Alumni Ventures

Nox Metals is a seven-month-old startup based in Southwest Detroit that specializes in custom aluminum blocks for CNC machining. The company uses AI automation to significantly reduce lead times from days to seconds. Nox Metals aims to revitalize a World War II-era factory to further its mission and enhance production capabilities.

Thea Energy is a New Jersey-based fusion power company commercializing a planar-coil stellarator architecture, using arrays of mass-manufacturable superconducting magnets and software-defined controls in place of precision-machined 3D coils. Spun out of Princeton University and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in 2022, it is an awardee of the US Department of Energy's Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program and is building the Eos integrated stellarator en route to its first commercial Helios power plant.