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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] Most of those fellows participated in the Cyclotron Road program.


How Cyclotron Road operates

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Eligibility

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To be eligible for the program, a candidate must[6]

  • have a bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience beyond that degree in scientific research, engineering, or technology development.
  • be the leader of a technical project or company in the physical or biological sciences, or related engineering disciplines and is relevant to the industries that Cyclotron Road focuses on.
  • be leading the commercial development of a hardware-based technology innovation for the first time. (Two co-applicants can apply together.)
  • not have raised more than $2,000,000 in debt or equity funding from non-governmental sources for the proposed project.
  • be able to work in the U.S. for the duration of the fellowship, and have access to a qualified host facility or research laboratory at Berkeley Lab.

In addition, the project or company must still be in development and not yet ready for full-scale product sales at the time of the application deadline.

Selection of fellows

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Cyclotron Road chooses a new cohort of fellows in the Spring each year, and the selected candidates prepare to start their two-year fellowship. Activate Berkeley administers the fellowship application process. [7] Applications are due in the Fall, with an October deadline.[8] The applications that pass an initial blinded selection process proceed to a technical review and video interviews. The top applicants are named finalists and deliver a virtual pitch to the Activate community. In March, Activate works with sponsors to award the fellowships to successful applicants.

Support for fellows

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Cyclotron Road supports fellows in several ways during their two-year fellowship term as they develop their promising technology concepts into potential products. Fellows receive:[8]

  • two years of living stipend, health insurance, a relocation stipend, and a travel allowance.
  • $100,000 of research funding
  • access to scientific user facilities at Berkeley Lab
  • mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs
  • a curriculum designed for science-based startups
  • inclusion in an extensive network of advisors and a community of current and alumni fellows

Notable alumni and their companies

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The following table lists some notable alumni from the first four cohorts who are now in leadership positions with the companies that they founded or co-founded.[9]

Name and Cohort Technology Sector Position & company Recent News
2015 Cohort
Etosha Cave & Kendra Kuhl Carbon transformation CSO & CTO, Twelve[10] Chan Zuckerberg Initiative[11][12]
Raymond Weitekamp Additive manufacturing CEO, polySpectra[13] Additive Manufacturing[14]
Deepak Dugar Biomanufacturing CEO, Visolis[15] Forbes[16]
2016 Cohort
Richard Wang Energy storage CEO, Cuberg[17] Reuters[18]
Peter Frischmann Energy storage CEO, Sepion[19] C&EN[20]
Andrew Hsieh Energy storage CEO, Liminal[21] Automotive News[22]
Colin Bailie & Chris Eberspacher Photovoltaics CEO & Director, Tandem PV[23] Bay Area Business Journal[24]
2017 Cohort
Sarah Richardson Biotechnology CEO, MicroByre[25] C&EN[26]
David Bierman Energy storage CPO, Antora Energy[27] CNBC[28], Canary Media[29]
Lance Brockway & Dave Walther Metamaterials CTO & President, Nelumbo[30] Cooling Post[31]
Vince Romanin Air conditioning CEO, Gradient[32] Wired[33]
2018 Cohort
Tim Latimer & Jack Norbeck Geothermal CEO & CTO, Fervo Energy[34] New York Times[35], Washington Post[36]
Andrew Ponec & Justin Briggs Energy storage CEO & COO, Antora Energy[27] CNBC[28], Canary Media[29]
Christopher Graves Energy storage CEO, Noon Energy[37] Canary Media[38]

References

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  1. ^ "Cyclotron Road". Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program". U.S. Department of Energy. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Introducing Activate: Expanding Cyclotron Road's model". Activate.org. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Mission". Activate.org. Retrieved March 10, 2023.
  5. ^ "Impact". Activate. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
  6. ^ "What we look for". Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Activate Berkeley". Retrieved March 9, 2023.}
  8. ^ a b "How to Apply". Cyclotron Road. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
  9. ^ "Cohorts". Cyclotron Road. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  10. ^ "Twelve: The carbon transformation company".
  11. ^ "Putting Carbon Dioxide to Use: Meet Twelve Founder Etosha Cave". Chan Zuckerberg Initative. February 10, 2022.
  12. ^ "Twelve to Deploy World's First Industrial Scale Carbon Transformation Platform". Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. June 29, 2022.
  13. ^ "Rugged Resins for Additive Manufacturing". polySpectra. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  14. ^ "Polyspectra launches world's most rugged resin for desktop 3D printers". Additive Manufacturing. ASME. February 1, 2023.
  15. ^ "Rugged photopolymer resins". Visolis. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  16. ^ Cumbers, John (January 11, 2023). "Biomanufacturing startup Visolis has raised $8 million to make carbon negative materials". Forbes.
  17. ^ "Technology". Cuberg. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  18. ^ "Swedish battery maker Northvolt buys U.S. startup Cuberg". Reuters. March 20, 2021.
  19. ^ "About us". Sepion. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  20. ^ "10 Start-ups to Watch". C&EN. American Chemical Society. November 4, 2022.
  21. ^ "Solutions". Liminal. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  22. ^ "EV battery inspection startup Liminal raises $17.5 million". Automotive News. February 26, 2023.
  23. ^ "About". TandemPV. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  24. ^ Herrera, Sonya (April 20, 2022). "A Silicon Valley startup is pioneering a way to make more efficient solar cells". Bay Area Business Journal.
  25. ^ "Who we are". MicroByre. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  26. ^ Zhang, Cici (March 8, 2020). "Trailblazers, Synthetic Biology". C&EN. American Chemical Society.
  27. ^ a b "Technology". Antora Energy. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  28. ^ a b Clifford, Catherine (February 16, 2022). "Bill Gates and Chris Sacca invest in energy storage start-up Antora to help heavy industry go green". CNBC.
  29. ^ a b Spector, Julian (April 13, 2022). "This startup's energy storage tech is 'essentially a giant toaster'". Canary Media.
  30. ^ "Solutions". Nelumbo. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  31. ^ "Surface Innovator Nelumbo Raises $14M". Cooling Post. April 15, 2020.
  32. ^ "About us". Gradient. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  33. ^ Weiss, Sabrina (December 21, 2021). "How to Stay Cool Without Warming the Planet". Wired.
  34. ^ "About us". Fervo Energy. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  35. ^ Krauss, Clifford (February 27, 2023). "As Oil Companies Stay Lean, Workers Move to Renewable Energy". New York Times.
  36. ^ Osaka, Shannon (February 23, 2023). "How this company plans to use Earth's heat to cool the planet". Washington Post.
  37. ^ "Storing renewable energy in a new type of battery". Noon Energy. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  38. ^ Spector, Julian (January 18, 2023). "Noon Energy raises $28M for a whole new kind of long-duration storage". Canary Media.
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