DTW Talks/Deep Tech Week SF 2025

Caroline Anderson - Fusion Industry Association | Fusion Business Landscape 2025

Fusion Business Landscape ↗ June 25, 2025 San Francisco
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Caroline Anderson explains how the fusion industry is growing and what it will take to turn technical progress into commercial power plants. She covers investment, supply chains, workforce development, public-private partnerships, plant sites and customers, and regulation and government risk sharing.

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Speaker Caroline Anderson — Fusion Industry Association LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-anderson-331613163/ Organization: https://www.fusionindustryassociation.org/ Recorded at Fusion Business Landscape during Deep Tech Week SF 2025 on June 25, 2025. Event: https://www.deep-tech-week.com/sf-2025/events/fusion-business-landscape Event sponsors Lowercarbon Capital: https://lowercarbon.com/ Gigascale Capital: https://gigascale.com/ Chapters 0:00 Introduction and the Fusion Industry Association 2:36 Industry growth and why fusion is accelerating 4:58 Building a commercial fusion industry 5:58 Scaling suppliers and the workforce 7:05 Public-private partnerships 8:25 Power plant sites and customers 9:29 Government support and fusion regulation 10:57 Supply chain challenges and risk sharing English captions were generated automatically and may contain transcription errors. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gAuj1ra3-g

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Caroline Anderson ↗

Head of Public Affairs and Communications · Fusion Industry Association

Caroline Anderson serves as the Head of Public Affairs and Communications at the Fusion Industry Association, where she leads efforts in advocacy, policy communication, and public engagement for the fusion energy sector. She has spoken at events such as the Fusion Energy Landscape, demonstrating her expertise in promoting fusion technology and its potential impacts. Her role focuses on bridging the gap between the fusion industry and broader audiences through strategic communications.

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Fusion Industry Association ↗

The Fusion Industry Association is a non-profit trade association composed of 38 private fusion energy companies as full members and over 100 affiliate members including suppliers, utilities, research institutions, and professional services firms. It publishes annual Global Fusion Industry reports surveying member companies on private investment raised, technical approaches to fusion power generation, projected timelines for first power plants in the early 2030s, and supply chain needs. Headquartered in Washington, DC, the organization is led by founding CEO Andrew Holland since 2021, who brings over two decades of experience in science, energy policy, and politics from prior roles at the American Security Project and on Capitol Hill.

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Gigascale Capital ↗

Gigascale Capital backs early-stage companies rebuilding the physical economy for climate impact. Founded in 2023 by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, Victoria Beasley, and Evaline Tsai, the firm has invested in more than 25 companies across clean energy, advanced manufacturing, grid infrastructure, and physical AI. Some decarbonize directly. Others build the enabling layers that make physical systems faster and cheaper to design, build, and deploy. In both cases, climate impact follows from better performance.

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Lowercarbon Capital ↗

Lowercarbon Capital is a climate-focused venture capital firm founded in 2018 by renowned investor Chris Sacca (formerly of Lowercase Capital, with early bets on Uber and Twitter) and his partners, dedicated to backing companies that drastically reduce CO₂ emissions, remove carbon from the atmosphere, and develop technologies to mitigate climate impacts. With over $2 billion in assets under management, it invests primarily in early-stage and growth-stage startups across sectors like clean energy, carbon removal, sustainable materials, food/agriculture, transportation, and advanced manufacturing. The firm has built a large portfolio of over 200 companies, including unicorns such as Crusoe (sustainable compute infrastructure), Watershed (enterprise carbon management), and Solugen (bio-based chemicals), alongside notable investments in frontier tech like Zap Energy (fusion), Heirloom and Avalanche Energy (carbon removal and fusion), Sublime Systems (low-carbon cement), and Crux (clean energy tax credits marketplace). Lowercarbon stands out for its aggressive, founder-friendly approach—providing hands-on support, hustling for portfolio success, and funding high-risk research—while emphasizing that profitable, superior technologies are key to scaling climate solutions and "unf**king the planet."

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