September 9, 2020, Press Coverage

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

June 30, 2020, Press Coverage

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

June 15, 2020, Press Coverage

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

May 7, 2020, Press Coverage

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

April 22, 2020, Press Coverage

Karin Calvinho Selected for Elite Chain Reaction Innovations Program

Calvinho during the Finals Pitch Competition Six new innovators will be joining Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory, as part of the elite program’s fourth cohort. The six will join the two-year… Read More

April 21, 2020, Press Coverage

EPiQC-Related Startup Joins Argonne Incubator, Named Innovation Fund Finalist

UChicago CS PhD student Pranav Gokhale pitches Super.tech at the finals of the Argonne Chain Reaction Innovations program. The race to create practical and fruitful quantum computing contains many participants, including some of the world’s largest tech companies and leading research institutions. But there’s also… Read More

April 20, 2020, Press Coverage

UChicago Scientists Selected for Argonne’s Entrepreneurship Program

Two University of Chicago innovators developing quantum technologies are among six selected for Argonne National Laboratory’s entrepreneurship program, Chain Reaction Innovations, which helps scientists launch and scale their businesses. The Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) program – in its fourth year – is funded… Read More

November 13, 2019, Press Coverage

Energy I-Corps program a springboard for one-time Argonne researcher turned entrepreneur

Chad Husko and Jonathan Logan had just started in the National Science Foundation I-Corps site program at the University of Chicago Polsky Center when Argonne National Laboratory posted the opportunity to gain a place in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy I-Corps training program. Husko,… Read More

October 24, 2016, Press Coverage

Argonne’s Chain Reaction Innovations –Overcoming the World’s Energy and Science Challenges

The Defense Systems Information Analytics Center highlights new opportunities with CRI. Read more.

October 7, 2016, Press Coverage

Brewery wastewater transformed into energy storage

Colorado-based engineers, who competed at the Chain Reaction Innovations finals, have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells. This unique pairing of breweries and batteries could set… Read More