Justin Whiteley
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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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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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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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AMO Partners Named Energy Sector Finalists for 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30
This week Forbes released its list of energy sector finalists for the 2018 30 Under 30, which included four from the Department of Energy’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs. These innovators are leveraging the unique strengths and capabilities of their respective host national labs and regional … Read More
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Forbes 30 Under 30 In Energy 2018: Fueling A More Sustainable Future
Congratulations to the energy sector finalists for the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30. This is the seventh installment of the project. Each year we highlight a group of upstarts, judged by our sources and judges, to be among the most promising individuals working across the … Read More
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CLEANTECH OPEN MIDWEST ANNOUNCES GLOBAL FORUM FINALISTS
Cleantech Open Midwest is pleased to announce the Global Forum Competition finalists for the 2017 Cleantech Open Midwest Region Awards & Innovation Showcase. On Nov. 2nd-3rd, 2017, the award ceremony hosted by the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St … Read More
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Growing a Startup with a Big Impact from a Tiny Fungi
Entrepreneur Tyler Huggins grew up in rural Montana in a family of loggers and miners. But he wanted to have a larger impact on society as a whole, so he decided to launch a startup. He looked at many options, but they just … Read More
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Growing A Startup With A Big Impact From A Tiny Fungi
Entrepreneur Tyler Huggins grew up in rural Montana in a family of loggers and miners. But he wanted to have a larger impact on society as a whole, so he decided to launch a startup. He looked at many options, but they just didn't have the impact he craved. Until he met Justin Whiteley, a fellow entrepreneur who had been working to build next-generation battery technology near Silicon Valley. The pair formed Emergy. Read More
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Growing a startup with a big impact from a tiny fungi
Huggins and Whiteley launched their startup while post docs at the University of Colorado-Boulder and moved to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in January after earning a spot in Chain Reaction Innovations, the lab’s new program to accelerate cleantech innovation by growing entrepreneurs. Read More
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Cohort 4 Finals feature 15 teams
After receiving a record-breaking 156 applications, Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) evaluated 35 semifinalists during five days of semifinal pitch competition webinars. Now 15 teams of innovators will be vying for a spot in CRI’s Cohort 4 at the CRI Finals Pitch Competition, 9:00 a.m. – … Read More
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Semifinalists chosen from record number of applicants for Cohort 4
Semifinalists have been chosen to advance in the competition to join Chain Reaction Innovations’ (CRI’s) Cohort 4. In September and October 2019, a record-breaking 156 applications were submitted in CRI’s annual call for entries. After reviews from staff and the CRI Scientific Review Board to narrow … 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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Argonne’s Chain Reaction Innovations appoints first advisory council
Lemont IL (May 8, 2019) — World-class energy leaders will offer their expertise to Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, as part of a new Advisory Council announced today. Argonne is operated … Read More
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Five new innovators join Chain Reaction Innovations in third cohort
Argonne helps innovators accelerate energy and science tech-to-market Lemont, IL (April 24, 2019) — Five new innovators will be joining Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory, as part of the elite program’s third cohort. Read More
