{"id":118534,"date":"2021-01-15T00:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T08:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/nuclear-fusion-tech-developer-general-fusion-now-has-shopify-and-amazon-founders-backing-it"},"modified":"2021-01-15T00:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T08:24:21","slug":"nuclear-fusion-tech-developer-general-fusion-now-has-shopify-and-amazon-founders-backing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/nuclear-fusion-tech-developer-general-fusion-now-has-shopify-and-amazon-founders-backing-it","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear fusion tech developer General Fusion now has Shopify and Amazon founders backing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nuclear-fusion-tech-developer-general-fusion-now-has-shopify-and-amazon-founders-backing-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a brief announcement today, the Canadian nuclear fusion technology developer <a href=\"https:\/\/generalfusion.com\/\">General Fusion<\/a> announced that the investment firm created by Shopify founder Tobias L\u00fctke has joined the company\u2019s cap table.<\/p>\n<p>The size of the investment made by L\u00fctke\u2019s Thistledown Capital was not disclosed, but with the addition, General Fusion has the founders of the two biggest e-commerce companies in the Western world on its cap table.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, first invested in the company nearly a decade ago and General Fusion has been steadily raising cash since that time. In 2019, the company hauled in $100 million. That capital commitment is part of a haul totaling at least, $192 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/general-fusion\">according to Crunchbase<\/a> although the real figure is likely higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a brief announcement today, the Canadian nuclear fusion technology developer General Fusion announced that the investment firm created by Shopify founder Tobias L\u00fctke has joined the company\u2019s cap table. The size of the investment made by L\u00fctke\u2019s Thistledown Capital was not disclosed, but with the addition, General Fusion has the founders of the two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}