Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Travis Howerton spoke on RegScale’s growth and his journey into entrepreneurship at a virtual “Ask Me Anything” event on to kick off the Innovation Track of Innov865 Week. How do you go from starting an unknown company to raising $20 million in a Series A round in less than a year? It’s not common, but … Read More
Spark Innovation Center Company, Holocene, Secures Frontier CDR Sale
Primary Outlet: Frontier Climate (Source Article) Contact: media@frontierclimate.com Additional Outlets: Bloomberg, CNBC Notes: this is an emerging story, and will be updated throughout the day as news emerges Today marks a significant milestone in Holocene’s journey, as we announce our first-ever carbon removal purchase agreement. Holocene is proud to have secured a purchase agreement via Frontier Climate, an advance market … Read More
Office of Technology Transitions Success Story – SPARK Cleantech Accelerator Bolsters Innovation for Tennessee Region
Energy Program Innovation Clusters Success Story Introduction The University of Tennessee’s (UT) SPARK Innovation Center, part of the Heartland Climate Tech Partnership, supports more than 15 cleantech startups per year. SPARK Innovation Center was first awarded a $50K award from the Office of Technology Transitions’ Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC) in 2020 to launch operations (check out our conversation with their team in … Read More
New UTK Chancellor’s Innovation Fund accepting proposals
Administered by the Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development (ORIED), the new fund is designed to raise awareness, promote innovation, and support entrepreneurship for UTK’s promising innovators. Faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) will be submitting proposals for the new Chancellor’s Innovation Fund (CIF) within the next two weeks. Administered by the Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic … Read More
UT’s Spark Cleantech Accelerator Partners with ORNL to Support Entrepreneurs
The new group of entrepreneur fellows in Innovation Crossroads, a US Department of Energy Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will complete the Spark Cleantech Accelerator, a 12-week program offered by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Spark Innovation Center at the UT Research Park. “By combining the resources of Innovation Crossroads and the Spark Cleantech Accelerator, we are building a stronger program for … Read More
Spark Company, Holocene, named LaunchTN’s Featured Network Partner in ‘The Pitch’
Failing Forward with TAEBC, as told by Anca Timofte, CEO and Co-Founder of Holocene, a company that TAEBC works with: In August 2022, Holocene ended its lease at a laboratory near Stanford, where we did our first tests of a direct air capture technology. We were in need of a new home. After trips to Toronto, Pittsburgh, and New York, we finally … Read More
ORNL, UT’s Spark Cleantech Accelerator partner to support entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur-fellows in Innovation Crossroads will complete the Spark Cleantech Accelerator, a 12-week program offered by the Spark Innovation Center at the University of Tennessee Research Park. Entrepreneur-fellows in Innovation Crossroads, a Department of Energy Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will complete the Spark Cleantech Accelerator, a 12-week program offered by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Spark Innovation Center at the UT … Read More
Capturing More Wind with Breakthroughs in Optimization
Qubit Engineering, a current Spark Innovation Center company at the UT Research Park, was invited to publish an article for ‘WindTech International’ about their technology. “In the wind industry, our collective mission is crystal clear. It is to maximize the energy that we capture at the lowest cost and lowest environmental impact. The amount of progress that has been made … Read More
UT Research Park June 2023 Newsletter
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UT Research Park February 2023 Newsletter
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