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Chevron Studio
Organization Name
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Chevron Studio seeks experienced U.S.-based entrepreneurs interested in starting a new company around Chevron-curated IP developed at Technology Partner universities and national labs.
Eligible Applicant
Individual
Description

Chevron Studio is a program in partnership with Chevron Technology Ventures and NREL. The program offers entrepreneurs a chance to develop lower carbon technologies from national labs and universities and turn them into thriving startup companies through three phases of support.

Applications for the next cohort are open now and close September 30, on 2025.


Chevron Studio currently supports technologies in the following focus areas:


* Carbon utilization

* Energy storage systems

* Hydrogen and renewable energy

* Solutions for a circular economy

* Wireless power

* Robotics

Entrepreneurs are selected twice a year to join a Chevron Studio cohort. During the program there are three phases. In the Discovery Phase, entrepreneurs write business commercialization and scale-up plans around the technologies they chose from the curated list of intellectual property (IP), available on the program application as well as the Browse IP page. If selected to continue in the program, entrepreneurs form a company and receive funding in the Scale-Up Phase, with the possibility for further funding in the final Field Trial Phase.

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