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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
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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
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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
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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
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CRI employee and cancer survivor advocates for patients on Capitol Hill
After overcoming cancer not once but three times, Wenora Johnson, a Navy veteran and administrative assistant for Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), has taken to Capitol Hill to advocate for patients and families battling the same disease. Wenora Johnson, CRI Administrative Assistant In December 2019, Johnson … Read More
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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
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Emergy Foods Unveils New Plant-Based Meat Brand, Meati Foods
"We created Meati Foods to address the need for more nutritious options in the form of whole muscle cuts like steaks and filets." Tyler Huggins, Co-founder and CTO, Emergy Foods Read More
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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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Sustainable Time Travel Technology Earns CRI Golden Buzzer Award
The coveted Golden Buzzer Award was given for the first time at CRI’s Cohort 7 Pitch Competition. This year, to celebrate the return of in-person Finals at Argonne National Laboratory, organizers of the event added the ‘Golden Buzzer’ Award. It functions like the popular gameshow, … Read More
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Finalists Chosen for CRI’s Cohort 7
Eighteen individuals comprising 16 startups advanced to the Finals pitch competition to join Chain Reaction Innovations’ Cohort 7. A broad range of energy innovations are represented in this year’s applicants, including energy storage and generation, decarbonization, circular economy, manufacturing, materials and vehicle technologies and materials. Read More
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Semi-Finalists Chosen For CRI's Cohort 7
Thirty individuals comprising 28 startup technologies were chosen to advance to the semi-finals and compete to join Chain Reaction Innovations’ (CRI) Cohort 7. A broad range of energy innovations are represented in this year’s applicants, including energy storage and generation, water, decarbonization, circular economy, quantum, … Read More
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Entrepreneurship program at Argonne National Laboratory opens applications for startups
Develop your clean energy or climate tech startup with the support of Argonne National Laboratory’s Chain Reaction Innovations program. Apply now, applications close at 5 p.m. CST, Nov. 30, 2022. Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at The U.S. Department of Energy’s ( … Read More
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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
