CONGRATS to Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) on closing their $115M Series A round with Future Ventures (Saenko), Khosla Ventures (Vinod), Lowercase Capital (Sacca) and Breakthrough Energy Ventures (Gates, Bezos and Ma).
From today’s announcement: “Leveraging decades of MIT-led research, CFS will produce first-of-its-kind high temperature superconductor magnets to build smaller and lower-cost fusion power plants. CFS in collaboration with MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center will use these magnets to build SPARC by 2025 and demonstrate net energy gain from fusion for the first time in history. SPARC will pave the way for the first commercially viable fusion power plant called ARC, which will produce fusion power onto the grid.”
“We have been looking for the right clean energy investment opportunity in fusion for the past 20 years,” said Steve Jurvetson, CEO of Future Ventures. “We wanted a company that was ready to make a business of fusion and we have finally found it with Commonwealth Fusion Systems. The hard science from which their approach is based has been proven by this team as well as leaders in the field around the world. With some clever engineering, CFS is ready to harness the power of the solar cycle to change the world and usher in the era of clean baseload energy generation for the betterment of all.” — https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/commonwealth-fusion-systems-raises-115-million-and-closes-series-a-round-to-commercialize-fusion-energy-300875732.html
Maryanna Saenko started a PhD at MIT, birthplace of CFS, and led this investment for Future Ventures. Practical fusion has also been a holy grail for me for many years. It just so happens that the very first investment I ever made in a private company was in a novel nuclear fusion company, back in 1995.
More on the CFS approach: https://www.cfs.energy/technology
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