Name

Gauss Fusion

Legal name

Gauss Fusion GmbH

Website

https://gauss-fusion.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Garching Bei München

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Fusion Electricity Generation and Sales: Pre-revenue company. Planned revenue will come from generating and selling clean fusion electricity to utility companies and grid operators through long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) or regulated utility contracts. The GIGA power plant is designed as a base load energy provider to complement renewables.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Gauss Fusion is developing the GIGA (GIGA-Kraftwerk), a gigawatt-class commercial magnetic confinement fusion power plant based on high-field magnetic confinement technology. The company is currently pre-revenue, focused on engineering design, technology maturation, and partnership development, with the first commercial reactor targeted for operation by the mid-2040s at an estimated investment of €15-18 billion.

Product overview

Gauss Fusion is a German greentech venture developing commercial magnetic confinement fusion power plants. The company's primary offering is the GIGA (GIGA-Kraftwerk) fusion power plant - a complete gigawatt-class plant-level concept based on high-field magnetic confinement fusion technology. The Conceptual Design Report (CDR) translates fusion science into a commercial blueprint, targeting first commercial operation by mid-2040s at an estimated cost of €15-18 billion.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GIGA: The GIGA fusion power plant - Gauss Fusion's gigawatt-class commercial nuclear fusion power plant design, planned for operation by mid-2040s.
• GIGA-Kraftwerk

Products and services

• GIGA Fusion Power Plant Gauss Fusion's flagship gigawatt-class commercial nuclear fusion power plant based on high-field magnetic confinement fusion technology, designed for utility-scale baseload electricity generation. Targeted for commercial operation by mid-2040s, the plant will supply clean fusion-generated electricity to utility companies and grid operators through long-term power purchase agreements or regulated utility contracts.

Quantifiable outcome

• Europe's first full design for commercial nuclear fusion power plant
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

19 partnerships are on record, tiered core, founding and supporting.

• Molten Salt SolutionscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 March 2026Strategic sales agreement for supply of enriched lithium-6 and lithium-7 isotopes for fusion energy systems. First deliveries planned for 2027. Addresses critical materials gap for commercial-scale fusion power.
• Tokamak EnergycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic collaboration with UK-based Tokamak Energy to advance high-temperature superconducting magnet technology and accelerate commercial fusion deployment across Europe. This partnership combines Tokamak Energy's compact spherical tokamak expertise with Gauss Fusion's GIGA power plant design.
• ENEA and ICAScoreTechnology or IntegrationStrategic magnet development partnerships advancing HTS (High-Temperature Superconducting) and LTS (Low-Temperature Superconducting) cable technologies to power the world's first industrial fusion plants. Phase two development launched for magnet technology maturation.
• IDOM, KIT, and Jülich Research CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration focusing on solving the tritium breeding challenge, a critical step towards construction of commercially viable fusion power plants. Combines IDOM's engineering expertise with KIT and Jülich's research capabilities.
• Alsymex (Alcen Group)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to demonstrate feasibility of innovative fusion power plant components. Alsymex, part of Alcen Group, brings expertise in magnetic confinement fusion technologies and large scientific instruments.
• Technical University of Munich (TUM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerYear-long collaboration for site selection study identifying 150 industrial clusters comprising 900 potential sites for first generation of fusion power plants in Europe, covering Germany, Netherlands, Czech Republic, France, Italy, and Spain.
• ALCEN (France)foundingStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding strategic partner and investor, contributing French high-technology expertise in defense, energy, and large scientific instruments. Includes Alsymex S.A. with particular expertise in magnetic confinement fusion technologies.
• ASG Superconductors (Italy)foundingStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding strategic partner providing Italian superconducting technology expertise for fusion applications.
• Bruker (Germany)foundingStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding strategic partner contributing Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) division expertise in superconducting materials and magnet technology. Frank Laukien serves as Executive Chairman.
• IDOM (Spain)foundingStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding strategic partner providing Spanish engineering and design expertise, particularly in advanced design and analysis for fusion projects with contributions to ITER and other fusion developments.
• Research Instruments GmbH (Germany)foundingStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding strategic partner providing German precision instrument expertise. RI has won fusion contracts worth €200M from F4E, ITER, and JT60 including cryogenic pumps, divertor components, and RF components.
• European Fusion AssociationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGauss Fusion joined forces with other leading European companies to form the European Fusion Association (EFA) to accelerate fusion commercialization across Europe.
• Proxima Fusion and Focused EnergycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGerman fusion start-ups collaboration announced June 2023, joining forces to accelerate commercialization of fusion energy in Europe.
• Max Planck Institute for Plasma PhysicssupportingTechnology or IntegrationSupporting scientific institution contributing plasma physics expertise and stellarator research including Wendelstein 7-X stellarator program.
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)supportingTechnology or IntegrationSupporting scientific institution contributing breeding blanket design, reactor technology, and tritium breeding expertise.
• CERNsupportingTechnology or IntegrationSupporting scientific institution contributing large scientific instrument expertise and technology development capabilities.
• DIFFERsupportingTechnology or IntegrationDutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research providing supporting scientific and technological research capabilities.
• Eindhoven University of TechnologysupportingTechnology or IntegrationSupporting academic institution contributing plasma physics research and stellarator turbulence modeling expertise.
• DTU (Technical University of Denmark)supportingTechnology or IntegrationSupporting academic institution contributing scientific and technological research capabilities.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Proxima Fusion: Munich-based stellarator fusion startup and explicit German partner of Gauss Fusion via the 2023 startup coalition. Comparable as a European peer pursuing the stellarator approach, sharing talent and institutional networks in Germany.
• Commonwealth Fusion Systems: US-based private fusion developer building a compact tokamak using HTS magnets (SPARC/ARC). Most directly comparable to Gauss Fusion in technology approach (high-field magnetic confinement, HTS magnets) and end-product (grid-scale fusion power).
• Focused Energy: German laser-driven inertial fusion startup, also part of the 2023 German fusion coalition with Gauss Fusion. Comparable as a European private fusion peer, though pursuing inertial confinement rather than magnetic confinement.
• TAE Technologies: US-based fusion developer pursuing field-reversed configuration with proton-boron fuel. Comparable as a well-capitalized private fusion company targeting commercial electricity production, though using a different confinement approach.
• General Fusion: Canada-based fusion developer using magnetized target fusion. Comparable as a private fusion company targeting commercial power generation, though using a non-magnetic-confinement approach.
• Tokamak Energy: UK-based fusion developer using a compact spherical tokamak with HTS magnets. Directly comparable to Gauss Fusion on confinement approach and HTS magnet development — Gauss Fusion is also an active collaboration partner of Tokamak Energy.
• Helion Energy: US-based fusion developer pursuing pulsed field-reversed configuration with direct electricity generation. Comparable as a privately funded fusion company targeting commercial electricity sales to utilities in the same mid-2030s horizon.

Emerging players

• Type One Energy: US-based stellarator fusion company developing high-field stellarators. Comparable on magnetic confinement architecture and use of HTS magnets, with overlap on stellarator-specific physics expertise.
• Zap Energy: US-based sheared-flow Z-pinch fusion developer. Comparable as a private fusion company pursuing a non-tokamak magnetic confinement path toward commercial fusion electricity, though at smaller scale than Gauss Fusion's gigawatt target.

Broad incumbents

• ITER: Multinational tokamak demonstration project under construction in France. Comparable as the dominant public-sector magnetic confinement reference project; many of Gauss Fusion's partners and advisors come from ITER's supply chain and management.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles19 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

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