Quaise Energy
Petroleum & Mining Engineering · Energy & Utilities
$226.1Mtotal raised · 6 rounds on record
3open roles
$134Mlatest round · Series B · Jul 2026 · 4 mo ago
2backers · Engine Ventures, Fine Structure Ventures
Overview
Quaise is an energy company unlocking geothermal energy for the world population through millimeter wave drilling technology.
How Quaise Energy hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
100 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Quaise Energy scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 100 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$226.1M
6 rounds on record
Latest round
$134M
Series B · Jul 2026 · 4 mo ago
Team
61
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +15% in a year
Hiring now
6
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Engine Ventures, Fine Structure Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
4 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
48/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 3
Board appointment Ali Azad, Director · SEC Form D
Jul 7
Raised a round Series B $134M
Mar 12, 2024
Raised a round Series A $21M · Venturebeat
Feb 7, 2024
New executive Quaise Energy Appoints Dr. Geoffrey Garrison as Vice President of Operations and Dr. Trenton Cladouhos as Vice President of Geothermal Resource Devel… · businesswire.com
Nov 29, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $13.1M · SEC Form D
May 26, 2022
New executive Quaise Energy Appoints Kevin Bonebrake as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Corporate Development Business Wire · businesswire.com
Feb 7, 2022
Raised a round Series A $40M
Jul 30, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $12M · SEC Form D
May 22, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $6M · SEC Form D
2018
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Jul 2026 | $134M | — | morningstar.com |
| Series A | Mar 2024 | $21M | — | Venturebeat |
| Venture round | Nov 2023 | $13.1M | — | SEC Form D |
| Series A | Feb 2022 | $40M | — | businesswire.com |
| Venture round | Jul 2021 | $12M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | May 2020 | $6M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Quaise, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Carlos AraqueExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Kevin BonebrakeExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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Visa sponsorship
1
H-1B filings in 12 months
$98k
Median offered salary
6
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Physicists
1
In the register as Quaise Energy, Inc., Houston, TX
Other sponsors in the same field
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station 28 filings
Worley 27 filings
Wood 14 filings
Baker Hughes 11 filings
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Dec 15, 2025 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
68/100
Growing
Open positions
6
2 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
100 days
faster than 11% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
60% ▼
Finance
20% ▼
Management
20% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Obsidian to stack
Oct 2026
Added Design of Experiments to stack
Oct 2026
Added ANSYS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Sep 2026
Added Power BI to stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$226.1M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
6
People
Carlos Araque
Executive Officer, Director
Kevin Bonebrake
Executive Officer
Ann DeWitt
Director
Craig Shapiro
Director
Colleen Calhoun
Director
Arunas Chesonis
Director
Mark Cupta
Director
William Restrepo
Director
Jill Watz
Director
Frohman Anderson
Director
Ali Azad
Director
Vinod Khosla
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Quaise Energy over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
60/100
Languages
MATLAB
Python
Cloud & platforms
Power BI
Developer tools
ANSYS
Microsoft Excel
Practices & domains
Design of Experiments
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Shared investors
Fine Structure VenturesVia a fund
Engine VenturesVia a fund
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Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
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Nabors Expands Geothermal Growth Platform with $35 Million Strategic Investment in Quaise Energy
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Breaking the Depth Barrier with Millimeter-Wave Drilling and the First Superhot Geothermal Power Plant
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This fusion beam can drill 12 miles into Earth
The deepest hole ever drilled took almost 20 years - and still barely scratched the planet. Now MIT spinout Quaise Energy has raised $134 million to drill deeper, faster - not with drill bits, but with millimeter-wave energy beams that vaporize solid rock
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JERA Invests in Quaise Energy, a U.S. Growth-Stage Developer of Next-Generation Superhot Geothermal Energy Technology JERA
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Quaise Energy Raises $134 Million Series B Initial Close To Build Superhot Geothermal Power Plant
Quaise Energy announced the initial close of its Series B financing, raising $134 million. The round was led by Prelude Ventures, with strategic investments from JERA and Idemitsu, two of Japan's largest energy companies. Nearly all existing investors, in
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Houston
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Cambridge
United States
HQ
Houston
United States
Plant / site
Houston, TX
4 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 75% remote 200-500 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Management, Early Careers
Denver
United States
Plant / site
Remote/Hybrid
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Management
Boston
United States
Regional office
Boston, MA
La Pine
United States
Regional office
La Pine, OR