| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.08.2025 | General Fusion: $22 Million Raised To Advance LM26 Fusion Program | General Fusion has raised $22 million (CAD $ 30 million) in new financing to accelerate the development of its revolutionary LM26 fusion demonstration project and advance its mission to deliver zero-carbon fusion energy. The latest funding ... |
| 28.08.2024 | Energy Disruptors: UNITE 2024 to Feature CEO's From Seven of the Most Funded Clean Tech Companies in Canada | Conference attendees to have rare chance to connect with CEOs who have raised a combined total of $1B+ to commercialize and scale clean technology solutions globally
CALGARY, AB, Aug. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - The future of Canadian industry ... |
| 29.08.2023 | 7 founders explain what fusion power needs to go mainstream | 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.
Fusion power has never had a more solid foundation. Advances in semiconductors, magne... |
| 24.08.2023 | 7 founders and CEOs discuss fusion power’s most pressing challenges | The hype around fusion power is real. Researchers at the National Ignition Facility achieved net-positive controlled nuclear fusion in December 2022, a milestone that’s been decades in the making. Then, earlier this month, they did it again... |
| 11.08.2023 | General Fusion Raises $25M in Series F Funding | General Fusion, a Richmond, BC, Canada-based nuclear fusion development company, raised $25m in Series F funding.
The round was co-led by BDC Capital and GIC, and included new grant funding from the Government of British Columbia.
The compa... |
| 21.06.2023 | With $10T on the line, 6 fusion investors explain why they’re all in | Fusion power could be considered the quintessential venture capital bet: It’s expensive and risky, but the potential rewards are enormous. The world paid $10 trillion for energy last year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA),... |
| 19.01.2023 | Vancouver’s energy future looks cleaner, greener, and carbon-emission free | This article is a collaboration with The Georgia Straight. You can read the other half of this story here.
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The envisioned exterior of General Fusion’s fusion demonstration at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’... |
| 12.01.2023 | General Fusion’s Fusion Energy Demonstration Receives Consent At Ukaea’s Culham Campus | South Oxfordshire District Council Planning Committee approves fusion energy project; construction to start this year
Following the resolution to grant planning permission by the South Oxfordshire District Council Planning Committee, constr... |
| 13.12.2022 | Historic fusion energy achievement will boost Pacific Northwest’s burgeoning startups | The target chamber of LLNL’s National Ignition Facility, where 192 laser beams delivered more than 2 million joules of ultraviolet energy to a tiny fuel capsule to create fusion ignition on Dec. 5, 2022. (NIF Photo)
U.S. physicists have acc... |
| 17.06.2022 | 48 finalists unveiled for Technology Impact Awards | Credit: BC Tech Association
The 2022 Technology Impact Awards (TIAs) are already living up to its theme. Under the header of “ambition,” the BC Tech Association unveiled an enterprising 48 finalists across 12 categories.
Meet the finalists:... |
| 05.12.2021 | 🦄 Meet BC's newest crypto unicorn | Good morning everyone. Welcome to the hundreds of new readers with us this Sunday. You’re invited to join me, the CEO of Visualping and the CTO of Opendoor at the final TechVancouver event of the year. It’s this Wednesday in Yaletown at 6pm... |
| 01.12.2021 | General Fusion closing oversubscribed $130 million transitional financing round | Fueled by a new investor syndicate, Series E is supporting aggressive commercialization
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- General Fusion announced today it is closing an oversubscribed $130 million (USD) Series ... |
| 01.12.2021 | General Fusion closing oversubscribed $130 million transitional financing round | VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- General Fusion announced today it is closing an oversubscribed $130 million (USD) Series E funding round filled by a new syndicate of global investors. This financing, led by Te... |
| 30.11.2021 | General Fusion lands $130M from Bezos and others as fusion energy sector keeps heating up | Artist’s rendering of the Fusion Demonstration Plant that General Fusion is planning to build at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham Campus near London. (General Fusion Image)
The news: The fusion energy field just keeps getting hotter.... |
| 30.11.2021 | General Fusion closing oversubscribed $130 million transitional financing round | VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- General Fusion announced today it is closing an oversubscribed $130 million (USD) Series E funding round filled by a new syndicate of global investors. This financing, led by Te... |
| 20.10.2021 | General Fusion to open 60,000 sq ft HQ near YVR | General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology compression system. (Photo: Provided)
Four months ago fusion energy company General Fusion announced that it would build a demonstration plant near Oxford, UK. Today, the firm revealed a ... |
| 22.07.2021 | ‘Every Little Bit Matters’ Isn’t Enough For Net Zero | LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – FEBRUARY 4: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) and British ... [+] broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough attend the launch of the UK-hosted COP26 UN Climate Summit, which will take place this autum... |
| 19.06.2021 | The Jeff Bezos-backed company General Fusion is building a nuclear fusion plant, which is due to switch on in 2025 | Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
Nuclear fusion company General Fusion is building a demonstration facility in the UK.
Jeff Bezos has been an investor in General Fusion for over a decade.
The new facility will begin c... |
| 19.06.2021 | Jeff Bezos-backed company General Fusion is building a nuclear plant which will switch on in 2025 | Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
Nuclear fusion company General Fusion is building a demonstration facility in the UK.
Jeff Bezos has been an investor in General Fusion for over a decade.
The new facility will begin c... |
| 19.06.2021 | The Jeff Bezos-backed company General Fusion is building a nuclear fusion plant, which is due to switch on in 2025 | Nuclear fusion company General Fusion is building a demonstration facility in the UK.
Jeff Bezos has been an investor in General Fusion for over a decade.
The new facility will begin construction next year, and should be operational by 2025... |
| 17.06.2021 | General Fusion to build its Fusion Demonstration Plant in the UK, at the UKAEA Culham Campus | VANCOUVER, Canada and LONDON, UK, June 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (BST) -- The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and General Fusion have announced an agreement under which General Fusion will build and operate its Fusion Demonstration Pl... |
| 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... |
| 20.01.2021 | Alliance grant for McGill Professor and Canadian fusion energy company | Three-year project funded in part by Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) will help Canadian company demonstrate fusion energy in a commercially relevant environment, paving the way to a limitless source of clean energy
... |
| 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... |
| 26.09.2020 | Amazon Jeff Bezos and Microsoft are betting big on this $10 trillion clean energy breakthrough to provide unlimited energy for the planet | For more than half a century and in a race to zero emissions, researchers and governments around the world have been trying to solve the challenge of nuclear fusion, a nuclear process, where energy is produced by smashing together light ato... |
| 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... |
| 02.02.2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #91 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
The most interesting thing I read this week is a piece in the Globe and Mail by tech reporters Sean Si... |
| 31.01.2020 | GeekWire 200 update reveals trending startups in edtech, consumer tech, B.C. and more | There’s a growing cohort of education tech companies across the Pacific Northwest. A flurry of up-and-coming startups are sprouting up in British Columbia. And while Seattle is an enterprise software town, some of the nation’s leading consu... |
| 17.12.2019 | General Fusion Raises $65 Million To Establish Demonstration Plant | General Fusion announced it raised $65 million in Series E funding led by Singapore-based investment firm Temasek
General Fusion announced it has raised USD$65 million in Series E funding led by Singapore-based investment firm Temasek. The ... |
| 17.12.2019 | Vancouver cleantech company General Fusion raises $85 million CAD Series E | Vancouver-based General Fusion, which is developing what it calls a limitless, clean, emission-free, and cost-competitive alternative for power generation, has announced the close of an $85 million CAD ($65 million USD) Series E round.
Fusi... |
| 16.12.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Monday, December 16, 2019 – Intel, Bluespace.ai, CallMiner, DataRobot, PlayerMaker, General Fusion, and Atrium Sports | Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Monday, December 16, 2019.
Intel buys Israeli AI startup Habana Labs for $2 billion. Intel Corp has bought Israel-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm Habana Labs for ... |
| 16.12.2019 | General Fusion raises $65M Series E to develop commercial fusion energy and enable carbon-free energy future | We last wrote about General Fusion in March of this year when Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Amazon founder and Microsoft made a $127 million investment in fusion energy startup General Fusion. Today, the British Columbia, Canada-based renewable... |
| 06.03.2019 | Top startup news for today, Wednesday, March 6, 2019 | Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Wednesday, March 6.
Mental health app maker startups join forces to go after multibillion-dollar market. The global behavioral and mental health care softwar... |
| 06.03.2019 | Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, and Microsoft are betting big on a $10 trillion energy solution for the planet with $127 million investment in fusion energy startup General Fusion | For more than half a century and in a race to zero emissions, researchers and governments around the world have been trying to solve the challenge of nuclear fusion, a nuclear process, where energy is produced by smashing together light ato... |
| 31.10.2018 | General Fusion raises $49.3 million to develop clean alternative for power generation | The Government of Canada has announced a $49.3 million investment in clean technology company General Fusion.
Launched in 2002, General Fusion is developing fusion energy, which it calls a limitless, clean, emission-free, and cost-competiti... |
| 08.05.2017 | This Vancouver Startup Is Chasing the Dream of Clean, Limitless Energy Forever | This is a series around POWER, a Motherboard 360/VR documentary about nuclear energy. Follow along here.
In the suburbs of Vancouver, a team is working on what they think is humanity's best chance at clean, unlimited power, something we des... |
| 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... |
| 22.05.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 5/22/15 | Oradian, WePay, MuleSoft, Videopixie, OnboardIQ, Mobcrush, Taboola, Lookup, Metabiota, Centro, Fuze
Seed stage
Oradian, a developer of technology platforms for microfinance institutions, raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Cre... |
| 20.05.2015 | General Fusion Completes C$27M Financing | General Fusion, a Burnaby, BC, Canada-based developer of fusion energy, completed a (CAN) $27m financing.
The round, which will be followed by a second closing in late summer 2015, was led by Khazanah Nasional Berhad, with participation exi... |
| 06.05.2011 | General Fusion Raises $19.5M in Series B Funding | General Fusion, a Burnaby, BC, Canada-based utility-scale fusion power company, has completed a US$19.5m Series B funding round.
Investors include Cenovus Energy, through its Environmental Opportunity Fund, Bezos Expeditions, and existing b... |
| 05.05.2011 | Jeff Bezos goes nuclear, backs B.C. startup’s plan to create safe nuclear power | Bezos (Photo via Wikipedia)
What is it with Seattle area billionaires and their love of nuclear power? Earlier this week, Microsoft co-founder touted the benefits of nuclear energy in a talk in New York, promoting his investment in Bellevue... |
| 05.05.2011 | General Fusion Adds $19.5M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
General Fusion, the Burnaby, BC-based developer of nuclear power technology, said today it has raised $19.5 million in a Series B financing to build the first phase of a demon... |
| 24.07.2009 | General Fusion, Developer of Novel Nuclear Fusion Method, Raises $9M in Venture Financing | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
General Fusion, a Burnaby, BC-based company that hopes to generate clean energy from a new form of nuclear fusion, has raised $9 million out of a $12.5 million equity offering... |
| - | General Fusion raises $27 million investment | VANCOUVER, British Columbia—(May 19, 2015)— General Fusion, a world leader in the development of fusion energy, announced today it has completed a $27 million (CAN) financing, putting the company in its strongest financial position since it... |
| - | General Fusion | “General Fusion pursues a fast, efficient, and collaborative path to practical fusion power. We are addressing the urgency and economic reality of fusion energy.” |
