Recently, Rongzhong Finance released 2025–2026 Rongzhong Annual China POWER50 Enterprise Ranking. Startorus Fusion has been selected for the most prestigious segment of the list — Annual China Top 50 Unicorn Enterprises, alongside DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Unitree Robotics, LandSpace and other renowned firms. Notably, Startorus Fusion is the only private enterprise specializing in commercial controlled nuclear fusion energy to make the cut this year.
On May 26, 2026, Rongzhong Finance, a leading financial media outlet for China’s primary market, officially unveiled its 2025–2026 Rongzhong Annual China POWER50 Enterprise Ranking. The ranking selects 150 benchmark new-economy Chinese enterprises distinguished by outstanding innovation and resilience, grouped into three core categories: “Annual China Top 50 Unicorn Enterprises”, “Annual China Top 50 Soonicorn Enterprises”, and “Annual China Top 50 Future Unicorn Enterprises”. Startorus Fusion has secured a spot in the most high-value category: “Annual China Top 50 Unicorn Enterprises”.
This selection comes at the outset of the rollout of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Six future industrial tracks, namely quantum technology, bio-manufacturing, hydrogen energy & nuclear fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, and 6th-generation mobile communications (6G), have been clearly included in top-level design as key sectors receiving strong national strategic support. Against this backdrop, capital markets and industry rating agencies have reached a clearer, faster consensus on positioning China’s domestic controlled nuclear fusion energy enterprises.
Fellow honorees on the list span cutting-edge hard-tech tracks including artificial intelligence, commercial aerospace, embodied intelligence, semiconductors, new energy, and controlled nuclear fusion energy. Representative firms include DeepSeek, Moonshot AI (Kimi), StepVerse, Unitree Robotics, Agibot, GALBOT, Galactic Energy Space, LandSpace, Qingtao Energy, Welion New Energy, Enflame, and BrainCo. The ranking is developed based on Bridge Data, the exclusive proprietary database of Rongzhong Research. Evaluation results are cross-verified through questionnaires, expert interviews and multi-dimensional public data. The assessment framework is built around four core dimensions: overall strength, innovation capability, financing performance, and public reputation.
Startorus Fusion is the only private enterprise engaged in controlled nuclear fusion energy selected into China Top 50 Unicorn Enterprises list this year.
In May 2026, Startorus Fusion secured its Series A+ financing worth 500 million RMB. Its total financing has exceeded 2 billion RMB, with a valuation surpassing USD 1 billion, officially qualifying it as a unicorn enterprise. The raised capital will be continuously invested in the construction of its experimental base in Jiading, Shanghai, the on-site installation and commissioning of the NTST (Negative Triangular Spherical Tokamak), iterative optimization of the CTRFR-1 (Startorus No.1) design, as well as the engineering commercialization of core technologies, including finalized manufacturing of fusion-grade high-temperature superconducting magnets and AI-based plasma control.
For Startorus Fusion, unicorn status represents an interim outcome recognized by the market and the industry, rather than an end goal. The true benchmarks that define the company’s value lie in every engineering milestone laid out in its roadmap: completing the installation of the NTST by the end of the year, reaching rated operational parameters in 2027, finishing the construction of CTRFR-1 around 2028, achieving an equivalent fusion gain factor Q > 1 between 2029 and 2030, and building a demonstration fusion reactor capable of delivering usable electricity in the early 2030s.
