| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.09.2024 | 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... |
| 01.05.2024 | 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... |
| 04.03.2024 | 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... |
| 14.12.2023 | Термоядерная энергетика, токамак и ITER | Иллюстрация с сайта проекта ITER / www.iter.org
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| 18.04.2023 | 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... |
| 12.04.2023 | 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,... |
| 13.02.2023 | 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 ... |
| 19.12.2022 | 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... |
| 02.10.2022 | 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... |
| 17.08.2022 | 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... |
| 10.05.2022 | 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... |
| 17.03.2022 | 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... |
| 23.02.2022 | 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... |
| 18.01.2022 | 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... |
| 01.12.2021 | 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... |
| 01.12.2021 | 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... |
| 01.12.2021 | 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... |
| 22.04.2021 | 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 ... |
| 08.04.2021 | 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... |
| 13.02.2021 | 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 ... |
| 25.01.2021 | 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 |
| 14.01.2021 | 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... |
| 31.08.2020 | 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... |
| 25.08.2020 | 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 ... |
| 29.05.2020 | 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... |
| 26.05.2020 | 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... |
| 26.05.2020 | Commonwealth Fusion Systems Nabs $84M A2 Round |
CAMBRIDGE, MA, Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised $84 million in A2 funding.
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| 26.05.2020 | 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... |
| 26.05.2020 | 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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| 26.05.2020 | 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... |
| 26.05.2020 | 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... |
| 28.06.2019 | 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... |
| 27.06.2019 | 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... |
| 27.06.2019 | 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... |
| 27.06.2019 | 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,... |
| 27.06.2019 | 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... |
| - | 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
Каждую неделю Александр Носков собирает новости технологий, видео и ссылки на полезные статьи.
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| - | 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.... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | Commonwealth Fusion has raised $2 billion to make energy like the sun and stars — here’s a look inside | |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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-... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
