MIT spinout Quaise has added $12m to its coffers, having previously collected seed funding from The Engine.

Quaise, a US-based geothermal energy technology spinout of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has secured $12m in funding from land drilling company Nabors Industries. Quaise has developed a millimetre wave drilling method for extracting geothermal energy produced and stored within the interior of Earth. The money will accelerate technology development towards a first field demonstration. Quaise previously obtained $6m in a seed round led by MIT-aligned tough tech fund and incubator The Engine that also included venture firm Collaborative Fund and private investor Vinod Khosla in June 2020. Carlos Araque, co-founder and CEO of Quaise, said: “This partnership puts us on a path to show the true potential of geothermal within the next three years domestically. “Not only will Nabors’ technology development and deployment capabilities cut years of development time, but it will also provide us with an established human capital and supply chain base to scale to terawatts.”

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