We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.
There are 13 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $4.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $363.0m.
Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.
Helion Energy is a fusion power company aiming to build the world's first fusion power plant.
6
Funding Rounds
$577.8m
Money raised
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research and development company developing fusion power systems based on ARC tokamak reactors.
5
Funding Rounds
$2.1b
Money raised
Avalanche Energy Designs is an American start-up company designing, testing, and building micro-fusion reactors.
2
Funding Rounds
$5.0m
Money raised
First Light Fusion is a clean energy producer founded in 2011 by Nicholas Hawker.
7
Funding Rounds
$185.0m
Money raised
Tokamak Energy is a fusion energy producer founded in 2009 by Alan Sykes, David Kingham and Mikhail Gryaznevich.
7
Funding Rounds
$172.1m
Money raised
Nuclear fusion start-up in Europe researching high-temperature superconductors to simplify the construction of Stellarator devices as well as other applications in medical imaging.
1
Funding Rounds
$16.0m
Money raised
Zap Energy is developing compact fusion power that doesn't require magnets or lasers.
7
Funding Rounds
$332.8m
Money raised
HelicitySpace is a fusion propulsion and power company, developing technology for spacecraft.
1
Funding Rounds
$150.0k
Money raised
A company developing its own petawatt class and high energy laser system coupled with a sophisticated target physics infrastructure exclusively dedicated to commercial "neutron-lean" fusion energy.
2
Funding Rounds
$39.0m
Money raised
Company that has developed and operates the world's first continuous-operation enabled, superconducting, high-beta style fusion research device.
1
Funding Rounds
$3.1m
Money raised
A nuclear fusion research company based in Tempe, Arizona.
1
Funding Rounds
$3.0m
Money raised
TAE Technologies, Inc., formerly known as Tri Alpha Energy, is a California-based renewable energy company focused on developing commercial fusion energy.
11
Funding Rounds
$1.2b
Money raised
1
Funding Rounds
$15.0m
Money raised