Cyclotron Road is a fellowship program for technology innovators at

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, 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.

References

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