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Women-led NUMiX Materials Awarded the U.S. Bank Cleantech Inclusion Award
MINNEAPOLIS – June 30, 2020 – Clean Energy Trust announced today NUMiX Materials as the inaugural recipient of the U.S. Bank Cleantech Inclusion Award. This new award program supports female and minority entrepreneurs who are building innovative companies that benefit the environment, create jobs, and… Read More
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Super.tech Receives $150,000 from George Shultz Innovation Fund
Published on Monday, June 15, 2020 The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago has awarded $150,000 from its George Shultz Innovation Fund to Super.tech, a company that is “supercharging” near-term quantum computers to solve commercially useful problems. The team, led by Pranav… Read More
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VENTUREPRISE LAUNCH STUDENT PARTICIPANT ACCEPTED INTO ELITE CHAIN REACTIONS INNOVATIONS PROGRAM
TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2020 Ventureprise Launch Student Participant Accepted Into Elite Chain Reactions Innovations Program Author: Laura Smailes, Ventureprise Assistant Director As Margaret Kocherga, Ph.D. Nanoscale Science Student and founder of Light and Charge Solutions, pops up virtually on my screen for… Read More
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Karin Calvinho Selected for Elite Chain Reaction Innovations Program
Calvinho during the Finals Pitch Competition Six new innovators will be joining Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory, as part of the elite program’s fourth cohort. The six will join the two-year… Read More
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EPiQC-Related Startup Joins Argonne Incubator, Named Innovation Fund Finalist
UChicago CS PhD student Pranav Gokhale pitches Super.tech at the finals of the Argonne Chain Reaction Innovations program. The race to create practical and fruitful quantum computing contains many participants, including some of the world’s largest tech companies and leading research institutions. But there’s also… Read More
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UChicago Scientists Selected for Argonne’s Entrepreneurship Program
Two University of Chicago innovators developing quantum technologies are among six selected for Argonne National Laboratory’s entrepreneurship program, Chain Reaction Innovations, which helps scientists launch and scale their businesses. The Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) program – in its fourth year – is funded… Read More
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CRI employee and cancer survivor advocates for patients on Capitol Hill
After overcoming cancer not once but three times, Wenora Johnson, a Navy veteran and administrative assistant for Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), has taken to Capitol Hill to advocate for patients and families battling the same disease. Wenora Johnson, CRI Administrative Assistant In December 2019, Johnson… Read More
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Energy I-Corps program a springboard for one-time Argonne researcher turned entrepreneur
Chad Husko and Jonathan Logan had just started in the National Science Foundation I-Corps site program at the University of Chicago Polsky Center when Argonne National Laboratory posted the opportunity to gain a place in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy I-Corps training program. Husko,… Read More
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Emergy Foods Unveils New Plant-Based Meat Brand, Meati Foods
"We created Meati Foods to address the need for more nutritious options in the form of whole muscle cuts like steaks and filets." Tyler Huggins, Co-founder and CTO, Emergy Foods Read More
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Twelve Ocean Innovations Short-Listed for $100,000 Award
Ocean Exchange to convene maritime leaders, investors, technical experts, and entrepreneurs to fund, support solutions needed for more sustainable shipping and healthy oceans Finalists include CRI Cohort 2 Innovator Veronika Stelmakh of Mesodyne FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The ninth… Read More
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Semi-finalists Chosen for CRI's Cohort 8
Twenty-eight individuals with a wide range of startup technologies were chosen to advance to the semi-finals and compete to join Chain Reaction Innovations’ (CRI) Cohort 8. A broad range of innovations are represented in this year’s applicants, including energy generation and distribution, bioremediation, anti-fouling, mineralization,… Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations wins a 2023 Chicago Innovation Award
Chain Reaction Innovations has been recognized for solving unmet needs, creating jobs and generating new funding in the Chicago metro area. Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne National Laboratory, has been recognized with a Chicago Innovation Award. (Image by Chicago Innovation.) Chain… Read More
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Entrepreneurship program at Argonne opens applications for startups
Chain Reaction Innovations seeks innovators to join Cohort 8 OCTOBER 26, 2023 Develop your clean energy or climate technology with the support of Argonne National Laboratory’s Chain Reaction Innovations program. Application deadline is 5 p.m. CST, Nov. 30. Through Chain Reaction Innovations, early-stage… Read More
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New startups Join Argonne’s Entrepreneurship Program
Chain Reaction Innovations announces new cohort Clean energy startups embed at Argonne to develop innovative technologies that hold promise for helping mitigate climate change. Four startups joined Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne, to develop clean-energy technologies over two years. Four new… Read More
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Demo Day Showcased Innovators at Four National Labs
Argonne hosted Demo Day in downtown Chicago, an event celebrating innovation at four laboratory-embedded entrepreneurship programs. Resilience of innovators recognized at gathering of national lab-based technology incubators. Getting an invention or new breakthrough from the laboratory into the broader world requires more than just a… Read More