Zap Energy
zapenergy.com
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Nuclear Energy
Energy & Utilities
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Financials
Funding and backers
Total raised
$319M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$130M
Series D · Jul 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
145
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
14
open roles
Backers
2
Energy Impact Partners, Lowercarbon Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
26 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 15, 2024
Raised a round Series D $130M · SEC Form D
May 24, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $162.6M · SEC Form D
Apr 20, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $25.2M · SEC Form D
Aug 28, 2019
Raised a round Venture round $1.1M · SEC Form D
2017
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
2
best: 12 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | Jul 2024 | $130M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | May 2022 | $162.6M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Apr 2021 | $25.2M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Aug 2019 | $1.1M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | ZAP ENERGY, INC. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Brian NelsonExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Uri ShumlakDirectorSEC Form D
Benjamin ConwayExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Energy Impact Partners 
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How Zap Energy hires
Truth index
C 61/100
Ghost roles
64%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Zap Energy scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 14 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 64% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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
News
America's Top GreenTech Companies of 2026
TIME and Statista have named 250 companies pushing greentech forward
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Star power
UW researchers are leading the development of nuclear fusion, harnessing the power of a manufactured miniature sun to meet the exploding demand for sustainable energy.
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Energy may seem to disappear, but there's a law against that
When a ball rolls to stop or a phone battery dies, it's energy didn't vanish - it just morphed to another form. Energy is always conserved.
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Zap Energy ramps up the pressure in its latest fusion device
Zap Energy's Fuze-3 device has generated record plasma pressures for the startup's unique approach to fusion power.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Zap Energy over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
64/100
Languages
Python
MATLAB
Developer tools
SolidWorks
EtherCAT
KiCad
Practices & domains
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$195k
Typical range
$96k – $375k
Open positions
14
14
Jobs
Junior
14.3%
Middle
14.3%
Senior
28.6%
Staff
21.4%
Principal
7.1%
Architect
14.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $185k | $180k – $190k |
| Middle | 2 | $113k | $96k – $130k |
| Senior | 4 | $195k | $180k – $200k |
| Staff | 3 | $210k | $200k – $210k |
| Principal | 1 | $160k | $160k |
| Architect | 2 | $343k | $310k – $375k |
Highest paying role
SVP Growth & Partnerships
$375k
Normalized to USD per year
People
Brian Nelson
Executive Officer, Director
Uri Shumlak
Director
Benjamin Conway
Executive Officer, Director
Wayne Laufer
Director
Aaron Schildkrout
Director
Jasmin Staiblin
Director
Frank Chapman
Director
Clay Dumas
Director
Udayan Das Roy
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
53/100
Stable
Open positions
14
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
89 days
faster than 18% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~1 days
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
33% ▼
Leadership
17% ▼
Operations
17% ▼
Public Policy
17% ▼
Field & Service
17% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added KiCad to stack
Sep 2026
Added Jira to stack
Sep 2026
Added Outlook to stack
Sep 2026
Added MATLAB to stack
Sep 2026
Added EtherCAT to stack
Sep 2026
Added SolidWorks to stack
Sep 2026
Added Python to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Everett
Everett
United States
HQ
15 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $203k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Science & Research, QA