Cyclotron Road is a fellowship program for technology innovators at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab. 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. 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. 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." Activate Fellows have founded companies have raised more $1.3 billion in follow-on funding and created more than 1200 jobs. 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. Name and CohortTechnology SectorPosition & companyRecent News2015 Cohort Etosha Cave & Kendra Kuhl Carbon transformationCSO & CTO, Twelve Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Raymond WeitekampAdditive manufacturingCEO, polySpectra Additive Manufacturing Deepak DugarBiomanufacturingCEO, Visolis Forbes Marcus LehmannRenewable EnergyCEO, CalWaveForbes2016 Cohort Richard Wang Energy storageCEO, Cuberg Reuters Peter FrischmannEnergy storageCEO, Sepion C&EN Andrew HsiehEnergy storageCEO, Liminal Automotive News Colin Bailie & Chris EberspacherPhotovoltaicsCEO & Director, Tandem PV Bay Area Business Journal 2017 Cohort Sarah Richardson BiotechnologyCEO, MicroByre C&EN David Bierman Energy storageCPO, Antora Energy CNBC, Canary Media Lance Brockway & Dave Walther MetamaterialsCTO & President, Nelumbo Cooling Post Vince Romanin Air conditioningCEO, Gradient Wired 2018 Cohort Tim Latimer & Jack Norbeck GeothermalCEO & CTO, Fervo Energy New York Times, Washington Post Andrew Ponec & Justin Briggs Energy storageCEO & COO, Antora EnergyCNBC, Canary MediaChristopher Graves Energy storageCEO, Noon Energy Canary Media Jill Fuss Technology entrepreneurshipManaging Director, Activate Berkeley Cision
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