https://nashboykin.com/tags/funding/ Recent content in Funding on Stars on Earth https://nashboykin.com/images/og-card.png https://nashboykin.com/images/og-card.png Hugo en-us 2026 Nash Boykin · Stars on Earth Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0400 https://nashboykin.com/posts/fusion-funding-by-region/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0400 https://nashboykin.com/posts/fusion-funding-by-region/ <p>A conversation with Rachel Bielajew, Head of Research at Rutherford Energy Ventures, and Riley Moeykins, Associate Technical Analyst there — Rutherford is a fusion-focused consulting firm, apparently the first of its kind — is where this one actually came from. Most of the conversation was about capital: their pitch is that financing structure, not physics, is one of the biggest levers determining which fusion bets actually make it to a commercial plant, and they specifically suggested this comparison — how differently the US, UK, and Europe handle that lever. The short version: they aren&rsquo;t just racing toward fusion at different speeds, they&rsquo;re running the race through three genuinely different institutional playbooks for who supplies the capital, and on what terms.</p>