Organization:Cyclotron Road

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Cyclotron Road is a fellowship program for technology innovators at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab.[1] Cyclotron Road supports entrepreneurial scientists as they advance their own technology projects that have the promise of significant global impact. The core support for the program comes from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, through the Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program.[2] Most of the technologies developed by Cyclotron Road fellows are designed to accelerate the transition to a decarbonized economy.

Berkeley Lab manages the program in close partnership with Activate, a nonprofit organization established to scale the Cyclotron Road fellowship model to a greater number of innovators around the U.S. and the world.[3] The Activate website describes this connection explicitly: "Activate’s entrepreneurial fellowship model originated at Cyclotron Road, a division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and founding Activate partner."[4] Activate Fellows have founded companies have raised more $1.3 billion in follow-on funding and created more than 1200 jobs.[5]

Notable alumni and their companies

The following table lists some notable alumni from the first four cohorts who are now in leadership positions, usually with the companies that they founded or co-founded.[6]

Name and Cohort Technology Sector Position & company Recent News
2015 Cohort
Etosha Cave & Kendra Kuhl Carbon transformation CSO & CTO, Twelve[7] Chan Zuckerberg Initiative[8][9]
Raymond Weitekamp Additive manufacturing CEO, polySpectra[10] Additive Manufacturing[11]
Deepak Dugar Biomanufacturing CEO, Visolis[12] Forbes[13]
2016 Cohort
Richard Wang Energy storage CEO, Cuberg[14] Reuters[15]
Peter Frischmann Energy storage CEO, Sepion[16] C&EN[17]
Andrew Hsieh Energy storage CEO, Liminal[18] Automotive News[19]
Colin Bailie & Chris Eberspacher Photovoltaics CEO & Director, Tandem PV[20] Bay Area Business Journal[21]
2017 Cohort
Sarah Richardson Biotechnology CEO, MicroByre[22] C&EN[23]
David Bierman Energy storage CPO, Antora Energy[24] CNBC,[25] Canary Media[26]
Lance Brockway & Dave Walther Metamaterials CTO & President, Nelumbo[27] Cooling Post[28]
Vince Romanin Air conditioning CEO, Gradient[29] Wired[30]
2018 Cohort
Tim Latimer & Jack Norbeck Geothermal CEO & CTO, Fervo Energy[31] New York Times,[32] Washington Post[33]
Andrew Ponec & Justin Briggs Energy storage CEO & COO, Antora Energy[24] CNBC,[25] Canary Media[26]
Christopher Graves Energy storage CEO, Noon Energy[34] Canary Media[35]
Jill Fuss Technology entrepreneurship Managing Director, Activate Berkeley Cision[36]

References

  1. ↑ "Cyclotron Road". Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. https://cyclotronroad.lbl.gov/. 
  2. ↑ "Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program". U.S. Department of Energy. https://www.energy.gov/eere/amo/lab-embedded-entrepreneurship-program. 
  3. ↑ "Introducing Activate: Expanding Cyclotron Road's model". https://www.activate.org/news/ilan-letter. 
  4. ↑ "Mission". https://www.activate.org/mission. 
  5. ↑ "Impact". https://www.activate.org/impact. 
  6. ↑ "Cohorts". Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. https://cyclotronroad.lbl.gov/cohorts. 
  7. ↑ "Twelve: The carbon transformation company". https://www.twelve.co/. 
  8. ↑ "Putting Carbon Dioxide to Use: Meet Twelve Founder Etosha Cave". Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. February 10, 2022. https://chanzuckerberg.com/blog/etosha-cave-carbon-transformation/. 
  9. ↑ "Twelve to Deploy World's First Industrial Scale Carbon Transformation Platform". Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. June 29, 2022. https://chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/twelve-to-deploy-worlds-first-industrial-scale-carbon-transformation-platform/. 
  10. ↑ "Rugged Resins for Additive Manufacturing". https://polyspectra.com/. 
  11. ↑ "Polyspectra launches world's most rugged resin for desktop 3D printers". ASME. February 1, 2023. https://additivemanufacturing.com/2023/02/05/polyspectra-launches-worlds-most-rugged-resin-for-desktop-3d-printers/. 
  12. ↑ "Rugged photopolymer resins". https://visolisbio.com/. 
  13. ↑ Cumbers, John (January 11, 2023). "Biomanufacturing startup Visolis has raised $8 million to make carbon negative materials". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/johncumbers/2023/01/11/biomanufacturing-startup-visolis-has-raised-8-million-to-make-carbon-negative-materials/. 
  14. ↑ "Technology". https://cuberg.net/technology. 
  15. ↑ "Swedish battery maker Northvolt buys U.S. startup Cuberg". Reuters. March 20, 2021. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northvolt-cuberg/swedish-battery-maker-northvolt-buys-u-s-startup-cuberg-idUSKBN2B2152. 
  16. ↑ "About us". https://sepiontechnologies.com/about. 
  17. ↑ "10 Start-ups to Watch". C&EN (American Chemical Society). November 4, 2022. https://cen.acs.org/business/start-ups/CENs-2022-10-Start-Ups-Watch/100/i39. 
  18. ↑ "Solutions". https://liminalinsights.com/solutions. 
  19. ↑ "EV battery inspection startup Liminal raises $17.5 million". Automotive News. February 26, 2023. https://www.autonews.com/Reprint-AN23008LiminalInsights. 
  20. ↑ "About". https://tandempv.com/about. 
  21. ↑ Herrera, Sonya (April 20, 2022). "A Silicon Valley startup is pioneering a way to make more efficient solar cells". Bay Area Business Journal. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/inno/stories/news/2022/04/20/solar-panel-startup-raises-funds-for-pilot-line.html. 
  22. ↑ "Who we are". https://www.microbyre.com/who-we-are/. 
  23. ↑ Zhang, Cici (March 8, 2020). "Trailblazers, Synthetic Biology". C&EN (American Chemical Society). https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/synthetic-biology/Sarah-Richardson-on-prestige-publishing-Luckily-I-dont-give-a-crap-about-that/98/i9#. 
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 "Technology". https://antoraenergy.com/technology. 
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Clifford, Catherine (February 16, 2022). "Bill Gates and Chris Sacca invest in energy storage start-up Antora to help heavy industry go green". CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/16/bill-gates-chris-sacca-invest-50-million-in-antora-energy.html. 
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Spector, Julian (April 13, 2022). "This startup's energy storage tech is 'essentially a giant toaster'". Canary Media. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-storage/this-startups-energy-storage-tech-is-essentially-a-giant-toaster. 
  27. ↑ "Solutions". https://www.nelumbo.io/#solutions. 
  28. ↑ "Surface Innovator Nelumbo Raises $14M". Cooling Post. April 15, 2020. https://www.coolingpost.com/world-news/surface-innovator-nelumbo-raises-14m/. 
  29. ↑ "About us". https://www.gradientcomfort.com/pages/about-us. 
  30. ↑ Weiss, Sabrina (December 21, 2021). "How to Stay Cool Without Warming the Planet". Wired. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/aircon-climate-co2-emissions. 
  31. ↑ "About us". https://fervoenergy.com/about/. 
  32. ↑ Krauss, Clifford (February 27, 2023). "As Oil Companies Stay Lean, Workers Move to Renewable Energy". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/business/energy-environment/oil-gas-renewable-energy-jobs.html. 
  33. ↑ Osaka, Shannon (February 23, 2023). "How this company plans to use Earth’s heat to cool the planet". Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/02/23/geothermal-direct-air-capture-fervo/. 
  34. ↑ "Storing renewable energy in a new type of battery". https://www.noon.energy/. 
  35. ↑ Spector, Julian (January 18, 2023). "Noon Energy raises $28M for a whole new kind of long-duration storage". Canary Media. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/long-duration-energy-storage/noon-energy-raises-28m-for-a-whole-new-kind-of-long-duration-storage. 
  36. ↑ "Activate welcomes 39 new activate fellows whose innovations can decarbonize industries and build a cleaner, safer society". Cision. June 7, 2022. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/activate-welcomes-39-new-activate-fellows-whose-innovations-can-decarbonize-industries-and-build-a-cleaner-safer-society-301562876.html. 



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