Press Coverage
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3 Startups That Are Defying The Odds And Bringing Breakthrough Discoveries To Market
Chain Reaction Innovations participant Atlas Energy is working to bring nuclear batteries to industry. Read More
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Meet 3 energy innovators getting a lift from Argonne National Laboratory
The national laboratory last month announced its second class of participants for a Midwest energy entrepreneurship program. Read More
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Public-Private Partnerships Fuel American Ingenuity
Q&A with John Carlisle, Director, Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory; Bernard Johnson, Co-founder and CEO, ClearFlame; Ian Hamilton, Founder and CEO, Atlas Energy Systems, LLC; and Justin Whiteley; Chief technology officer and co-founder, Emergy. Read More
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Olin Alumna Selected for Prestigious Tech Incubator at Argonne National Lab
Erika Boeing, a 2010 graduate of Olin College, has won a spot in a competitive national program to grow startup technologies at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Boeing will be among the second cohort to take part in the Chain Reaction Innovations program, one … Read More
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Energy Department Announces Second Cohort of Innovators in Midwest Entrepreneurship Program
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the second cohort of innovators to join Chain Reaction Innovations, the Midwest region’s first entrepreneurial research and development program based at Argonne National Laboratory, the nation’s first national laboratory. Six innovators were selected from a highly competitive pool of … Read More
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Organic battery researcher selected for innovation program at Argonne National Lab
Future alternative energy success is highly dependent on the ability to store that energy once captured. Tom Guarr, co-founder of Jolt Energy Storage Technologies LLC, and researcher at the MSU Bioeconomy Institute in Holland, Michigan, is pioneering new technology … Read More
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Tom Guarr Selected for DOE Chain Reaction Innovations Program
Future alternative energy success is highly dependent on the ability to store that energy once captured. Tom Guarr, co-founder of Jolt Energy Storage Technologies LLC, and researcher at the MSU Bioeconomy Institute in Holland, Michigan, is pioneering new technology for that purpose. After … Read More
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Argonne National Laboratory selects startups for Chain Reaction Innovations program
The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory recently selected the second group of participants in Chain Reaction Innovations, a program that embeds postdoctoral researchers at the lab where they can work on developing their technologies. Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations announces new crop of innovators
Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory is one of only three incubators in the country embedded at a national lab. How are they combining groundbreaking science with the business side of things? … Read More
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NASA iTech Selects Top Three Teams in Innovation Competition
NASA iTech has selected the top three teams out of a group of 10 finalists for their innovative technology projects and ideas that may improve future deep space exploration and life on Earth. NASA iTech is a collaborative effort to find and foster innovative … 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
