2023 Cohort
C2C is delighted to unveil the 8 teams that have been chosen to advance to the cohort phase of our program. These scientists and entrepreneurs have demonstrated serious potential, and we congratulate them on their hard work to get to this level.
During the cohort phase, these teams will conduct hard tech development across test beds at Argonne National Lab, Berkeley Lab, Idaho National Lab, Oak Ridge National Lab, and The Engine, engage in further business mindset training through The Engine's Entrepreneurial Blueprint program, and receive 1:1 mentorship from our Warrior Team experts. The cohort will conclude their program cycle through a pitch and demo showcase at C2C's annual summit next June.
Supported by DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund and administered by the DOE Office of Technology Transitions, C2C is excited to continue helping these teams as they accelerate their innovation to market impact!
Buildings Domain Teams
Q-Sense
Decarbonizing buildings with thermal-lidar sensors and Auto-CuBES
Q Sense is a thermal-LiDAR sensor used to easily and inexpensively improve occupant comfort while saving energy and money for building owners.
Q-Sense seeks to commercialize Automatic point Cloud Building Envelope Segmentation using Machine Learning IP from Oak Ridge National Lab.
Robert Benjamin
Helene Cornell
Aris Hydronics
Clean, efficient, low-cost all-in-one replacement for outdated high-emissions thermal appliances
Aris Hydronics is a cleaner, more efficient, more enjoyable way to heat, cool and provide hot water to buildings in both retrofits and new construction with can cut building energy energy costs in half.
Aris Hydronics seeks to commercialize Integration of Metal Foam Heat Exchangers IP from Oak Ridge National Lab.
Grid Modernization and Energy Storage Domain Teams
Vivian Tran
Better Batteries for Buildings
Berkeley Lab
Better Batteries for Buildings
Novel Flow-Assisted Battery for Long Duration Energy Storage
Property owners with resilience or grid independence as a primary concern: Better Batteries for Buildings provides property owners with more affordable energy storage solutions for both backup power and everyday savings. Our batteries are fire safe and can operate in almost any climate.
Better Batteries for Buildings seeks to commercialize Novel Flow-Assisted Battery for Long Duration Energy Storage IP from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Anurag Kamal
Vince Wong
Electric Fish
Builds & deploys resilient, flexible EV infrastructure to accelerate decarbonization and support community adaptation to climate risks
We build battery-integrated DCFC which can be readily deployed in weeks instead of years for grid-constrained fleet sites, and doubles as a resiliency resource for those sites.
Electric Fish seeks to commercialize
Dispatchable Power And Hybrid Energy Storage Integrated Architecture For Frequency Regulation from Idaho National Lab
Frequency-based Electric Vehicle charger controller system and method of implementing demand response and regulation services to power grid using frequency regulations IP from Argonne National Lab
DER-CAM V5.9 & DER-CAM Desktop V2.5.0 IP from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Alex Makarevich
AmDryve
Cal State East Bay
Kanthi Latha Bhamidipati
AmDryve
Cal State East Bay
AmDryve
Decarbonization of marine and other transportation by introducing a zero-emissions hydrogen-electric powertrain with onboard hydrogen generation
AmPower is building a zero-emissions hydrogen-electric powertrain with onboard hydrogen generation for long-haul, heavy-duty transportation applications.
AmPower seeks to commercialize High-Performance Electrochemical Hydrogen Production IP from Idaho National Lab.
Nate Weger
Calectra
Scientist
Pauliina Meskanen
Calectra
Entrepreneur
Calectra
Conductive ceramic composites for high-temperature thermal energy storage
Calectra electrifies industrial process heat by storing excess renewable electricity as high-temperature heat in our patented bricks and discharging it to industrial processes on demand.
Calectra seeks to commercialize Conductive ceramic composites for high-temperature thermal energy storage IP from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Nuclear Domain Teams
Kevin O'Sullivan
Alpha Nur
Recycling salt wastes from the proliferation-resistant pyro process to generate HALEU and reduce DoE salt waste forms
Alpha Nur recycles highly enriched spent fuel using a more safe, affordable, and weapons resistant electrorefining process to minimize nuclear waste volumes by a factor of twenty and bolstering U.S. advanced nuclear fuel production from 0 to 100% capacity, with institutional support from Argonne and Idaho National Laboratories, the greater DoE, and the University of Chicago.
Better Batteries for Buildings seeks to commercialize
Potentiometric Sensor IP from Idaho National Lab
Conversion of spent uranium oxide fuel into molten salt reactor fuel IP from Argonne National Lab
Renewables Domain Teams
Thomas Boyles
MPH
Entrepreneur
MPH
Homogeneous Ternary Liquid Metal System for Highly Efficient Clean Hydrogen Production from Methane
Clean Hydrogen offers ways to de-carbonise industries and long haul transport where it is difficult to reduce emissions and cost effective long duration energy storage. MPH's novel process has promise to produce clean hydrogen from methane at 80% lower cost and less than 1kg CO2/kg H2. emission.