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Private fusion has raised $14.2 billion and still hasn't delivered a single net watt to the grid. The physics is on schedule, as the 1950s predicted, but manufacturing is not. What's missing? Short answer: the factory.

What determines a first-round raise? Most happens before the pitch. Get insights from a VC investor and three founders who built $16m Series A materials startups or $30m Series B electric drive companies.

Sifted asks First Momentum's Andreas Fischer where deeptech is overhyped and underrated. He's cautious on humanoids, and bullish on geothermal, non-destructive testing, and lab automation.

Jan Goetz, CEO of IQM Quantum Computers, on building a $2.5B quantum hardware company from a university lab to dual IPO.

Maritime Journal talks to Hyperdrives' CEO about cooling inside the copper conductor, which pulls 10x more heat out of a motor and shrinks it by up to 70%. On a workboat or a small ferry, that freed-up space goes to batteries, payload, or crew.

First Momentum's former Head of Research, Ana Koller, was featured in Sifted as one of Europe's technical founders to watch. Her new venture, Starforge, aims to industrialize fusion energy.

On ETN's livestream, ZuriQ's Pavel Hrmo compares today's quantum computing to classical computing in the 1940s, arguing the technology's biggest applications haven't been imagined yet.

On the Startup Insider podcast, Quantum Diamonds' Kevin Berghoff explains how the Munich startup's quantum sensors help the world's largest chipmakers inspect 3D chip architectures.