Gates, Doerr Invest in Nuclear Fusion Start-Up as Part of $1.8 Billion Injection
- Bill Gates joins backers of fusion sector’s biggest financing
- ‘World is ready to make big investments’ in fusion, CEO says
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems said it raised $1.8 billion from investors including billionaire Bill Gates and venture capitalist John Doerr in the fusion industry’s largest financing deal.
Tiger Global Management led the Series B funding round, attracting new backers that also included Marc Benioff’s Time Ventures and Emerson Collective, CFS said in a statement Wednesday. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company will use the money to build and operate a demonstration system and to begin construction on a commercial fusion reactor that may be complete in the early 2030s.