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

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

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

The climate technology focus of Groundstar is done under the Metasorbex brand, and the Nashville-registered company is one of 127 start-ups selected as a member of the “2023 MassChallenge Early Stage Growth Cohort” and also Venture For ClimateTech. Last week was a good one for MetasorbexTM Corporation. When it participated in the inaugural “Spark Cleantech Accelerator” last summer, the company was one of several … Read More

June 15 proved to be a good day for one of the region’s rapidly-growing start-ups and one of its research enterprises. SkyNano LLC, a member of the inaugural cohort of the “Innovation Crossroads” program and a graduate of the Spark Innovation Center, has just secured a nearly $3.5 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), while Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) … Read More

The funding is focused on adapting the company’s innovative Lithium-ion battery safety technology, SAFe Impact Resistant Electrolyte, to enhance the performance and survivability of Unmanned Ground Vehicles and artificial intelligence-driven surveillance systems in extreme temperature environments for the Department of the Air Force. Safire Technology Group Inc., a venture-backed company developing and manufacturing Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery safety technology, has been … Read More

Spark Innovation Center Company and current member of Cohort 6 of the “Innovation Crossroads” program executes agreement for an innovative and sustainable chemistry developed for capturing carbon dioxide from air. An innovative and sustainable chemistry developed by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for capturing carbon dioxide from air has been licensed to Holocene, a Knoxville-based start-up focused on designing … Read More

The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator’s Cleantech Debt Fund will now be open to Tennessee start-ups thanks to partnership with the Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council and UT’s Spark Innovation Center. The Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council (TAEBC) and the University of Tennessee’s Spark Innovation Center have partnered with the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) to provide Tennessee cleantech start-ups with additional sources of debt capital to … Read More

Spark Innovator Graduate, Don Derosa, head of Eonix, has been nominated by CSS Design Awards for their company site’s innovative UI/X design. CSS Design Awards is an international web award for solo designers, studios, & agencies that was founded in 2009. The award is backed by a “world-class JPanel of expert judges plus a vast community of awesome professionals” that … Read More