on Wednesday that they completed the successful test of a key technology — a very powerful magnet — on Sunday at 6 a.... |
| Термоядерные стартапы идут в единороги, романтики собирают деньги на ракету. Техдайджест | Александр Носков 4 декабря 2021, 07:49 2021-12-04 Термоядерные стартапы идут в единороги, романтики собирают деньги на ракету. Техдайджест
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| Fusion power is still decades and billions of dollars away, even after this week’s major scientific breakthrough | Tuesday’s announcement of net power gain from a nuclear fusion reaction is a major scientific breakthrough.
At the same time, it will be more than a decade until fusion is generating power for the electricity grid.
Between now and then, the... |
| This 34-year-old’s start-up backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos aims to make nearly unlimited clean energy | After Brandon Sorbom graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 2010, he decided to take the “couple of thousand dollars” he had saved and his credit card (he had 0% interest for a year) and fly to Boston.
Don’t miss: The ... |
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