About Zap

Fusion power. No magnets required.

Zap Energy is building a seriously cheap, compact, scalable fusion energy technology with potentially the shortest path to commercially viable fusion and orders of magnitude less capital than traditional approaches.

This breakthrough technology confines and compresses plasma without costly and complex magnetic coils.

We have been generating verified fusion plasmas continuously since 2018 and are now targeting scientific energy breakeven on our FuZE-Q platform.

Who We Are

Zap currently has over one hundred team members based in three facilities north of Seattle.
Zap Energy is backed by leading financial and strategic investors, including Addition, BAM Elevate, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, DCVC, Emerson Collective, Energy Impact Partners (EIP), Leitmotif, Lowercarbon Capital, Mizuho Financial Group, Plynth Energy, Shell Ventures, Soros Fund Management LLC, Valor Equity Partners and Xplor Ventures.
Addition
BAM Elevate
BEV
Chevron
DCVC
Emerson Collective
EIP
Leitmotif
LCC
Mizuho
Shell
Soros Fund Management
Valor
Xplor Ventures

Board

Benj Conway
President & Co-founder
Brian A. Nelson
Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder
Uri Shumlak
Chief Science Officer & Co-founder
Sir Frank Chapman
Independent Director
Wayne Laufer
Shareholder Director
Jasmin Staiblin
Independent Director
Aaron Schildkrout
Investor Director
Clay Dumas
Investor Director