Cambridge Heavy Industries
Cambridge Heavy Industries is an MIT spinout building benchtop, modular laser-driven (fast-ignition inertial confinement) fusion devices capable of 50-80 shots per day.
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Cambridge Heavy Industries is an MIT spinout building benchtop, modular laser-driven (fast-ignition inertial confinement) fusion devices capable of 50-80 shots per day. It initially targets tritium and other high-value isotope production for the fusion fuel supply chain, with commercial fusion power as the long-term goal; experimental data feeds AI-driven simulations to optimize device design.
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Investor· 6
Founders / team· 4
Funding history
- 2026-10-13Seed$6M
Investors · Azolla Ventures, Overlay, Mass Clean Energy Center, Neta Foundation, Rothrock family, P3ASource · esgtoday.com ↗
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Cambridge Heavy Industries is an MIT spinout building benchtop, modular laser-driven (fast-ignition inertial confinement) fusion devices capable of 50-80 shots per day. It initially targets tritium and other high-value isotope production for the fusion fuel supply chain, with commercial fusion power as the long-term goal; experimental data feeds AI-driven simulations to optimize device design.
Seed · $6M · 2026-10
$6M
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