A Peking University-affiliated controlled nuclear fusion company has completed an angel round of financing exceeding 50 million yuan, focusing on low-cost and high-performance fusion | Exclusive report from Yingke.

Hard Krypton has learned that "Zero Point Energy", a company dedicated to transforming basic scientific discoveries into future energy industries with great strategic value, recently completed an angel round of financing exceeding 50 million yuan. We have summarized the information of this round of financing and several highlights of the company:

Financing Amount and Investment Institutions

Financing Round: Angel Round

Financing Scale: Exceeding 50 million RMB

Use of Funds: The funds from this round will be mainly used to develop the No. 1 experimental device, which plays a crucial role. Key verification experiments based on the new route of magnetic null - point configuration fusion will be carried out to promote the R & D of low - cost, high - parameter fusion energy technology with great commercial value.

Basic Company Information

Establishment Time: September 2024

Registered Address: Beijing

Technological Highlights: One of the core challenges in realizing the application of fusion energy is how to stably confine high - temperature plasma for a long time. The magnetic null - point configuration fusion route focused on by Zero Point Energy originates from natural physical phenomena in space plasma. The team led by Xiao Chijie first confirmed the existence of the magnetic null - point configuration through satellite observation data in 2006, and the relevant results have been published in international professional journals such as "Nature Physics" many times. Since 2013, the team has developed the No. 0 experimental device at Peking University and systematically studied the physical characteristics and confinement performance of the magnetic null - point configuration. It is found that this technological path is expected to achieve high - performance fusion at a relatively low cost.

Future Plans

Fusion energy is regarded as one of the ultimate future energy sources due to its safety, cleanliness, and abundant resources. Zero Point Energy is committed to transforming basic scientific discoveries into future energy industries with great strategic value. After obtaining key parameters through the No. 1 experimental device, the company will start to develop the No. 2 and No. 3 experimental devices, thus making a key leap from parameter verification to commercial verification. Once a breakthrough is made in this technology, the power generation cost will enter the era of "one cent per kilowatt - hour", bringing nearly infinite clean energy to human society, truly realizing energy freedom, and having the potential to be applied in fields such as space propulsion and interstellar transportation.

Team Background

Zero Point Energy was jointly incubated by the Yanyuan Incubator of the Science and Technology Development Department of Peking University and Xishan Angel Club. Xiao Chijie, the company's chief scientist, is a tenured associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Physics of Peking University and once served as the deputy director of the Institute of Heavy Ion Physics at the School of Physics of Peking University. In March 2025, the company and Peking University jointly established the "Peking University - Zero Point Energy Fusion Energy Joint Laboratory". The laboratory is headed by Xiao Chijie, the founder of Zero Point Energy. The academic committee of the laboratory brings together academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and many top scientists in the field of nuclear fusion to jointly promote the frontier exploration and key technology research of magnetic null - point configuration fusion.

Investors' Thoughts

Xu Hui, the initiator of Xishan Angel Club and the director of the Innovation Engine Laboratory of Peking University HSBC Business School, said: Professor Xiao Chijie's team has found a new way outside the existing mainstream nuclear fusion technology routes. Inspired by the existing nuclear fusion configurations observed in the universe, the technical solution has a simple structure. Under the same parameters of temperature and density, the confinement time is an order of magnitude higher, and the device cost is an order of magnitude lower. In the future, it is expected to achieve one cent per kilowatt - hour, making nuclear fusion power generation and deep - space travel a reality.