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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • July 12 summit showcases Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program

    Clean energy startups are developing climate solutions with U.S. Department of Energy resources through the LEEP program. Since 2015, clean energy entrepreneurs have developed game-changing technologies with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP). The… Read More

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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

  • Director's Letter

    Dear Friends of CRI, Welcome to the Summer 2024 issue of the CRI newsletter. In it, you’ll see the breadth of our spring and summer activities. It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to CRI’s newest cohort. Welcoming a new cohort is… Read More

  • LEEP Demo Day 2024

    In May, the Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program’s (LEEP) Demo Day featured graduating cohorts from the four LEEP nodes including Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory, Innovation Crossroads at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, West Gate at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Cyclotron Road at Lawrence… Read More

  • CRI Seeks Applicants for Next Cohort

    Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), a Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, will begin accepting applications for Cohort 2025 on September 4th, the program’s ninth group of early-stage startups. Innovators with emerging science and energy… Read More

  • 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