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memQ, a quantum technology startup, achieved critical milestones with the support of two DOE programs: Energy I-Corps and the Lab- Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP).

Ugur Mertyurek, a nuclear scientist from ORNL, participated in Energy I-Corps Cohort 17 funded by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy and used the program to pivot the main value proposition of his mutual information analytics technology.

Engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Paducah Site are making strides in implementing new technology by using drones to survey the site’s sanitary landfill.

This team from National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) participated in Cohort 4 as team HALO to use Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy (HVPE) to fabricate high performance solar cells at a lower cost.

DOE’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP), managed by AMMTO, welcomed its 2024 cohort to its headquarters in Washington, D.C. to kick off their two-year fellowships

Kyle Guin, CEO and co-founder of VastVision Technologies, has a unique distinction—he has participated in the Energy I-Corps program three times. On his third go-round, he mentored a team AND successfully licensed the technology they developed.

National Lab researchers from across the country gathered in Golden, Colorado for the kickoff of Energy-I Corps' 19th cohort, an immersive two-month entrepreneurial training program to accelerate the commercialization for energy technologies in the lab.

Team ducted fuel injection participated in Cohort 13 and has since advanced their technology readiness level through a Technology Commercialization Fund award and formed a CRADA from partners from Energy I-Corps.

After participating in Energy I-Corps Cohort 10, the UTS team was able to refine its technology and overarching approach, ultimately launching a startup company.

Savannah River National Laboratory made its debut participation in the OTT Energy I-Corps program with the “Controlled Equilibrium Catalytic Isotope Exchange” team, or CECIE.