Maritime Fusion YC 申请

Winter 2025Active

Maritime Fusion 在 Winter 2025 批次的 Y Combinator 中作为一家 Industrials 公司进行过。以下是：公司做什么、谁创立了它，以及其 YC 申请，按照真实 YC 表格逐题重建。

YC 批次: Winter 2025
行业: IndustrialsEnergy
团队规模: 6
状态: Active
已发布: 2025

创始人

Justin CohenFounder
Jason KaufmannFounder

Maritime Fusion 做什么

Maritime Fusion is building fusion reactors for ships and off grid energy markets. En route on this endeavor we’re commercializing High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) cable technology for power distribution while advancing the physics basis of our HTS tokamak to decarbonize global shipping. Breakeven fusion is coming soon, but the first-of-a-kind (FOAK) reactors will be costly, high maintenance, and have low capacity factors, leading to 5 - 10x higher electricity cost on the grid. Maritime Fusion is pursuing the most widely accepted approach to fusion, the tokamak, but specifically designed for the marine environment where the challenges that arise between breakeven and a commercially viable energy source are alleviated. The market we're targeting requires 15x less power, lower up-time, and costs the same as alternative fuels but without any emissions. Since fusion does not use highly radioactive fuels or materials - unlike fission - we sidestep the vast majority of regulatory challenges and safety risks associated with nuclear energy. Our team brings over a decade of industry and research experience in plasma physics, nuclear engineering, and electrical engineering with backgrounds at SpaceX, Tesla, Columbia University, and University of Pennsylvania.

Maritime Fusion 的 YC 申请，重建版

Y Combinator 申请

Maritime Fusion，Winter 2025 期。来自公开数据的真实申请问题解答。

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Maritime Fusion

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Fusion reactors for ships

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We're building fusion reactors specifically designed to power ships and off-grid energy markets. Along the way, we're commercializing high temperature superconducting cable technology for power distribution. Our fusion approach uses HTS tokamaks optimized for marine environments, aiming to decarbonize global shipping with safer, less regulated reactors that avoid the common fission challenges.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the engineering talent and investor community suited for advanced energy and hard tech. Our backgrounds and team are already rooted here.

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Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference 包含在完整版中。创建免费账户即可在 YC Insights 中打开，紧邻每个其他 YC 批次。

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常见问题解答

这是 Maritime Fusion 的真实 YC 申请吗？

不是。Y Combinator 对提交的申请保密。这是重建版：使用 Maritime Fusion 的公开数据（发布笔记、创始人背景、产品描述）回答真实的 YC 表格问题。它展示了像 Maritime Fusion 这样的公司会如何向 YC 自我介绍，而不是他们提交的文本。

Maritime Fusion 是哪个 YC 批次的？

Maritime Fusion 是 Y Combinator Winter 2025 批次的成员。

谁创立了 Maritime Fusion？

Maritime Fusion 由 Justin Cohen, Jason Kaufmann 创立。

Maritime Fusion 做什么？