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| 25.02.2025 | The Future of Energy: Hydrogen and Nuclear Power in the Age of AI | The race for energy is on. In the heart of Silicon Valley, a revolution is brewing. Tech giants are scrambling to power their data centers with cleaner, faster energy sources. The stakes are high. The demand for data processing is skyrocket... |
| 24.02.2025 | Top tech companies turn to hydrogen and nuclear energy for AI data centers | Yuval Bachar knows data centers. He’s worked on them for Meta, Microsoft and Cisco, but now, his startup is looking to help Silicon Valley run data centers with lower carbon dioxide emissions.
ECL, Bachar’s startup, builds hydrogen-powered ... |
| 14.02.2025 | Cleantech Funding Off To A Slow Start In 2025 | 0 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
If urgency were the driving motivation of venture funding, you’d expect cleantech would be cleaning up.
However, that’s not happening. In the wake of a record year for global surface temperatures tha... |
| 11.02.2025 | 'I Don't Think He's a Happy Person': Sam Altman Turns Down Elon Musk's Offer to Buy OpenAI as the Billionaires Exchange Personal Jabs on X Altman said Musk was trying to slow down OpenAI's progress wi... | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, 39, made it clear on Tuesday that OpenAI was not for sale following a surprise $97.4 billion offer from Elon Musk on Monday for the company's operating assets.
"Elon tries all sorts of things," Altman told B... |
| 10.02.2025 | To expand commercialized fusion power, SoftBank supports Helion’s $425 M Series F investment | Fusion energy startup Helion announced that it has raised $425 million in a Series F investment round to expand its efforts to commercialize its ground-breaking fusion technology.
In addition to current investors Sam Altman, Mithril Capital... |
| 04.02.2025 | The 10 Biggest Rounds Of January: Infinite Reality Tops Busy Month | 8 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
This is a monthly feature that runs down the month’s top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. Check out November’s biggest rounds here.
The year started strong for huge rounds, as the first month saw a trio... |
| 03.02.2025 | Helion: Fusion Energy Company Raises $425 Million (Series F) At $5.425 Billion Valuation | Fusion energy company Helion announced a $425 million Series F funding round that will be used to scale commercialization efforts for the company’s fusion technology. This oversubscribed and upsized round had participation from new investor... |
| 31.01.2025 | The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: Helion Energy Takes Top Spot In Another Slow Week | 5 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board.
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| 29.01.2025 | Helion's Fusion Future: A $425 Million Bet on Clean Energy | In the heart of Everett, Washington, a revolution is brewing. Helion, a trailblazer in fusion energy, has just secured a staggering $425 million in Series F funding. This infusion of capital elevates the company’s valuation to an impressive... |
| 28.01.2025 | Helion raises $425 million from SoftBank's venture arm, hits $5.4 billion valuation | Helion, a startup working to generate electricity from nuclear fusion, on Tuesday said it has raised $425 million in venture funding from a group of investors including SoftBank Group's Vision Fund 2.
The Everett, Washington-based Helion sa... |
| 28.01.2025 | Fusion Startup Helion Powers Up With $425M Series F | 4 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Fusion startup Helion Energy locked up a $425 million Series F — valuing the company at $5.4 billion — as the company looks to commercialize its fusion technology.
The round included participation fr... |
| 28.01.2025 | Nuclear fusion startup Helion raises $425m from Vision Fund 2 at $5.4b valuation | Helion, a startup working to generate electricity from nuclear fusion, on Tuesday said it has raised $425 million in venture funding from a group of investors including SoftBank Group’s Vision Fund 2. |
| 28.01.2025 | Helion Raises $425M in Series F Funding | Helion, an Everett, WA-based fusion energy company, raised $425M in Series F funding, at $5.425 Billion valuation.
The round saw participation from new investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and a major un... |
| 28.01.2025 | Fusion power startup Helion raises $425M in funding
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| 17.01.2025 | Технологическая сингулярность | Представьте себе мир на грани глубокой трансформации, движимый беспрецедентными инновациями, готовыми произвести революцию во всех аспектах общества. Этот сдвиг, приближающийся к технологической сингулярности, несёт огромную ответственность... |
| 26.09.2024 | Reuters: OpenAI станет коммерческой организацией, её глава Сэм Альтман получит долю в компании | Слева направо: Мира Мурати, Сэм Альтман, Грег Брокман, Илья Суцкевер. С изображения вырезаны все, кроме Альтмана. @ChrisJBakke
Согласно сообщению Reuters, компания OpenAI, создатель ChatGPT, планирует реструктуризацию своего основного бизне... |
| 29.07.2024 | Marathon Fusion: $5.9 Million Closed To Develop Fuel Processing Technology For The Fusion Industry | Marathon Fusion, a company developing fuel processing technology for the fusion industry, announced a fundraising effort led by 1517 Fund and Anglo American, with participation from Übermorgen Ventures, Shared Future Fund, Malcolm Handley, ... |
| 19.07.2024 | Без технологии компании Marathon будущие термоядерные электростанции, возможно, никогда не заработают | Сторонники ядерного синтеза давно обещают создать практически безграничную энергию на Земле, используя ту же реакцию, которая питает Солнце, сообщает TechCrunch. Сегодня самое большое препятствие для термоядерного синтеза заключается в том,... |
| 12.04.2024 | Sam Altman's plans for AI's next act keep getting more complex | AI Sam Altman's plans for AI's next act keep getting more complex
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| 11.04.2024 | Proxima Fusion: A Stellar Rise in the Nuclear Fusion Race | In the competitive world of nuclear fusion startups, Proxima Fusion has emerged as a rising star, securing a hefty $21 million in funding to propel its innovative 'stellarator' approach to fusion energy. While the fusion industry has seen i... |
| 09.04.2024 | Proxima Fusion raises $21M to build on its ‘stellarator’ approach to nuclear fusion | Venture capitalists’ appetite for fusion startups has been up and down in the last few years. For instance, the Fusion Industry Association found that while nuclear fusion companies had attracted over $6 billion in investment in 2023, $1.4 ... |
| 07.03.2024 | The breathtaking scope of Sam Altman's future AI empire | This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in.
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| 28.12.2023 | Energy startup Oklo is preparing to go public via Sam Altman's SPAC. Here's how it plans to scale nuclear power. | Startups Energy startup Oklo is preparing to go public via Sam Altman's SPAC. Here's how it plans to scale nuclear power.
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| 27.11.2023 | Climate Action 30 | Table of Contents
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| 28.07.2023 | How Sam Altman's $850 million SPAC could help turn nuclear power into a mainstream energy source
Nuclear and AI can go hand-in-hand
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| 03.06.2023 | A Sam Altman-backed startup is betting it can crack the code on fusion energy. Here's how it's trying to bring that to the masses by 2028. | Helion Energy wants to produce large amounts of electricity through fusion by 2028.
Microsoft has agreed to buy 50 megawatts of electricity from Helion, which can power 40,000 homes.
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| 03.06.2023 | A Sam Altman-backed startup is betting it can crack the code on fusion energy. Here's how it's trying to bring that to the masses by 2028. | Helion’s co-founders: Chris Pihl, chief technology officer (left), David Kirtley, chief executive officer (middle), and George Votroubek, director of research (right). Helion Energy
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| 15.05.2023 | Microsoft только что сделала огромную ставку на термоядерный синтез | Ученые десятилетиями мечтали о ядерном синтезе. Который даст неограниченную энергию и не будет угрожать радиацией. Microsoft считает, что технология почти готова. И теперь ставит на это миллиарды. Предыдущая большая ставка компании — на Ope... |
| 12.05.2023 | Microsoft says commercial use of fusion-produced energy will be available within 5 years as part of new deal with Sam Altman-backed Helion | Microsoft and fusion energy company Helion announced a first-of-its-kind contract Wednesday.
Microsoft became the first comapny to commit to buying electricity produced entirely from fusion by 2028.
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| 12.05.2023 | Microsoft bets that a fusion power plant from Helion Energy will be operating this decade | Polaris is a prototype fusion reactor from Helion Energy. The startup announced a deal with Microsoft to provide the tech giant with electricity produced from fusion. Helion
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| 11.05.2023 | Microsoft says commercial use of fusion-produced energy will be available within 5 years as part of new deal with Sam Altman-backed Helion | Polaris, a prototype fusion reactor from Helion, which recently announced a deal with Microsoft to provide the tech giant with electricity produced from fusion. Helion
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| 10.05.2023 | Microsoft Is All-In On Fusion Power | Microsoft is all-in on fusion power, with plans to begin purchasing fusion-generated power as early as 2028.
Nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy generation, holding the promise of unlimited, environmentally-friendly, clean energy. Un... |
| 10.05.2023 | Helion Energy will provide Microsoft with fusion power starting in 2028 | 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 commercial scale in November 2021. Today, it... |
| 19.02.2023 | ChatGPT creator Sam Altman has invested in dozens of companies over the years, from Elon Musk's Neuralink to Reddit | Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has invested in scores of companies over the years. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has invested in lots of tech and energy companies.
He was the lead investor in rounds for companies like Reddit,... |
| 16.01.2023 | A peek into the future as Sam Altman sees it | Late last week, in a rare sit-down before a small audience, this editor spent an hour with Sam Altman, the former president of Y Combinator and, since 2019, the CEO of OpenAI, the company he famously co-founded with Elon Musk and numerous o... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 13.01.2022 | Meet the unicorns: A look at the Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion | (GeekWire Photo Illustration / Photo by Kevin Lisota)
Editor’s note: This post has been updated to add startups that were not initially included in the list. Icertis’ valuation was also updated.
Another day, another unicorn spotting.
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| 13.01.2022 | Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion | (GeekWire Photo Illustration / Photo by Kevin Lisota)
Another day, another unicorn spotting.
These once elusive creatures of the corporate world — privately-held companies valued at a $1 billion or more — certainly are plentiful these days.... |
| 09.11.2021 | Helion Energy Raises $500 Million On The Fusion Power Of Stars | Fusion is the process of building up simple atoms into larger more complex ones. It releases a lot ... [+] of energy, and occurs every day in the sun as well as every other star in the Universe. The trick for humans is to harness it on Eart... |
| 09.11.2021 | Helion Energy Raises $500M in Series E Funding | Helion Energy, an Everett, WA-based clean energy company committed to creating a new era of zero-carbon electricity from fusion, closed a $500m Series E funding.
The round, which includes the opportunity for an additional $1.7 billion dolla... |
| 05.11.2021 | U.S. zero-carbon fusion energy startup Helion raises $500 mln | November 5, 202111:08 AM UTCLast Updated ago
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| 05.11.2021 | U.S. zero-carbon fusion energy startup Helion raises $500 million | By Jane Lanhee Lee
(Reuters) - Helion Energy, a fusion energy tech startup, on Friday said it raised $500 million to build a net positive electrical generator, one that creates more power than it uses.
The latest round values the company at... |
| 05.11.2021 | Helion secures $2.2B to commercialize fusion energy | Helion Energy, a clean energy company committed to creating a new era of plentiful, zero-carbon electricity from fusion, today announced the close of its $0.5 billion Series E, with an additional $1.7 billion of commitments tied to specific... |
| 05.11.2021 | Helion Energy will use $500M Series E to power up its fusion energy efforts | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for November 5, 2021! We made it, everyone, happy Friday. Don’t forget to take off in the direction of our upcoming Space event before we reach exit velocity and leave you behind! And have a relaxed weekend... |
| 05.11.2021 | Fusion energy tech startup Helion raises $0.5 billion to use fusion energy to deliver clean, zero-carbon electricity | For more than half a century, researchers and governments around the world in a race to zero emissions have been trying to solve the challenge of nuclear fusion, a nuclear process, where energy is produced by smashing together light atoms. ... |
| 05.11.2021 | As interest in fusion energy ignites, Helion lands $500M from OpenAI CEO, Facebook co-founder | Helion co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Chris Pihl (left) and founder and CEO David Kirtley at their facility in Redmond, Wash., where the company was founded in 2013. Helion’s headquarters more recently moved to nearby Everett. The ... |
| 23.10.2018 | Frontier Carbon Removal Technologies | We’re excited to announce our new and expanded request for startups and nonprofits focusing on frontier technologies to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Read the RFS here.
Climate change is one of the biggest problems we face as humans a... |
| 03.04.2017 | Google’s Project Loon head is getting into nuclear power | Google X’s raison d’être is embracing far-out ideas, so it’s no surprise, really that former director Mike Cassidy is wading into the decidedly choppy and always controversial waters of nuclear energy.
Cassidy, whose most recent tenure at G... |
| 20.02.2017 | 2017 YC Annual Letter | Dear YC Community:
In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual letter to the YC community with an update on our progress.
Our mission is to enable the most innovation of any company in the world in order to... |
| 29.09.2016 | Hard Tech Startups | Some people think YC only funds straightforward software startups. That’s definitely not the case — YC’s largest exit to date is a self-driving car company, Cruise Automation, and we’ve funded many other hard technology companies like Gingk... |
| 12.09.2014 | Y Combinator Wants You (To Solve Big Problems) | In its last Demo Day, Y Combinator showcased startups that are seeking to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. As in, nuclear energy, health, and quantum computing–all things that are (arguably) more important than how to get food de... |
| 21.08.2014 | How to Fund an Atomic Startup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Within the course of two weeks, three nuclear power startups said they received funding from venture investors—a remarkable occurrence given the prevailing wisdom that capital... |
| 18.08.2014 | Helion Energy Raises $1.5M in Funding | Helion Energy, a Redmond, Wash.-based nuclear fusion startup, raised $1.5m in funding.
Backers included Mithril Capital Management and Y Combinator.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to develop its technology and expand opera... |
| 14.08.2014 | Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup | Building a nuclear fusion reactor that can generate more energy than is put in to make it work is one of the biggest challenges facing engineers today. Like quantum computing, decades of research have mostly resulted in proofs of concept, n... |
| 14.08.2014 | Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion (YC S14), A Nuclear Fusion Startup | Building a nuclear fusion reactor that can generate more energy than is put in to make it work is one of the biggest challenges facing engineers today. Like quantum computing, decades of research have mostly resulted in proofs of concept, n... |
| 27.11.2013 | Helion Energy’s futuristic reactor could make carbon-free power by 2019 | David Kirtley
Dr. David Kirtley comes across as a smart, practical guy with a head for business. That creates some cognitive dissonance when he explains that his Redmond startup is developing fusion energy.
You’ve heard about fusion energy,... |
| - | YC and Hard Tech Startups | Some people think YC only funds straightforward software startups. That’s definitely not the case — YC’s largest exit to date is a self-driving car company, Cruise Automation, and we’ve funded many other hard technology companies like Gingk... |
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| - | What it feels like to visit a fusion company lab on a day when wildfire smoke cloaks the horizon | Visiting Helion Energy’s enormous workspace and lab in Everett, Wash., pulled the idea of fusion out of the completely fantastical and into the potentially real for me.
I happened to visit on a day when the air quality was so bad from nearb... |
| - | Why billionaire Dustin Moskovitz keeps buying up shares of his software company Asana | Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz, who made billions from co-founding Facebook, has long been concerned about the risks of runaway artificial intelligence.
Moskovitz has been snapping up shares of Asana and is now majority owner, with plans to giv... |
| - | Sam Altman’s nuclear energy company Oklo plunges 54% in NYSE debut | Sam Altman, best known as the CEO of OpenAI, is also chairman of a nuclear power company called Oklo, which has just gone public through a special purpose acquisition company.
Oklo merged with AltC Acquisition Corp., Altman’s SPAC, and is n... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Nuclear fusion start-up Helion scores $375 million investment from Open AI CEO Sam Altman | The fusion start-up Helion Energy announced a $500 million funding round on Friday.
The round was lead by Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman, who put $375 million into Helion, his largest investment in a start-up ever.
Helion Energy plans t... |
