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TAE Technologies raises $150 million in latest funding round
TAE Technologies has raised more than $150 million in its latest funding round, exceeding the company’s initial target for the round. Chevron, Google and NEA participated, among other new and existing investors.
TAE Technologies Delivers Fusion Breakthrough that Dramatically Reduces Cost of a Future Power Plant
Experimental results published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications prove TAE’s streamlined approach to form and optimize plasma in its Norm machine increases efficiency, significantly reduces complexity and cost, and accelerates the company’s path to net energy and commercial fusion power.
Occidental Low Carbon Ventures and TAE Technologies Explore Fusion Energy for Direct Air Capture Facilities
Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV) and TAE Technologies signed a memorandum to explore using TAE’s fusion technology for emissions-free power and heat in Direct Air Capture (DAC) facilities. The partnership aims to integrate fusion energy with Occidental’s clean energy sources for DAC operations.
First measurements of hydrogen-boron fusion in a magnetically confined fusion plasma
As fusion developers around the world race to commercialize fusion energy, TAE Technologies has pioneered the pursuit of the cleanest and most economical path to providing electricity with hydrogen-boron (also known as p-B11 or p11B), an abundant, environmentally sound fuel. Today the company is announcing, in collaboration with Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), a noteworthy research advancement: the first-ever hydrogen-boron fusion experiments in a magnetically confined fusion plasma.
September 15, 2025
Congratulations to Senior Scientist Roelof Groenewald, Science Fellow Dan Barnes and the rest of the TAE team on winning a 2025 INFUSE Award!
This @U.S. Department of Energy research grant will support TAE’s work with a new algorithm that can perform higher fidelity simulations of plasma behavior — capturing crucial, previously unseen details that will advance our development of a cost-effective fusion machine.
The algorithm is an upgraded Darwin model, enhanced by TAE Science Fellow Dan Barnes to run faster and in 3D. TAE will partner with @Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to implement this new approach into the open-source code, WarpX, and use it to simulate plasma performance in our current machine.
As a company founded out of @UC Irvine, we’re proud to continue our tradition of intentional public-private partnership to deliver the cleanest and safest commercial fusion power. Thank you to the DOE for investing in the future of fusion, and thank you to our LBNL colleagues for their collaboration!
Want to learn more about TAE’s advanced simulations? Add these “Good Clean Energy” episodes to your podcast playlist:
– Proving FRC fusion stability at scale, with Senior Scientist Roelof Groenewald
September 2, 2025
TAE Senior Scientist Roelof Groenewald talks with “Good Clean Energy” as his team’s new research upends one of the biggest FRC myths in fusion science. Listen here.
Looking for more? Chief Growth Officer and “Good Clean Energy” host Jim McNiel explores what this research reveals about persistence on the path to commercial fusion power: on LinkedIn
June 2, 2025
Commercial fusion demands persistence, and the right partners. We’re proud to say we have both as Google renews its commitment to TAE.
For more than 10 years, Google and TAE have worked together to advance fusion science with cutting-edge machine learning.
The collaboration has been instrumental to our scientific progress, including our most recent breakthrough: A simplified, first-of-its-kind fusion machine called “Norm” that reduces the complexity and cost of a future fusion power plant.
We’re building fusion that’s safe, practical and engineered to scale for the world’s energy demands. With partners like Google, we’re getting there faster.
https://tae.com/tae-technologies-raises-150-million-in-latest-funding-round
May 15, 2025
What makes TAE’s approach to commercial fusion so unique?
It starts with a specific fusion machine design called the Field-Reversed Configuration – a powerfully efficient method that TAE has advanced with our suite of original technologies.
But that’s not all. Listen to our “Good Clean Energy” interview with TAE CEO Michl Binderbauer to hear more about the advantages of our fusion technology and how we’ll use it to deliver commercial fusion power:
May 8, 2025
We were delighted to host UK Minister for Investment Poppy Gustafsson and HM Trade Commissioner Oliver Christian at our California headquarters for a tour of our first-of-its-kind fusion reactor prototype, Norm, and our fusion-enabled technologies.
Whether it’s with our hydrogen-boron fusion development; our transformative cancer therapy at TAE Life Sciences; or our more intelligent power management systems at TAE Power Solutions, we’re committed to advancing the frontiers of science for humanity’s benefit around the world. We’re thrilled to have collaborators in the UK and beyond as fellow innovators building a cleaner, healthier and brighter future for all.
A nuclear fusion breakthrough may be closer than you think
Scientists dreaming of fusion are no longer toiling in the shadows. They are being courted by governors, billionaires and tech behemoths eager to get in on the ground floor of what they see as a transformative, carbon-free fusion economy. TAE, for example, is so closely collaborating with Google on its work that the Silicon Valley tech giant has a virtual control room on its campus enabling it to engage with the fusion firm’s experiments.
Why Big Tech is investing billions in fusion
Scientists dreaming of fusion are no longer toiling in the shadows. They are being courted by governors, billionaires and tech behemoths eager to get in on the ground floor of what they see as a transformative, carbon-free fusion economy. TAE, for example, is so closely collaborating with Google on its work that the Silicon Valley tech giant has a virtual control room on its campus enabling it to engage with the fusion firm’s experiments.
Birthing a Star to Save a Planet
TAE’s relationship with UC Irvine has been a critical cornerstone of the company’s development. From the earliest days, the university provided the company with credibility, resources, and an innovative ecosystem that enabled the company’s growth.
Google places another fusion power bet on TAE Technologies
Since 2014, Google computer scientists have worked with engineers at TAE to use machine learning (a form of AI) to find the ideal settings for a fusion device.
Exclusive: Fusion energy developer TAE raises $150 million
The company is working closely with Google, which is seeking advanced energy sources to power its hyperscale data centers.
TAE Technologies raises $150 million in latest funding round
TAE Technologies has raised more than $150 million in its latest funding round, exceeding the company’s initial target for the round. Chevron, Google and NEA participated, among other new and existing investors.
TAE Technologies Delivers Fusion Breakthrough that Dramatically Reduces Cost of a Future Power Plant
Experimental results published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications prove TAE’s streamlined approach to form and optimize plasma in its Norm machine increases efficiency, significantly reduces complexity and cost, and accelerates the company’s path to net energy and commercial fusion power.
Occidental Low Carbon Ventures and TAE Technologies Explore Fusion Energy for Direct Air Capture Facilities
Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV) and TAE Technologies signed a memorandum to explore using TAE’s fusion technology for emissions-free power and heat in Direct Air Capture (DAC) facilities. The partnership aims to integrate fusion energy with Occidental’s clean energy sources for DAC operations.
TAE Life Sciences Earns Oncology Innovation of the Year Award
Earning the BioTech Breakthrough Award for Oncology Innovation of the Year validates the progress TAE Life Sciences has made in readying its Alphabeam BNCT system for clinical trials worldwide
Leading fusion innovator TAE Technologies applauds North Carolina’s enactment of cutting-edge clean energy legislation
North Carolina has enacted landmark energy legislation that recognizes fusion technology’s safety and environmental benefits. Senate Bill 678 demonstrates the state’s commitment to investing in fusion as a new clean electricity source that can be an important part of the state’s energy mix.