accelerating the commercialization of lower-carbon technologies

Chevron Studio links entrepreneurs with national lab and university partners to scale up and commercialize innovative, early-stage technologies that have the potential to enable a lower-carbon future.

The program supports entrepreneurs as they source and discover potential technologies and provides technical assistance to enable development and scaling through field trials.

Chevron Studio is a partnership between Chevron Technology Ventures and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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Entrepreneurs can browse intellectual property (IP) from universities and national labs in these technology focus areas.

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Carbon Utilization

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Energy Storage Systems

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Hydrogen and Renewable Energy

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Solutions for a Circular Economy

news and announcements

incubator plays matchmaker with businesses, new energy tech

September 9, 2023

Chevron has teamed up with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to form Chevron Studio, a technology incubator to bridge the gap between exciting new technologies and the market....

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3 houston innovators to know this week

August 7, 2023

Babur Ozden's Aquanta Vision Technologies, a Houston-based climate-tech startup, was selected to participate in the Scale-Up Phase of Chevron Studio, a Houston program that matches entrepreneurs with technologies to turn them into businesses. Aquanta's computer vision software completely automates the identification of methane in optical gas imaging, or OGI....

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Houston startup advances in Chevron’s unique business accelerator

August 1, 2023

A Houston startup that is developing a technology to detect methane leaks has moved on to phase two in Chevron's unique business accelerator. Aquanta Vision Technologies, a Houston-based climate-tech startup, was selected to participate in the scale-up phase of Chevron Studio, a Houston program that matches entrepreneurs with technologies to turn them into businesses....

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