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Starlight Engine: Funding, Investors & Team (Oct 2026)

Starlight Engine develops and commercializes fusion energy power plant technologies.

sle.energy Tokyo, Japan
Total raised
$37.4M
Rounds
1
Latest
Seed
Jul 2026

Starlight Engine has raised $37.4M across 1 funding round on record, the most recent a Seed of $37.4M announced in Jul 2026.

That round is above the $3.3M median round size for Japan companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Starlight Engine Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$37.4M
across 1 round on record
Funding rounds on record
1
Latest funding round
Seed
$37.4M in Jul 2026
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Investors on record
16
5 named below

Latest funding round on record: Jul 2026.

Starlight Engine Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Seed
$37.4M

Starlight Engine Investors

MUFG Bank Global Brain Corporation Mizuho Bank Kyoto University Innovation Capital Keio Innovation Initiative

16 investors are recorded in total; the 5 named above are those the record identifies.

Starlight Engine Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Kenzo Ibano
Chief Technology Officer
Locked
Yuto Yoshioka
Chief Operating Officer
Locked

Contact details for the Starlight Engine team: 2 of 2 have an email address on file, 2 have a LinkedIn profile.

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Starlight Engine Funding in Context

Segment
Companies
Median round
366
$3.3M
17,054
$3.1M

Starlight Engine's latest round of $37.4M is above the median round in Japan. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Starlight Engine Funding FAQs

What does Starlight Engine do?

Starlight Engine develops and commercializes fusion energy power plant technologies.

How much funding has Starlight Engine raised?

Starlight Engine has raised $37.4M across 1 round on record. The most recent is a Seed of $37.4M announced in Jul 2026.

When did Starlight Engine last raise funding?

Starlight Engine's most recent funding round on record is a Seed of $37.4M, announced in Jul 2026.

Who has invested in Starlight Engine?

Investors on record for Starlight Engine include MUFG Bank, Global Brain Corporation, Mizuho Bank, Kyoto University Innovation Capital, Keio Innovation Initiative. FundedIQ records 16 investors in total.

Where is Starlight Engine headquartered?

Starlight Engine is based in Tokyo, Japan.

About FundedIQ's Starlight Engine Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Starlight Engine is left off this page rather than filled in.

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