Press Coverage
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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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CRI announces expanded call for applications to join its 4th Cohort
“We’re opening this year’s call to encourage applications from anyone who feels Argonne can help them de-risk their technologies more efficiently than can be accomplished in the private sector” ― Adria Wilson, CRI’s entrepreneurial program lead Read More
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Innovators in Argonne's entrepreneurship program amass millions in investments to aid their energy startups
BY JOAN KOKA AUGUST 29, 2019 The Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) program has an impact in moving energy tech to market. As its first cohort of innovators graduates, CRI startups have raised more than $12.5 million in funding. ClearFlame Engines Chief Executive … Read More
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Argonne-led center receives award for pivotal discovery in battery technology
BY: JOSEPH E. HARMON JULY 31, 2019 Center for Electrochemical Energy Science at Argonne National Laboratory wins ‘Ten at Ten’ award from Department of Energy Ten at Ten Award winners with CEES Director Paul Fenter. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.) This year marks the tenth anniversary … Read More
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Emergy Foods, Kenkco Raise Funds to Focus on Plant-Based Sustainability
Plant-based protein startup Emergy Foods closed a $4.8 million venture capital funding round last week, which will allow the company to increase the production capacity of a (yet-to-be-announced) sustainably sourced proprietary ingredient used to create meat alternatives. Read More
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Emergy Foods opens new Boulder HQ, announces $4.8M in funding
Emergy Foods, an food company focused on nutritious, clean, sustainable, plant-based protein, on Tuesday announced it recently closed of $4.8 million in venture capital financing and has opened a new headquarters in Boulder. Read More
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ClearFlame Engines wins $10,000 in M-WERC Demo Day presentation
Punctuating another innovative and productive WERCBench Labs Accelerator program season, M-WERC hosted a successful Demo Day March 5 at our Energy Innovation Center in Milwaukee. Each participating startup presented to the audience and competed for cash prizes highlighted by ClearFlame Engines, which took first place and won $10,000. Read More
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TEDxMacatawa brings ideas, innovation to Holland
Tom Guarr, director of research and development at the MSU Bioeconomy Institute and co-founder of Jolt Energy Storage, outlined a future without grids — powered by solar energy and organic batteries. “We can disconnect the grid entirely,” Guarr said. “That gives us a way to finally bring 100 percent reliable solar-derived power on a 24/7 basis to those 1 billion people that didn’t have it 15 minutes ago.” Read More
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Argonne, mHUB sign agreement to advance high-tech manufacturing in Chicago
A powerful new partnership will boost the Chicago-area innovation ecosystem while providing a new model for manufacturing for high-tech start-ups. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with mHUB, a Chicago-based innovation center dedicated to … Read More
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Northwestern Researcher Awarded Department of Energy Tech-To-Market Fellowship at Argonne
Jung Woo “Ted” Seo accelerates lithium-ion battery performance for extreme conditions. 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
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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
