Early-Stage Technology R&D (approx. TRL 1-5)

LG Chem Global Innovation Challenge – Sustainable Solutions

For the LG Chem Global Innovation Challenge – Sustainable Solutions, we are on the lookout for game-changing players with disruptive technologies that are ready to scale their impact and leverage the network, expertise, and funding of Korea’s largest chemical company. Benefits: leverage and access LG Chem’s global network, various types of funding with the size of 9 billion USD up to 2025 in total, collaboration opportunities with a variety of experts to scale up your technology, work with LG Chem’s both Business and R&D departments.

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Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery SBIR/STTR (MINER SBIR/STTR)

The Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER) program’s aim is to support the development of commercial-ready technologies that give the U.S. net-zero or net negative emissions pathway toward increased domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements required for the transition to clean energy.
This SBIR from ARPA-E aims to: (1) decrease comminution energy by 50% compared to state-of-the-art; (2) increase yield of energy-relevant minerals by reducing unrecovered energy-relevant minerals in the tailings by 50% compared to state-of-the-art; and (3) enabling the negative emissions production of key minerals by sequestering >10 wt.% CO2e per metric ton of ore processed; and (4) develop methods to model carbonation potential, delineate petrophysical changes from carbonation, and quantify carbonate and energy-relevant mineralization in CO2-reactive geologic formations.”
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Urban Integrated Field Laboratories (IFL)

Apply to a new program from the DOE related to community-scale climate research. Research will focus on three tightly related scientific topics—atmospheric and environmental observations; modeling of climate change and impacts across urban regions; and simulating the climate benefits of deploying climate solutions and technologies in historically underserved communities across the U.S.

Urban IFLs will require multi-disciplinary teams that bring together the skills and talents of investigators from multiple research institutions. Academic and nonprofit research institutions, national laboratories, other federal agencies, and the private sector are all eligible to apply as Urban IFL team members. The lead organization of each proposed Urban IFL team must be an academic institution or a national laboratory. Locally-based team members and minority serving institutions (MSI) are expected to have significant roles in each Urban IFL.

Funding is to be awarded competitively and is expected to be in the form of five-year awards. The Department anticipates that $17 million will be available for this program in 2022. Requests should not exceed $5,000,000 per year.

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Waste Feedstock and Conversion R&D Funding

This FOA (Funding Opportunity Announcement) supports two priority areas in the Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) research and development (R&D) portfolio. The first of these priority areas addresses new strategies for energy and resource recovery from waste streams.  The second priority area addressed by this FOA targets improved organisms and inorganic catalysts.

Apply to any of the following topics: (1) MSW Feedstock Technologies, (2) Robust Microbial Cells, (3) Robust Catalytic Processes, and (4) Community Scale Resource and Energy Recovery from Organic Wastes.

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Centrepolis C3 Accelerator

C3 is a growth stage accelerator focused on identifying best-in-class proven technologies globally, connecting them to Michigan partners that can benefit by deploying these innovations and supporting the scaling of these businesses in Michigan. With a $2.6M seed fund (We expect this seed fund to grow) this program is funding the commercialization and demonstration of renewable energy, energy efficiency, emission reduction, clean air and water, recycling, and upcycling technologies. The program offers equity-free, zero-interest $50,000 investments to support commercialization efforts. As our seed fund grows, we expect the investment to as well.

Accelerator services include product design, engineering, prototyping, testing, and validation, along with pilot and demonstration project cost-sharing, assistance from experts-in-residence, design for manufacturability assessments, supply chain development support and go-to-market support services. The Accelerator will also help in applying for federal grants and connections to universities, national laboratories, customers, strategic partners, and investors. Learn more about Chere.

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New Mexico LEEP

New Mexico LEEP matches entrepreneurs with seed capital, a large network of mentors, customers, and investors and the unique expertise and resources of Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories over a two year period. An application or product idea must fit into one or more of the 5 technology areas: advanced materials, AI & advanced computing, biotechnology, space systems, or energy transition. You must be willing to relocate to New Mexico for the duration of the 2-year program.

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New York: NY Green Bank

NY Green Bank is a State-sponsored, specialized financial entity working with the private sector to increase investments into New York’s clean energy markets, creating a more efficient, reliable and sustainable energy system.

NY Green Bank is a cost-effective and complementary component of New York State’s portfolio of clean energy programs. NY Green Bank works with clients and counterparties to address and alleviate specific gaps and barriers in current clean energy capital markets through a variety of approaches and transaction structures. Since inception, NY Green Bank has utilized innovative approaches to financing structures to mobilize clean energy activity and private capital in New York State, reducing the need for further ratepayer funding.

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Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI)

Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF Program seeking to stimulate human-centered fundamental and potentially transformative research aimed at strengthening America’s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad quality of life improvement. Strong, reliable, and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, strengthens communities, promotes equal opportunity, protects the natural environment, enhances national security, and fuels American leadership. Achieving these objectives requires the integration of expertise from across all science and engineering disciplines. SAI focuses on how fundamental knowledge about human reasoning and decision-making, governance, and social and cultural processes enables the building and maintenance of effective infrastructure that improves lives and society and builds on advances in technology and engineering. Successful projects will represent a convergence of expertise in one or more SBE sciences deeply integrated with other disciplines to support substantial and potentially pathbreaking, fundamental research applied to strengthening a specific and focal infrastructure.

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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN MAGNETIC FUSION ENERGY SCIENCES ON INTERNATIONAL TOKAMAKS

The DOE SC program in Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for experimental research in magnetic fusion energy sciences conducted on international tokamak facilities. Selected awards will be supported under the FES Burning Plasma Science: Long Pulse Tokamak program area, which supports U.S staff working in collaboration with international tokamak programs to explore critical science and technology issues at the frontiers of magnetic fusion energy research.

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Miller Center Accelerator

The Miller Center Accelerator is designed for high-potential social enterprises with proven traction, working on women’s economic empowerment, climate resilience, or the intersection of both. This 6-month accelerator program combines mentorship with structured curriculum to help social entrepreneurs address gaps in their impact model, business model, and growth strategies, and ultimately move them along the path toward growth, significant scale, and investment.

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Third Derivative 2022 Cohort

Bring your innovation to market faster with the best-networked climate tech accelerator. We’re here to help you bridge critical finance and resource gaps by uniting and aligning the world’s most promising climate tech startups—like you—with D3’s network of committed investors, corporate partners, market experts, and mentors. We’re looking for world-changing climate tech startups addressing billion-dollar markets in the areas of hard science, hardware, software, and business model innovation. If accepted, you’ll take part in our virtual, 18-month-long accelerator program.

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Ray of Hope Prize

The Ray of Hope Prize identifies the top nature-inspired startups in the world and fosters their growth by providing sustainable business training, communications support, and opportunities for non-dilutive funding—the top being a $100,000 equity-free prize. Armed with nature’s billions of years of research and development, these startups are uniquely suited to address critical environmental and social issues at scale.

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