Our program empowers entrepreneurial scientists to take their innovation to impact by offering knowledge, resources, and connections. Cyclotron Road is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), which partners with Activate to provide a world-class fellowship.

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Our program provides fellows with a living stipend, research funding, entrepreneurial training in collaboration with our non-profit partner Activate, and access to the multidisciplinary expertise and facilities at Berkeley Lab.

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Since 2015, Cyclotron Road fellows have advanced 74 companies, raised over $1.85 billion in follow-on funding, hired over 1400 employees, and introduced new products across industries, including energy, agriculture, and manufacturing.

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Learn more about today’s innovators tackling the challenges of tomorrow.

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Our program connects participants with Berkeley Lab’s experts in a wide range of scientific disciplines and access to the Lab’s advanced research capabilities.  We manage dedicated, programmatic lab space with a variety of existing resources, which can complement collaborator and User Facility lab spaces.