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Pilot Success
"LabStart unlocked doors to NREL I wouldn't have been able to open otherwise."
Success Story:
Mars Materials
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Exclusive license to National Renewable Energy Lab intellectual property that allows him to manufacture carbon fiber precursors from CO2
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Within 2 years of LabStart's support, accepted into Breakthrough Energy's Global Fellowship, PRIME Coalition, Greentown Labs, Venture for Climate, and Carbon to Value Initiative
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Raised a $660k pre-seed round, hired a team of seven, and is now constructing a plant to achieve 0.5 Gt/year of CO2 removal at scale
From 2020-2021, LabStart ran a pilot program to validate our fellowship model
Four entrepreneurs commercialized carbon removal technologies at the National Renewable Energy Lab.
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