Entrepreneurship program at Argonne announces newest cohort of embedded startup founders
2024年7月13日 - 2:21AM
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Five new innovators will join Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI),
the Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) at the U.S.
Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, as part
of the award-winning program’s eighth cohort.
The five will join the two-year program starting this July. Each
innovator will collaborate with a host scientist at Argonne while
embedded full-time. Innovators plan to launch startups that reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and increase U.S. competitiveness in
emerging technologies. These resulting technologies support the
country’s equitable clean energy economy and may help the U.S.
reach its goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
CRI’s impact is far-reaching as it celebrates its eighth year of
embedding entrepreneurs at Argonne. The combined total raised by
CRI startups through May 2024 is over $643 million, and the program
has helped create 679 jobs to date.
“Collaborations like those between early-stage startups and CRI
help unlock the immense potential of our laboratory’s scientific
expertise,” noted Argonne Director Paul Kearns. “Through teamwork,
we’ll be able to leverage our collective knowledge and capabilities
to move science innovations to the marketplace and create economic
prosperity.”
The five new innovators in CRI’s Cohort 8 are:
- Angela Feldhaus, self-levitating, near-space platforms for
atmospheric sensing and telecommunications
- Haining Gao, hybrid solid-liquid cathode to boost lithium
primary battery energy
- Berk Kovos, SynthBits: Illuminating designer qubits for
all
- Jhana Porter, conversion of biobased overage streams into
high-value polymer bioproducts
- Scott Svadlenak, validation of economic viability of a novel
process to upcycle PVC
“We believe science is the bedrock on which innovations will
deliver a sustainable, prosperous and equitable world,” CRI
Director Dick Co said. “And what better way to realize that
promise than by embedding innovators at Argonne, the nation’s first
national lab.”
Innovators were selected following a national solicitation
process and two-part pitch competition, with reviews from industry
experts, investors, scientists and engineers.
CRI is supported by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies
Office, Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office, Building
Technologies Office; DOE’s Office of Science, Advanced Scientific
Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences; DOE’s Office of Fossil
Energy and Carbon Management; and by Argonne.
Applications for CRI’s ninth cohort will open on September
4.
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