Energy
TAE Technologies
A California-based fusion energy company pursuing a distinctive field-reversed configuration approach to commercial fusion, backed by Google since 2015 through a collaboration applying machine learning to plasma physics. TAE raised over $150 million in a 2026 funding round backed by Google, Chevron, and NEA, bringing total equity capital raised to more than $1.3 billion, with the new funding supporting its next milestone of validating net energy capability in its Copernicus reactor, targeting electricity on the grid in the early 2030s.
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- Data Center Dynamics / TAE Technologies press release — TAE Technologies raises $150M+ backed by Google, Chevron ahead of Copernicus net-energy milestone60% source confidence
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TAE Technologies's Timeline
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Jan 1998 · Founded
TAE Technologies was founded to pursue a field-reversed configuration approach to commercial nuclear fusion.
Jan 2015 · Google partnership begins
Google began backing TAE Technologies and collaborating on machine-learning-driven plasma physics optimization, a partnership that has continued through multiple funding rounds.