New Mexico LEEP wants you!
Rapidly transition from the lab to the marketplace in confidence with immersive training and intensive technology validation. New Mexico LEEP’s two-year fellowship provides access to customers looking for breakthrough technologies solving our nation’s toughest challenges.
Benefits include:
- Two Year Stipend ranging from $90,000 - $120,000 per year, plus health insurance and a travel allowance to enable you to focus on your product development full-time.
- Rigorous Mentorship to help develop priorities, provide guidance, and make connections to our broader network of advisors, industry experts, and investors.
- Vital research tools, equipment, and facilities, as well as collaborate with world-renowned scientists, engineers, and technologists at one of our host laboratories.
- Gain funding early by learning to perfect your pitch and connect with our global network of both federal and private investors.
- Advance your technology into a proof of concept, prototype, or product launch through a network of experts and business resources specific to your market sector.
- A startup curriculum including sessions on core business and product development concepts, VIP speakers, skill development workshops, and shared learning from other fellows and alumni.
Apply Now!
Application period for cohort 2 closes on April 25th, 2022
Selection Criteria:
- An application or product idea that fits into one or more of our 5 technology areas:
advanced materials, AI & advanced computing, biotechnology, space systems, or energy transition. - Intention to transition your technology into a product.
- Early customer discovery and interest in your solution.
- Ability to commit to New Mexico LEEP for two years.
- Relocate to New Mexico for the two-year program duration or longer.
- Recommended that your technology development matches with New Mexico’s national laboratory expertise. Contact us to if you need help discovering which capabilities and focus areas match your innovations.