Rise Reforming participated in UChicago's Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC) this Spring, and was awarded $125,000 to go towards developing their lab scale proof of concept this summer.

Rise Reforming was named first place winner of the EnergyTech University Prize 2024 last April in Austin, TX. The team competed against 225 companies from across the country and won the $50,000 top prize.

Rise Reforming recently won the 2025 FEA Startup Award, and will be presenting at Paris Packaging Week on January 28th.