The graduation brings LEEP’s total to 239 founders since the program launched roughly a decade ago. Those alumni have collectively raised more than $6 billion and created about 4,000 jobs.
After two years of navigating the national labs, undergoing intense entrepreneurial programming, and building a functional business from the ground up, 23 founders are stepping out of the fellowship and back into the proverbial “real world” to make economic impact across the United States.
In 2024, these 23 innovators entered the Department of Energy (DOE) Lab Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) with an idea. Today, they are all graduating from the program with a fully formed company.