Cyclotron Road

Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the 2024 cohort of #scientists and #engineers selected to join Cyclotron Road — a DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (#LEEP) at Berkeley Lab. The program provides fellows with a living stipend, research funding, #entrepreneurial #training in collaboration with non-profit partner Activate, and access to the multidisciplinary researchers and resources of Berkeley Lab. This new cohort of 14 fellows adds 10 companies to the program, bringing the total number of companies advanced by Cyclotron Road fellows to 84 and the all-time number of fellows to 109. Congratulations and welcome Mert Akin, Rakkiyappan Chandran, Rushin Contractor, Gabriella Dweck, Nosa Edoimioya, Advait Holkar, Nikita Khlystov, Hitesh Manglani, Pauliina Meskanen, Carla Pinzon, Kelly Redmond, Nicholas Sarai, John Slack, and Nate Weger! Read on for details: https://lnkd.in/ghfVyURY

Congratulations to VERDE Nanomaterials for being among seven projects selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) for awards totaling $4.36 million as part of the 2023 CRADA call by the FCIC! Founder and CEO Danielle Pascoli is in the 2022 cohort of the Berkeley Lab Cyclotron Road program, a DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program, operated in collaboration with non-profit Activate. Read on for details about the award:

This #EarthDay we want to take a moment to applaud recent 👏 polymer and plastics innovation 👏 advancements by Cyclotron Road program fellows past and present. These scientists and engineers who participate in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship program at Berkeley Lab, in collaboration with non-profit Activate, are inventing new materials that address the global challenge of #plastic waste in unique ways: ⛅ Aanindeeta Banerjee, co-founder and CEO at ReSource Chemical , is leading her team to create plastic made from #CO2 and inedible biomass. (Cohort 2020) ♻ Kezi Cheng, CEO at FLO Materials, is leading her team to develop next-generation plastics for boundless #recycling. (Cohort 2021) Aaron Hall, founder and CEO at Intropic Materials, is leading his team to produce self-degrading #plastic products that can be composted or completely recycled using patented enzyme-stabilizing nanotechnology. (Cohort 2021) 🍂 Danielle Pascoli, founder and CEO at VERDE Nanomaterials, is leading her team to transform plant waste into advanced #cellulose nanofibers. (Cohort 2022) 🌎 Please join us in celebrating these and all of the entrepreneurs and innovators striving to solve environmental and climate challenges with science, technology, and collaboration 🌏 around the world 🌍 today and every day! #earthweek #earthday2024 #plasticsrecycling #bioeconomy #circulareconomy #recycling #science #innovation #entrepreneurship #LEEP

We’re looking forward to hearing from Berkeley Lab Cyclotron Road program fellows Bilen Akuzum, Ph.D. of Aepnus Technology, Behtash Behin-Aein, PhD of Ludwig Computing, Sarah Placella of Root Applied Sciences, Daniel T. Sun of Sunchem, GJ la O' of Tyfast, and Danielle Pascoli of VERDE Nanomaterials at LEEP Demo Day in Denver, Colorado on May 1. They are among 20 entrepreneurial teams from Chain Reaction Innovations, Cyclotron Road, Innovation Crossroads, West Gate pitching their market-ready #cleantech ideas that they’ve refined with us over the last 2 years as a part of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lab-Embedded #Entrepreneurship Program. Get a sneak peek at the featured tech and claim a spot in the audience by April 26: https://lnkd.in/g364Wtrf

More good news for industrial decarbonization from Berkeley Lab Cyclotron Road alumni company Antora Energy and their partner Summit Materials:

On May 1 at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) Demo Day in Denver, six Cyclotron Road entrepreneurial teams will step into the spotlight with an audience of investors and change-makers from across the country. The Berkeley Lab Cyclotron Road team along with our non-profit partner Activate, as well as the LEEP teams at Chain Reaction Innovations, Innovation Crossroads, and West Gate, have worked with promising innovators for 2 years to get their #cleantech ideas market-ready. Find out how you can get involved: https://lnkd.in/g364Wtrf

Congratulations to Berkeley Lab Cyclotron Road program alumni company Brimstone and all 33 laudable projects across the country selected for billions of dollars in award negotiations through the Industrial Demonstration Program managed by the DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations!

This week, Time Inc. launched its inaugural list of America’s Top GreenTech Companies in partnership with Statista. Congratulations to all companies on the list, including companies led by fellows and alumni of the Cyclotron Road program at Berkeley Lab: Antora Energy, Brimstone , Fervo Energy, Tandem PV, and Twelve! https://lnkd.in/gfp3a6G2

Last Monday, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm joined keynote speaker David Hochschild of the California Energy Commission along with Cuberg CEO Shauna McIntyre and Northvolt CEO Peter Carlsson at a ribbon cutting for Cuberg’s newest battery manufacturing facility. Congratulations to 2016 Berkeley Lab Cyclotron Road fellow and Cuberg co-founder and former CEO Richard Wang along with the entire team for this high-performance energy solutions achievement! https://lnkd.in/gnjTdfnd

Last year, companies led by Cyclotron Road program fellowship participants surpassed $1 billion in follow-on funding since the program’s inception in 2015. Throughout 2023, companies led by fellows and alumni secured new #funding from both public and private sources to advance and accelerate the reach and impact of their innovations, including: * Noon Energy raised $28 million in Series A financing. * Liminal raised a $17.5 million Series A2 funding round. * Gradient closed a Series A follow-on round of funding of $9 million, bringing its total Series A funding to $27.5 million, and was selected for a $17.5 million grant under the Defense Production Act by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to expand its heat pump technology. * Tyfast was awarded $2.8 million from the DOE for the Electric Vehicles for American Low-Carbon Living program to build a high-energy density, ultrafast-charging battery with a long cycle life. * Visolis raised an $8 million seed round to make carbon-negative materials. * Tandem PV secured $6 million in Series A financing to build a solar panel manufacturing facility. * Takachar was selected as one of several projects to receive a portion of a $2.35 million contribution from Klarna to the Climate Transformation Fund. * VERDE Nanomaterials received a $50,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps program. * Pheronym won a $1 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the NSF to scale up commercial manufacturing of pest control without chemical pesticides. * Sonera secured $11 million seed funding and introduced its sensing technology to make neural data more accessible. * Calion Technologies and Westwood Aerogel each received $150,000 in #CalSEED awards for early-stage clean energy innovations. * Inlyte Energy raised $8 million to develop grid batteries made with iron and table salt. * Antora Energy received a $4 million grant from the California Energy Commission to scale up its thermophotovoltaic technology. * ReSource Chemical was selected for a $1 million NSF SBIR Phase II grant to advance production of its sustainably sourced monomer to the pilot scale. Blog post: https://lnkd.in/gFstyJgj