Visit national laboratory program websites for more information and to apply.
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office
September 4, 2024
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is excited to announce that application portals are now open for the Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) 2025 Cohort, a two-year funded fellowship that helps the next generation of cleantech entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life.
Now approaching its tenth year, this successful program embeds participants at a national laboratory where they receive funding to support collaborative research and development with lab scientists, gain mentorship and entrepreneurship training, and become part of a valuable networking ecosystem that helps eliminate hurdles traditionally faced by early-stage cleantech startups.
Since the program launched its first cohort in 2015, LEEP has supported 203 fellows in partnership with four national labs and their corresponding nodes: Argonne National Laboratory’s Chain Reaction Innovations, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Cyclotron Road, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s West Gate, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Innovation Crossroads.
LEEP alumni have gone on to commercialize game-changing technologies for our clean energy economy, with 153 news businesses started, 2,343 jobs created, and reaching $2.73 billion in follow-on funding.
Visit each LEEP node website for more information on how to apply, information on upcoming webinars for each node, and links to each program’s application portal:
Cyclotron Road at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, California)
Innovation Crossroads at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, Illinois)
West Gate at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colorado)
Interested participants can apply to more than one LEEP node.
LEEP is managed and funded by DOE’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office with additional funding from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and other offices throughout DOE.