“Fusion is the democratization of energy,” says Zap CSO and Co-Founder Uri Shumlak. “If you have access to water, you have all the fusion fuel you need to power your country. It would completely change the way we think about energy.
Zap Energy once again made TIME and Statista's annual list of America’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2025, as well as its first global list.
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Alex Wilhelm from This Week in Startups interviews Zap Energy CEO Benj Conway, who explains how their breakthrough fusion power technology could provide unlimited, clean energy to fuel AI and beyond.
To meet target, Century platform produced plasmas in liquid metal environment for three hours without failure
Snohomish County has become a center for green energy companies, including fusion power companies Zap Energy and Helion, electric aircraft maker Eviation, hydrogen-electric aircraft maker ZeroAvia, marine battery maker Echandia, and small-scale nuclear reactor company TerraPower.
Zap Cofounder and Chief Scientist Uri Shumlak appeared on the GeekWire Podcast in association with being selected as one of the Pacific Northwest's 2024 "Uncommon Thinkers."
Zap Energy appears on TechCrunch's list of startups that stood out in 2024, the only fusion energy company to make the list.
The New York Times features Zap Energy as one of the leading companies working to commercialize fusion energy - the clean, potentially limitless source that could end mankind’s power woes.
Zap Chief Scientist Uri Shumlak is featured as part of a series profiling five of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change in the world.
Inc. covers Zap's Century and Series D announcement, noting that comes as power-hungry AI tech is also quickly advancing.
Fusion company Zap Energy today shared news on progress with its power plant system demo and gave details on the investors of its $130 million round.
After keeping Century under wraps for several months, the startup gave TechCrunch a peek under the hood, sharing exclusive details about its operation and what it hopes to learn by using it.
Century, a test platform for liquid metals and other key fusion energy technologies, and total funding that now surpasses $330M advance Zap’s compact fusion systems.
Mizuho Financial Group has invested in U.S.-based Zap Energy, becoming the first Japanese bank to take a stake in an overseas company pursing a commercial breakthrough in fusion energy.
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Zap Energy recently closed a $130 million funding round, bringing the total to $327 million, according to PitchBook. Only four fusion startups have raised more.
New UAE energy fund Plynth Energy has selected Zap for an early investment
Everett, Wash.-based Zap is racing to generate power by smashing together light atoms that release energy when they fuse — essentially the same reactions that energize the sun and stars.
Head of FuZE-Q Physics Derek Sutherland visits the Physics World Weekly podcast to talk about fusion and Zap's approach.
GeekWire covers a visit to Zap Energy by Washington Governor Jay Inslee.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have collaborated with Zap Energy in Everett, Washington, to measured plasma conditions on Z-pinch fusion experiments on the private-sector fusion company’s Fusion Z-pinch Experiment (FuZE) device.
Zap Energy's fusion concept has now joined the “rarefied ranks” of technologies that have generated thermal fusion plasma with electron temperatures hotter than 10 million degrees Celsius.
A blog post by ARPA-E describes Zap's achievement in exceeding 1 keV plasma electron temperatures in a sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch device.
New publication reports record electron temperatures for a small-scale, sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch fusion device.
Washington’s HB 1924 formally integrates fusion into state clean energy laws.
While the reality of affordable fusion energy is still an atom-smashing twinkle in physicists’ eyes, the state of Washington is moving ahead with plans to support the nascent commercial fusion sector.
Zap Energy aims to advance fusion technology toward a viable commercial product on a timescale that matters.
For decades, government scientists have toiled away trying to make nuclear fusion work. NPR visits Zap and Helion to consider whether commercial companies could sprint to the finish.
The Seattle region is solidifying its place as a global leader in the race for fusion energy, with five major companies looking to crack the code on the clean, sustainable power source.
The nuclear fusion sector is hot. Maybe not 100 million degrees Celsius — which is the sort of mind-blowing temperature needed to make this futuristic power source possible — but the industry is sizzling.
Research in fusion energy has made significant progress over the past decade. So, are we getting close to practical fusion energy? Zap and two other private fusion companies weigh in.
Fusion has excited scientists for decades with its potential to produce abundant carbon-free energy. In the Pacific Northwest, Zap Energy is hoping to win the race to develop the technology that finally makes that power available to consumers.
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) collaborated with UCSD to design, assemble, and field a portable optical Thomson scattering diagnostic system for gold-standard fusion measurements at Zap Energy.
Investors in fusion discuss why they believe the industry is gaining momentum toward commercial energy generation.
Zap is one of two so-called "alternative fusion" companies based in Washington that IEEE Spectrum says "epitomize a new confidence that fusion power is now a solvable engineering challenge rather than an eternally elusive scientific puzzle."
Investors in fusion discuss why they believe the industry is gaining momentum toward commercial energy generation.
The Puget Sound Business Journal reports on Zap Energy's purchase of assets from former Italian capacitor manufacturer ICAR.
The purchase of the liquidated assets of global capacitor manufacturer ICAR strengthens Zap’s engineering platform for advanced power supplies, a vital component in its repetitively-pulsed fusion energy technologies.
A new paper lays out scientific methods for measuring and calculating Q in a sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch.
Zap Energy and seven other fusion ventures were selected for the Department of Energy's Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program.
Zap Energy's inclusion in the Department of Energy’s Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program is a 'Vote of confidence,' at the national level, Zap Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Uri Shumlak told GeekWire.
The DOE’s Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program aims to ‘help bring fusion toward technical and commercial viability.’
Zap Energy's study of a fusion pilot plant in Centralia is included in the clean energy options considered at the site of a coal power station due to close in 2025.
Zap Energy has been nominated for GeekWire's 2023 sustainable innovation of the year.
Bloomberg’s 2073 view of a fusion future, looking back at today's companies, including Zap Energy.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has officially announced its decision to develop fusion regulations under a byproduct material framework, similar to how they currently regulate particle accelerators and many types of medical facilities.
Axios Seattle chronicles the growing fusion industry in the Pacific Northwest.
Zap researchers have demonstrated a key scientific approach that can be used to measure fusion plasmas in its sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch devices.
Zap Energy's Ryan Umstattd joined a panel of fusion energy industry representatives who spoke to legislators and regulators about fusion at the 2022 Technology Alliance Policy Matters Summit.
As part of their Choosing Earth series, CNET covers the fusion startups making progress developing a clean energy source that's been out of reach for decades.
The U.S. Pacific Northwest is emerging as one of the few fusion hubs worldwide. An article from GeekWire profiles Zap Energy and four other nearby fusion companies.
The University of Washington's Electrical and Computer Engineering department spotlights Zap Energy's recent progress in fusion energy development.
A new study by Zap Energy will assess the feasibility of siting a Zap fusion energy pilot plant at Washington's only remaining coal power station.
News service Newsy covers recent advances in fusion energy and profiles Zap Energy's efforts to advance Z-pinch fusion.
A blog post by ARPA-E describes the company's early origin as one of the most successful performers in the agency's ALPHA fusion program and trajectory to the recent $160 million Series C funding.
Fusion startup Zap Energy has reached two milestones that could nudge it ahead in the race to offer low-cost, carbon-free energy — a $160 million Series C round and a successful test of a prototype fusion reactor that could pave the way to a commercial version.
Seattle-area startup Zap Energy is edging closer to the promise of fusion power.
Zap Energy has taken an important step toward testing a system its researchers believe will eventually produce more electricity than it consumes.
First plasmas in FuZE-Q and $160 million in Series C funding mark major milestones for Zap Energy’s development of Z-pinch fusion as a carbon-free energy source that is much smaller and simpler than other fusion approaches.
In this video, produced for the 2022 ARPA-E Summit, Zap Energy team members explain how the sheared-flow stabilized (SFS) Z-pinch may be the simplest and most compact of all known approaches to fusion power.
Gina McCarthy and other administration officials showcased fusion energy in a bid to accelerate vast amounts of carbon-free power.
Zap Energy joined other leaders in commercial fusion as the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) hosted a summit on Developing a Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy.
By providing instruments and expertise to measure fusion-inducing plasmas, the agency offers companies a chance to back up their often ambitious claims with data from a third party.
New research may solve a decades-old problem and show that so-called sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch devices could be cured of the instabilities that disrupt fusion reactions.
In findings that could help advance another viable pathway to fusion energy, research has proven the existence of neutrons produced through thermonuclear reactions from a sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch device.
Energy Impact Partners (EIP) announced the launch of its Deep Decarbonization Frontier Fund, targeting early-stage, revolutionary technologies that accelerate the transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Zap Energy’s new Z-pinch fusion reactor promises a simpler approach to an elusive goal.
The round was led by Addition, with participation from Energy Impact Partners, GA Capital and Fourth Realm, as well as existing investors Chevron Technology Ventures and LowerCarbon Capital.
Under the roofs of two unremarkable warehouses just north of Seattle lies a solution to clean, safe, renewable, affordable energy. Enter University of Washington fusion technology spinoff Zap Energy, Inc.
The Chevron Corporation announced a Series A investment in Zap Energy, the first investment in fusion energy by a U.S. oil major.
Scientists at the University of Washington are taking a far less-frequented route to fusion known as a Z-pinch, with the early signs pointing to a cheaper and more efficient path forward.
The editors of APS Physics highlight Zap's production of fusion neutrons.
