TAE Technologies, Inc.

TAE Technologies (formerly known as Tri Alpha Energy) is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to produce commercial fusion energy. Their work has resulted in advances in accelerator and plasma physics as well as innovations in healthcare, transportation and power management.

TAE Technologies has raised $90.4M in funding over 6 rounds from Venrock, Vulcan Capital, and RUSNANO.

• Princeton University - Theory and modeling of Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasmas, development of plasma diagnostics.
• University of California, Los Angeles - Studies of plasma turbulence in FRC and methods of advanced turbulence control.
• University of California, Irvine - Gyrokinetic code development and numerical simulations of plasma turbulence.
• University of Wisconsin, Madison - Materials research and radiation safety.
• Lawrence Livermore National Lab - Divertor physics.
• University of Pisa (Italy) - Spectroscopic diagnostics.
• Budker Institute (Russia) - Neutral beams for plasma heating and current drive, plasma injectors for active boundary control, fast ion diagnostics, divertor physics.
• Pelin, LLC (Russia) - Plasma refueling with cryogenic pellets.
• Nihon University (Japan) - Plasma refueling with compact toroid plasmas.