Energy · Garching bei München, Germany · Founded 2022 · Raised $9.2M · Early stage

Gauss Fusion

Addressing this challenge through a system-level approach to stellarator fusion power plants: developing the architecture, critical technologies and industrial capabilities required…

Review notegauss-fusion.com/about: founded 2022 by Dr. Frank H. Laukien (CEO of Bruker). Nuclear Engineering International (Oct 14, 2025): founded 2022 in Garching bei München; EUR 8M ($9.2M) pre-seed in Feb 2023 plus EUR 10M from the German government in 2024. Source ↗

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8#253 · ▼12 in 7d

1 of 8 families

Why now

At least 4 papers and 13 authors list the company as an affiliation in the last 120 days
Research · Sep 12

People

Matteo MoscheniSearch ↗
First author of a paper
Samuel A. LazersonSearch ↗
First author of a paper
Albrecht HerrmannSearch ↗
Paper author
K. RevelSearch ↗
Last author of a paper
Neil MitchellSearch ↗
Last author of a paper
Shin HasegawaSearch ↗
First author of a paper
Adrian Asmund FesslerSearch ↗
Paper author
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
António J. CoelhoSearch ↗
Paper author

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Momentum14

Research

Thesis fit94

× 0.95

Matched on energy, fusion, gigawatt, industrial, plasma

Earliness66

× 0.80

Already visible: funding stage, company age

Team–

× 0.85

8 named people, none from a top lab or company

14 × 0.95 × 0.80 × 0.85 × 0.85 one family only = 8

Why now

People

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