Informational Webinars
Want to learn more about West Gate and the Cohort 4 application process? Register now for our 1-hour informational webinar.
October 21, 2024, at 12 p.m. MT
The West Gate Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) supports promising innovators as they develop technology concepts into startups that are primed for growth.
Selected innovators are equipped with funding, entrepreneurial training, and technical assistance to speed their commercialization efforts.
To be eligible to participate in West Gate, you must:
- Be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent U.S. resident at time of application
- Have a technical degree (bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate’s)
- Have four-plus years of post-bachelor scientific research, engineering, or technology development experience
- Be a novice startup founder of a U.S.-based company
- If you have incorporated a company, you must have an ownership stake the company, and the company must not have raised more than $2 million in private funding at the time of this application
- Have a technology that:
- Is at least proof-of-concept stage (Technology Readiness Level 3+)
- Aligns with and leverages NREL’s research areas
- Addresses a large societal need that hinders Amer
ican competitiveness or energy efficiency - Falls within the program’s mission space as defined by our sponsors:
- Advanced materials
- Carbon dioxide removal (CDR)
- Carbon capture, utilization, storage (CCUS)
- Circularity (Re-X pathways, circular economy)
- Energy storage, electric grid
- Food, water, energy nexus
- Improving manufacturing efficiency
- Industrial decarbonization
- Lowering building carbon and energy footprints
- Solar energy
- Quantum computing
- Other as determined by West Gate and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Contact us if have questions or experience any issues during the application process.
For more information about West Gate, visit our website.
West Gate Cohort 4 Application
Informational Webinars
Want to learn more about West Gate and the Cohort 4 application process? Register now for our 1-hour informational webinar.
October 21, 2024, at 12 p.m. MT
The West Gate Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) supports promising innovators as they develop technology concepts into startups that are primed for growth.
Selected innovators are equipped with funding, entrepreneurial training, and technical assistance to speed their commercialization efforts.
To be eligible to participate in West Gate, you must:
- Be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent U.S. resident at time of application
- Have a technical degree (bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate’s)
- Have four-plus years of post-bachelor scientific research, engineering, or technology development experience
- Be a novice startup founder of a U.S.-based company
- If you have incorporated a company, you must have an ownership stake the company, and the company must not have raised more than $2 million in private funding at the time of this application
- Have a technology that:
- Is at least proof-of-concept stage (Technology Readiness Level 3+)
- Aligns with and leverages NREL’s research areas
- Addresses a large societal need that hinders Amer
ican competitiveness or energy efficiency - Falls within the program’s mission space as defined by our sponsors:
- Advanced materials
- Carbon dioxide removal (CDR)
- Carbon capture, utilization, storage (CCUS)
- Circularity (Re-X pathways, circular economy)
- Energy storage, electric grid
- Food, water, energy nexus
- Improving manufacturing efficiency
- Industrial decarbonization
- Lowering building carbon and energy footprints
- Solar energy
- Quantum computing
- Other as determined by West Gate and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Contact us if have questions or experience any issues during the application process.
For more information about West Gate, visit our website.