Announcements
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MIT report on cleantech investment touts national lab incubators
The report “Venture Capital and Cleantech: The Wrong Model for Clean Energy Innovation” put out by the MIT Energy Initiative highlights the need for increased government support of clean tech innovations. The report also points to the need to replicate the new model of incubators … Read More
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Entrepreneur Application Opens for New $4.4 Million Energy Incubator at Argonne National Laboratory
Two years’ worth of financial and technical support to grow the next big idea in energy technology in the Midwest is now a reality for the nation’s best and brightest innovators. Read more … Read More
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Energy Technology Incubator Offers 2 Years of Funding and Technical Aid
Innovators working on energy and science technologies can get two years worth of financial and technical support by applying to a new incubator at Argonne National Laboratory. The application period opened July 12 for the incubator named Chain Reaction Innovations. Applications are due by 5 … Read More
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Progress on President Obama’s “Lab to Market” Initiative
Argonne National Laboratory scientist Ralph Muehleisen describes why he took the path of commercializing his technology through a startup. Muehleisen worked with Lab-Corps and entrepreneurs to market Sonic Leak Quantifier (SonicLQ) a technology that uses sound to locate air leaks in buildings and determine the … Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations Opens the Application Process for Mentor Partners
Argonne National Laboratory believes that the impact of Chain Reaction Innovations is maximized via public-private partnerships. Argonne is seeking one or more not-for-profit, private sector or university incubator collaborators for such a partnership. Read More
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Argonne Launches First Tech Incubator
Developing transformative energy technologies and cleaner manufacturing processes and new materials requires more than a great idea and some committed people. It takes an innovation ecosystem. Read More
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Demo Day 2020 Goes Virtual
In a normal year, some of the brightest entrepreneurs in America might market their technologies to industry representatives at an evening soiree in a downtown skyscraper. But this year, startups embedded in three national laboratories – which are making a name for themselves as innovators … Read More
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Catalyst Conversations: Launching a Pioneering Quantum Startup
Oct 27, 2020 | Catalyst, Q&A, University Entrepreneurship In October, we partnered with the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE) to explore the evolving landscape of Quantum Information Science (QIS) in Illinois—including how researchers in the state are … Read More
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CRI Cohort 1 Company Raises $28.2 Million
September 4, 2020 —Emergy Inc., now Meati Foods, raised $28.2 million in its Series A funding round from 44 investors, according to a report from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The mushroom-based alt meat brand operates from Boulder Colorado and creates … Read More
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Call for Cohort 5 Applications
Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at Argonne National Laboratory, will begin accepting applications on September 15 for cohort 5. Entrepreneurs in any technology area that can leverage Argonne’s resources in partnership with the Advanced Manufacturing Office of the Department of Energy (DOE) are … Read More
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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
