October 9, 2024, Press Coverage

Pivot, not Panic: Chain Reaction Innovations is Driving Startup Success

By focusing on the needs of founders, Argonne’s Chain Reaction Innovations program provides startups with funding, expertise and laboratory resources to turn innovative clean-energy technologies into market-changing companies. As a result of his work at Argonne, Gary Ong, founder and CEO of Celadyne Technologies, is… Read More

July 17, 2024, Press Coverage

Entrepreneurship program at Argonne Announces Newest Cohort

Five new innovators will join Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, as part of the award-winning program’s eighth cohort. The five will join the two-year program starting this… Read More

November 20, 2023, Press Coverage

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

June 2, 2022, Press Coverage

5 clean energy startups chosen for Argonne’s Chain Reaction Innovations

Cutting-edge startups embed at Argonne to develop innovative technologies that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen emerging U.S. energy technologies. Aerial view of Argonne. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.) Seven new innovators will join Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP)… Read More

August 16, 2021, Press Coverage

Super.tech Announces Quantum Software Platform SuperstaQ

SuperstaQ aims to make quantum computing commercially viable years sooner than otherwise possible CHICAGO, IL, AUGUST 16TH, 2021 – Today, SUPER.TECH LABS INC. announced SuperstaQ, a hardware-agnostic software platform that connects applications to quantum computers from IBM Quantum, IonQ, and Rigetti. SuperstaQ delivers performance gains via optimizations that… Read More

July 16, 2021, Press Coverage

Duality Quantum Accelerator Accepts Six Startups into Inaugural Cohort

Chicago Quantum Exchange July 15, 2021 Duality, the nation’s first accelerator exclusively for quantum companies, has accepted six startups for Cohort 1. Duality is led by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago and the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE),… Read More

May 5, 2021, Press Coverage

5th Cohort of Five Innovators Selected

Lemont, IL (April 30, 2021) — Five new innovators will be joining Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory, as part of the elite program’s fifth cohort. The five will join the two-year program starting this June, and each… Read More

February 5, 2021, Press Coverage

Sustainable Energy Outlook: The Limitations, Opportunities, and Role of Water

Published on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 A panel of expert venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in the field of energy businesses discussed the state of the industry in 2021 as part of Polsky’s Entrepreneurial Outlook series. (Image credit: iStock.com/piyaset) The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship… Read More

January 5, 2021, Press Coverage

NanoPattern Technologies, ReAx Biotechnologies Receive $150,000 Each to Commercialize Research

Image (left) of a bird created with multiple patterning of red, green, and blue-emitting quantum dots. NanoPattern can use this patterning technique to pattern quantum dots on top of displays as pixels (right) making them more energy-efficient and cover a wider color… Read More

November 5, 2020, Press Coverage

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