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
Glass bottles tossed in the trash are finding new life thanks to a collaboration between the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Vitriform3D, an advanced manufacturing company. Together, they found a way to turn old glass into new products using 3D printing. “There’s so much glass going into landfills in the U.S.,” said
Skuld will work on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Rubble to Rockets (R2R) Program, which turns scrap metal into missile components. Skuld will help with alloy design, characterization, and casting. Using AI, Skuld will analyze microstructure, determine properties, and perform spark testing. Spark testing is literally grinding metal to see what it is composed of. The company then hopes
Now in its second year, the collaborative initiative pairs senior marketing students with deep-tech founders to deliver the real-world campaign assets and business best practices needed to help these young companies scale. On Tuesday evening, business leaders, innovators and students gathered for a special edition of Innovation Crossroads. All semester long, a handful of Innovation Crossroads founders
Learn how Lumios Materials’ Founder, Evan Stacy is addressing bottlenecks in carbon fiber production and making it more accessible for various applications. When Evan Stacy was knee-deep in his Ph.D. program at the University of Southern Mississippi, a side project evolved into tackling one of the biggest bottlenecks in carbon fiber production. Today, he’s commercializing that technology through
The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) awards recognize outstanding achievements in the successful transfer of technology from laboratory to industry. The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory was recently awarded six FLC awards, including the 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, for technology commercialized by Element3 that enables the extraction of lithium from oil and gas wastewater. Lithium
Ateios Systems has closed $7.25 million in Series A funding to scale production of its next-generation lithium-ion battery electrodes and expand supply to global battery manufacturers. The round was led by TitletownTech, with participation from existing investors Elevate Ventures, VisionTech Partners, Good Growth Capital, Lateral Capital, Techstars, and Keshif Ventures, as well as new investors JHH
Ateios Systems and Kodak today announced the expansion of the Ateios RaiCore™ battery electrode platform to three of the world’s most widely used cathode chemistries, Lithium Cobalt Oxide (LCO), Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP), and Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC), while earning third-party verifications for eliminating perfluoralkoxy alkane (PFA) forever chemicals.
Nth Cycle, the revolutionary critical metals refining company, has signed a binding 10-year agreement with Trafigura, a market leader in the global commodities industry, valued at approximately $1.1 billion USD. The agreement was signed as the Trump Administration hosted government and business leaders in Tokyo to discuss energy security at the first Indo-Pacific Energy Security Ministerial