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Deep-tech startup, Luffy AI has developed breakthrough AI-driven technology with the potential to deliver significant energy savings and operational efficiencies for manufacturers. The Oxfordshire-based company is preparing to deploy its first commercial solution later this year after benefitting from early-stage support from Culham Innovation Centre. Luffy AI was founded in […]

Since opening in 2001, Culham Innovation Centre – managed by Oxford Innovation Space and based within the UKAEA’s Culham Campus in Oxfordshire – has been instrumental in nurturing hightech start-ups and strengthening the UK’s fusion supply chain. Among its many success stories over the last 25 years, Tokamak Energy stands out as one of its most remarkable alumni.  When Tokamak Energy began life in 2009 as a bold spin-out […]

This spring, we’re celebrating 25 years of Culham Innovation Centre – and a quarter of a century spent supporting ambitious science and technology businesses to start, scale and succeed.  Since opening our doors in 2001, we’ve supported more than 150 early-stage companies, helping to create over 600 high value jobs and accelerate the development of pioneering technologies across fusion energy, artificial […]

Type One Energy Submits Initial Licensing Application for Tennessee’s First Commercial Fusion Project at Bull Run Site. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (January 29, 2026) — State regulators, Type One Energy, and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced today the initial submission of a “byproduct material license” application in preparation for Tennessee’s first […]

This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the women who start, scale, and sustain the businesses that keep our communities moving. Women have and continue to play a vital role in business, despite the relationship between the two not always being acknowledged fairly. Yeager (2015) proposes that bringing women’s experiences, agency, […]

M5tec’s journey is a powerful example of how values driven engineering, technical excellence, and steady, purposeful growth can transform a small start-up into a multidisciplinary engineering force. Founded in 2014 by a group of engineers committed to “engineering done right, done safely, and done to the best of everyone’s abilities,” […]