SEEDING CRITICAL ADVANCES FOR LEADING ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES WITH UNTAPPED POTENTIAL (SCALEUP) READY

Award ceiling
$5,000,000 – $20,000,000
Closes
Sep 29, 2029
Last verified
2026-10-23

Awards $5,000,000 – $20,000,000 per recipient for unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "additional information on eligibility", closing Sep 29, 2029.

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SEEDING CRITICAL ADVANCES FOR LEADING ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES WITH UNTAPPED POTENTIAL (SCALEUP) READY awards $5,000,000 – $20,000,000 per recipient, open to unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "additional information on…

Record fields
Program pool (total)
Not confirmed
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$20,000,000
Award floor
$5,000,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Sep 29, 2029
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Oct 2, 2024
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
Yes
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
Not confirmed
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
Not stated
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$20,000,000

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Open to any applicant
Source field: entity types
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

See Section II.A. of the NOFO.

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Sep 29, 20291072 daysDeadline type Fixed date

How hard is the application?

1 field
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
Yes

Who has received this funding?

1053 awards
Awards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.

1053 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.

RecipientStateAmountFiscal year
MOLTEX ENERGY USA LLCNot stated$239,1612019
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEMNot stated$235,9082016
PITTSBURGH TECHNICAL LLCNot stated$233,2042022
ECCO INTERNATIONAL INCNot stated$225,0002023
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISNot stated$225,0002021
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYNot stated$223,2282018
GENERAL ATOMICSNot stated$211,6282023
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$200,0002023
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARKNot stated$200,0002022
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEENot stated$200,0002022
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEMNot stated$199,9992020
BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONNot stated$199,9902020
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELESNot stated$199,9622019
TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATIONNot stated$199,4502020
THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYNot stated$196,4512023
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LACNot stated$184,3202023
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPNot stated$180,0002020
GLASS WRX SC, LLCNot stated$179,1262021
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$170,0002021
NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSNNot stated$164,6622016
NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGYNot stated$153,8622024
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITYNot stated$153,1552021
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTONNot stated$152,7212023
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANNot stated$150,0002025
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THENot stated$149,6642020
OKLO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Not stated$140,0002022
ALTEX TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONNot stated$139,5542021
EDEN GEOPOWER INCNot stated$136,0462024
MOLTEX ENERGY USA LLCNot stated$118,8682021
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$116,3242020
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEENot stated$111,7422020
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$106,6582022
BLUE DOT SEA FARMS, SPCNot stated$100,3752020
EXERGI PREDICTIVE LLCNot stated$99,9562020
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINANot stated$99,9482018
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMINGNot stated$92,9882020
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINENot stated$86,1392019
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINANot stated$75,0002025
COMPACT FUSION SYSTEMS, INC.Not stated$71,4412020
WOODRUFF SCIENTIFIC, INCNot stated$54,4342020
RTX CORPORATIONNot stated$39,6592019
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THENot stated$34,6642021
LINDE ADVANCED MATERIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC.Not stated$32,0712021
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEENot stated$30,4392020
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTNot stated$25,9432020
BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONNot stated$21,9682020
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCEDNot stated$21,8252019
FLORIDA A & M UNIVERSITYNot stated$10,0002022
SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGYNot stated$10,0002024
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONNot stated$10,0002021
BLUE ORIGIN WASHINGTON, LLCNot stated$02024
KEPPEL FLOATEC, LLCNot stated$02020
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$02024

Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.

What comparable notices state

26 records
Stated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Disadvantaged Communities, 26 of 52 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$775,000
  • Median$2,000,000
  • 75th percentile$4,223,208

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Who has won this programme before?

1053 awards
Awards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.

1053 federal awards on file under assistance listing 81.135, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.

Every award under this programme

Common questions

5 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
$5,000,000 – $20,000,000 per recipient.
When is the application deadline?
Sep 29, 2029.
Who is eligible to apply?
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility".
Is matching funding required?
Yes. This programme requires matching funds.
Has this programme funded anyone before?
1053 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-10-23
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-02
Assistance listing81.135

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