Founders Launch Fusionality to Develop Control Systems for Fusion Power

Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli have founded a startup named Fusionality in Lausanne, focusing on developing control systems for the fusion power industry. The company raised $3.7 million in a pre-seed funding round from Founderful and Playfair. Felici, the CEO, and Buchli, the CTO, aim to address the lack of available components for control systems in fusion technology. Felici noted that many companies create their own systems from scratch, despite much of the technology being similar across the industry. Fusionality plans to create a suite of control systems and simulation environments that can be adapted by various fusion startups. The company will initially concentrate on magnetic confinement fusion, which utilizes powerful electromagnets to maintain the necessary conditions for fusion. The funding will support the development of a select number of technologies, which Felici compared to building blocks for future expansion. Felici and Buchli previously worked together on AI applications for controlling experimental fusion devices, and Felici emphasized that while AI will play a role in future systems, it is not yet ready to fully control fusion reactors.