In 2023, OTT welcomed its inaugural set of Topic 3 awardees. We've restructured the Energy I-Corps program and added this completely new offering for the first time. Beyond the successful 10-week entrepreneurial training cohorts (now referred to as Topic 2), there are two additional topics that make up the program. Energy I-Corps Topic 1 is a pipeline development opportunity that funds selected National Labs to develop programming that can directly encourage their researchers to apply and participate in future Energy I-Corps Topic 2 training cohorts. The program's new Topic 3 funds Energy I-Corps cohort graduates and their projects toward their next steps in the commercialization process. This new topic is a way for OTT to even further support researchers in avoiding valleys of death.