27 Best Nuclear Technology Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Nuclear Technology Startups

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 27 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $5.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $194.4m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Helion Energy logo

Helion Energy

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 logo

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

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 logo

Avalanche Energy Designs

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 logo

First Light Fusion

First Light Fusion is a clean energy producer founded in 2011 by Nicholas Hawker.

7

Funding Rounds

$185.0m

Money raised

LeadCold logo

LeadCold

LeadCold is a company developing lead-cooled small nuclear reactor technology founded in 2013 by Janne Wallenius, Jesper Ejenstam and Peter Szakalos.

2

Funding Rounds

$21.1m

Money raised

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Terrestrial Energy

Terrestrial Energy is developing molten salt nuclear reactors.

5

Funding Rounds

$40.7m

Money raised

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Tokamak Energy

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

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Renaissance Fusion

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

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Zap Energy

Zap Energy is developing compact fusion power that doesn't require magnets or lasers.

7

Funding Rounds

$332.8m

Money raised

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HelicitySpace

HelicitySpace is a fusion propulsion and power company, developing technology for spacecraft.

1

Funding Rounds

$150.0k

Money raised

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Gen4 Energy

A company that was developing an advanced technology mini nuclear reactor, based on intellectual property developed by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It was located in Denver, Colorado.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.9m

Money raised

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Moltex Energy

A nuclear energy company making a stable salt reactor.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

Marvel Fusion logo

Marvel Fusion

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

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Transatomic Power

A nuclear reactor design company developing Waste-Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor. The company ceased operations in September 2018.

1

Funding Rounds

$763.0k

Money raised

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Horne Technologies

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

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Fusion Energy Solutions

A nuclear fusion research company based in Tempe, Arizona.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Arizona Public Service

Arizona Public Service is an electric utility company in Arizona founded in 1886.

1

Funding Rounds

$70.5m

Money raised

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TAE Technologies, Inc.

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

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Avid Radiopharmaceuticals

A company that develops molecular imaging agents to detect and monitor chronic human diseases

4

Funding Rounds

$69.9m

Money raised

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Cosmo Tech

Software platform and professional services for complex systems modeling and simulation, targeting in particular energy networks and urban planning applications.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Radiant

Radiant is an El Segundo, California-based clean energy company focused on the development of climate-friendly nuclear microreactors.

2

Funding Rounds

$110.0m

Money raised

Ionic Materials logo

Ionic Materials

Ionic Materials is a battery manufacturing company.

1

Funding Rounds

$65.0m

Money raised

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Blue Earth Diagnostics Limited

Blue Earth Diagnostics Limited is an Oxford-based developer and supplier of molecular imaging agents.

1

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

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Siteflow

Cloud-based software for managing field services in complex industries like nuclear and oil & gas.

3

Funding Rounds

$12.7m

Money raised

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Northstar Medical Radioisotopes, Llc

Northstar Medical Radioisotopes, Llc is a Madison, Wisconsin-based company developing products and technologies for medical diagnostics founded in 2006.

3

Funding Rounds

$80.5m

Money raised

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Endev

Pioneering cleantech company in area of cost-effective renewable energy production and nutrient recycling from wet biomass.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.7m

Money raised

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Copenhagen Atomics

A company developing nuclear reactors with molten salt as coolant and thorium as fuel.

1

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised