Caltech Rocket Fund 2025

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Trainings & Fellowships Grant Tech & IT

Overview

Enter to win up to $100,000 for commercial prototyping and customer demonstrations.

WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY

Grant Size: $25,000 to $100,000 non-equity grants
Receive award funding within six months
Work with California’s biggest utilities and their funding programs
Connect with industry product-to-market experts, and early investors
Access voucher grant programs for lab testing, product validation through Rocket Fund channel partnerships with Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), IN2 Wells Fargo, NREL, Shell Game Changer program, as well as other support from Aditya Birla and Halliburton Labs accelerator programs
Funding priorities: initial prototype design; prototype engineering and testing; equipment and parts purchase; installation; software development; certification and lab testing; and consulting, contract servicing for process engineering, scaling up and manufacturing
Sustainability and Cleantech tracks now broadened focus on ag and food, water, software platforms and industrial decarbonization see Rocket Fund website https://rocketfund.caltech.edu/apply