Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast

Five of the start-ups from Cohort 2022 of the “Innovation Crossroads” program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be among 21 presenting on May 1 at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) “Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) Demo Day” in Denver. They are:

• Agriwater Corporation, founded by Bianca Bailey, and developing an innovative mobile wastewater treatment system to purify livestock manure into clean water.
• Ateios Systems, founded by Rajan Kumar that is developing innovative coating and processing technologies necessary to scale solid-state batteries.
• Captis Aire LLC, launched by Kim Tutin to capture air pollutants from wood product manufacturing sites.
• Holocene Climate Corporation, co-founded by Keeton Ross to design chemical plants that efficiently remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
• Vitriform3D Inc., co-founded by Alex Stiles to utilize recycled glass as a feedstock in powder bed 3D printing.

Each of the companies will deliver a short pitch during the all-afternoon event that begins at 12:30 p.m. MDT. The Demo Day will also feature a keynote speech by a graduate of one of the LEEP programs.

LEEP now involves five programs supported by six DOE national laboratories. In addition to ORNL, the other programs are:

• “Chain Reaction Innovations” at Argonne National Laboratory outside of Chicago, IL;
• “Cyclotron Road” at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA;
• “New Mexico LEEP,” a joint effort involving Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories; and
• “West Gate” at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

 

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