Twelve energy start-ups that have been embedded in U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories will showcase their energy technologies for potential investors and the energy community at the Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) Demo Day 2019, to be held from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, at the Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago.
For the first time, innovators from all three of DOE’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs will participate. CRI, which is located at Argonne, will have six teams presenting, along with four teams from Innovation Crossroads at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and two teams from Cyclotron Road at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Argonne employees are welcome to attend the event, though prior registration is required. Those who are interested but cannot attend in person are encouraged to watch a livestream of the event. Streaming will begin at 6 p.m. Central.
If you have questions, contact chainreaction@anl.gov.
The CRI startups that will be showcased are:
Accelerate Wind
Innovator: Erika Boeing, Founder and CEO
Focus: Affordable distributed wind energy generation
Argonne host principal investigator: Aaron Greco, Applied Materials
Aeromutable Corporation
Innovator: David Manosalvas-Kjono, Co-founder and CEO
Focus: Active response to aerodynamic changes
Argonne host principal investigator: Thomas Wallner, Energy Systems
Iris Light Technologies, Inc.
Innovator: Chad Husko, Founder and CEO
Focus: Scalable lasers for the connected world
Argonne host principal investigator: Jeff Guest, Nanoscience and Technology
Jolt Energy Storage Technologies
Innovator: Tom Guarr, Co-founder and CTO
Focus: Organic batteries for grid storage
Argonne host principal investigator: Andy Jansen, Chemical Sciences and Engineering
Mesodyne
Innovator: Veronika Stelmakh, Co-founder and CEO
Focus: Long-endurance, portable power for remote applications
Argonne host principal investigator: Doug Longman, Energy Systems
Volexion, Inc.
Innovator: “Ted” Jung Woo Seo, Director of R&D and Founding Member
Focus: Drop-in nano-coatings for better batteries
Argonne host principal investigator: Joe Libera, Applied Materials