Helion’s Polaris device hit 150 million degrees C recently, a milestone that nudges the company toward its commercial power plant that will sell electricity to Microsoft.
Inertia Enterprises will use the Series A investment to build one of the world’s most powerful lasers, a key part of its power plant design.
The fusion power startup recently completed some experiments at Sandia National Laboratory’s Z Machine and shared the results exclusively with TechCrunch.
Avalanche has raised $29 million in fresh funding to pursue its unique approach to fusion power, which can currently fit on a table.
General Fusion’s merger with an acquisition company will net the company over $300 million. Just last year, the company ran into trouble raising money from other investors.
Type One Energy has raised more than $160 million from investors to date. The new funding will help the company further refine its stellarator technology.
The fusion power frontrunner said that construction on its Sparc reactor was proceeding as planned. Meanwhile, it’s building a digital twin to help dial it in.
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.