Starlight Engine Signs Agreement to Receive Investment from TAKANAWA GATEWAY Global Co-Benefits Fund L.P. Established by JR East and Global Brain
Oct 20, 2026 • Starlight Engine
Starlight Engine
Starlight Engine Ltd.
Fusion Machine Developer
Funding
$37.4M
Founding Year
2025
Location
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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.
News
Starlight Engine Launches New Management Structure as the FAST Project Advances
Sep 29, 2026 • Starlight Engine
Funding Received (Investment)
October 21, 2026
round
July 15, 2026
roundFirst external funding round
$37,400,000
Funding Received (Nondilutive)
August 31, 2026
programMETI Fusion Demonstration Subsidy
