About

2016

Berkeley, California

Hardware, Energy

An early-stage energy startup building a power plant on a chip.

Funding

Undisclosed

Undisclosed

First Round Capital

In 2019, Spark Thermionics received a $1.3 million grant from the California Energy Commission.

Jared Schwede: Founder & CEO of Spark Thermionics. Former Project Lead at Cyclotron Road at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

Lucas Hess: Principal Scientist at Spark Thermionics. Former Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley Lab.