Lucas Zubillaga

Co-Founder & CTO at Rise Reforming (YC S26)

Co-founder

Rise Reforming· Summer 2026🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States

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2024Co-founder· Rise Reforming

Founder · since 2024

Company

Rise Reforming

Role

Co-Founder & CTO

current

Stage

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Raised

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Based

Chicago, Illinois, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Rise Reforming

We turn waste gases into valuable supply-secure chemicals

Summer 2026

Experience

Career

Rise Reforming
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CTO · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2024 – Present
2024
Avangrid
Intern - Offshore Wind Project Services · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2024
2024
Argonne National Laboratory
Research Assistant - Nuclear Science & Engineering Division · Lemont, Illinois, United States · 2023
2023
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago
Research Assistant - The Gagliardi Group · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
ETS Ingenieros Industriales UPM
Research Assistant - Department of Nuclear Engineering · Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain · 2022
2022

Bio

Co-Founder & CTO at Rise Reforming (S26). Double B.Sc. in Molecular Engineering and Physics from the University of Chicago. Prev: nuclear waste management at Argonne National Laboratory, offshore wind at Avangrid/Iberdrola. Led the design, procurement, construction, and operation of a bench-scale reforming unit with controls. Also have a Spotify playlist with 200k+ saves. Check it out at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3rV2gyEKHxixpKa3IDQLvF?si=3458c33e03e84738&nd=1&dlsi=d0006826be884d