Starlight Engine
Starlight Engine Ltd.
Fusion Machine Developer
Founding Year
2025
Company Founders
Kiyoshi Seko
Satoshi Konishi
Leadership
Kiyotaka KIKUCHI, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Kenzo IBANO, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Shuhei AZUMA, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
Yuto YOSHIOKA, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Website
Starlight Engine is a Japanese fusion energy startup established in April 2025 as a group company of Kyoto Fusioneering. It leads the FAST (Fusion by Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) project, a privately led industry-academia initiative aiming to demonstrate fusion power generation in the 2030s with a compact, low-aspect-ratio superconducting tokamak.
Funding Received (Investment)
July 15, 2026
round
$37,400,000
