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Who’s Who to Watch in Technology
Felipe Gomez del Campo started a company that has raised more than $130,000 in funding and recently won a top regional prize in the Energy Department’s National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition. Read More
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South Florida entrepreneurs honored at White House
Young South Florida entrepreneurs were honored at or invited to the White House this week: Felipe Gomez del Campo V, a student entrepreneur at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland who went to high school at Cypress Bay High School in Weston; Vicente Fernandez, co-founder of Miami-based Sportsmanias, and Felice Gorodo, CEO of Clearpath. Read More
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Student entrepreneur recognized by President Obama at White House
As a varsity swimmer, Felipe Gomez del Campo V is used to being in competitive waters. But today, he's swimming with sharks—as in Mark Cuban, Daymond John and Barbara Corcoran of ABC's Shark Tank. If that’s not pressure enough, he's doing it in front of one of the most powerful people on the planet: President Barack Obama. Read More
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President Obama to Recognize Emerging Global Entrepreneurs
On Monday, May 11th, the White House will bring together emerging entrepreneurs from across the United States and around the world to highlight the importance of investing in women and young entrepreneurs to create innovative solutions to some of the world’s toughest challenges, including poverty, climate change, extremism, as well as access to education and healthcare. Read More
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Purdue Students Develop Device That Harnesses Energy from Nuclear Waste
Three Purdue students and a graduate have launched a startup called Atlas Energy Systems, that has found a way to turn nuclear waste into its own source of energy, according to The Purdue Exponent. The project that started in an apartment as a prototype held together with Scotch tape has gone on to win the Indiana Clean Energy Challenge. Read More
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Students’ innovation creates sustainable energy from nuclear waste
Three Purdue students and one graduate have created an innovative and sustainable start-up company that could impact the way we use nuclear waste in the future, and it all started in a spare apartment with Scotch tape. Since then, the team has progressed into winning the state level Clean Energy Challenge, and participated in the regional level as well. Read More
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National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition: FGC Plasma Solutions Wins 2015 Regional Clean Energy Challenge
FGC Plasma Solutions from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio won the top student prize Tuesday at the Clean Energy Trust Clean Energy Challenge in Chicago, the first regional contest for the Energy Department’s National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition. Read More
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Chicago’s Clean Energy Challenge Revs Startups With $1 Million
The Clean Energy Trust held its Clean Energy Challenge yesterday at Venue SIX10 on South Michigan in Chicago. The meeting and awards culminated six months of intense work. The trust, widely known as a launchpad for cutting-edge clean energy projects, funds innovation by helping to launch, fund, and grow excellent clean tech startups in the Midwest. Today the organization gave away $1 million. NRG Energy, Hyatt, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University were among the sponsors. Read More
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Why Wells Fargo is banking on green startups
Banking giant Wells Fargo has more than 100 million square feet of real estate around the globe, so it has a big interest in even seemingly small energy savings. That's why it launched an incubator for startups, in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Lab, and it's a backer of Chicago-based Clean Energy Trust's annual startup competition, held this week. Read More
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These 8 Midwest Startups Won $1M at the Clean Energy Challenge
Raising money for cleantech companies isn't like fundraising for digital startups. The money doesn't flow nearly as fast, as it's a much riskier and more costly investment for VCs, who will often opt to fund companies that offer a better chance for a higher return on their investment. 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