We are thrilled to announce that Activate has accepted a record 62 new scientists with 50 groundbreaking companies into our fellowship! Chosen from an impressive pool of over 1,000 applicants, the 2024 #ActivateFellows have been selected for their pioneering work across critical sectors such as energy, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture. Stay tuned for updates on what these exceptional scientists and engineers are up to! Read more about our newest cohort: https://lnkd.in/gWhtyucB
Activate
Research Services
Berkeley, California 12,617 followers
A home for entrepreneurial scientists and engineers tackling the world's biggest challenges.
About us
We empower scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. Founded in 2015, Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by launching startups to address climate change and other global challenges. Working between government, philanthropy, universities, and the private sector, Activate transforms scientists into high-impact entrepreneurs through the Activate Fellowship, a two-year immersive experience that equips science entrepreneurs with the skills, networks, infrastructure, and funding they need to quickly and effectively bring their groundbreaking research to market. Activate is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and does not charge any fee nor equity for fellows to participate. Activate’s entrepreneurial fellowship model originated at Cyclotron Road, the first U.S. Department of Energy's Lab Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) started at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the founding Activate partner. Activate supports fellows in communities across the U.S.: Activate Berkeley, Activate Boston, Activate New York, Activate Houston, and Activate Anywhere. Learn more at Activate.org.
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http://www.activate.org
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- Research Services
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- 11-50 employees
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- Berkeley, California
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- Nonprofit
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- 2015
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- Hard technology, Energy innovation, Advanced materials, Low-carbon technology, Hard tech, Energy technology, Business mentorship, manufacturing, mentorship, entrepreneurship, energy storage, chemistry, biology, physics, microelectronics, energy security, clean energy, and energy efficiency
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🌍Sustainable Fuel, ♻️Recycling Aluminum, 🎹Jazz Piano, 🛰Space Tech, and ✨ More On the latest episode of #ClimateTechCoffee, Peter Godart, Co-founder and CEO at Found Energy, joins Matt to share how the company is converting scrap aluminum into a powerful fuel. Tune in to hear more about how Found Energy is setting new standards in the climate tech arena. 📻 Listen to the episode exclusively on Substack👉 https://lnkd.in/gbxTAYRu #climatechange #cleantech #greentech #aluminum #sustainablefuel
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Around 20% of current & alumni Activate Fellows applied more than once before receiving the Activate Fellowship. #BecomeAnActivateFellow Have you applied to the Activate Fellowship before? Please join us for an informative webinar designed to assist you in applying again with best practices on: - Updating your application - How to pivot if you are applying with a new idea - Reapplying with the same project/technology Applications open September 4th! For more information about the fellowship and this year's application process and to sign up for application updates, visit https://lnkd.in/gXqS7Sy.
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🎉🎉 #NENY is proud to sponsor two Activate Fellows this year with a focus in batteries. A big congratulations to the team at Standard Potential Co. (also a #ChargeUp company and new member of Koffman Southern Tier Incubator!) @Richard May and @Andrew Wang are leading this innovative company as they scale a breakthrough sodium-ion battery technology that eliminates critical bottlenecks in existing terawatt-hour-scale lithium-ion manufacturing infrastructure while using sustainable and abundant mineral inputs. Deploying Standard Potential’s batteries into diurnal, longer-duration storage applications enables the proliferation of cheaper and cleaner energy.
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This PhD-turned-founder from Princeton University has raised $35M to use machine learning to improve battery quality during manufacturing. Here's his story... 👇 My guest on this EFI (Entrepreneurs for Impact) podcast was Andrew Hsieh, Co-founder and CEO of Liminal. Liminal uses ultrasound and machine learning to create a new way to inspect battery manufacturing, elevate cell quality, and improve cost and safety. They’ve raised over $35M from investors such as our friends at ArcTern Ventures, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, and Northvolt, as well as the federal government, including ARPA-E and NSF. Andrew brings a PhD and postdoc work at Princeton University to the creation of this venture. He’s also an Activate Fellow and Board member and a skilled photographer. In this episode, you’ll learn these four important takeaways and much more. 1. How they sell to customers (it’s not what you think) 2. How they generate revenue from three sources of value 3 How a random YouTube video about bouncing batteries led to the creation of this technology 4. How he reads the late-night scribbles on the notepad by his bed each morning --- LISTEN HERE: Apple - https://lnkd.in/eXb7JpB9 Spotify - https://lnkd.in/e5RrV_cf
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Is now the right time for climate-tech investing? Matthew Nordan of Azolla Ventures says yes. “You have a supply chain of financing from what we do with the ultra-early stage to people at the much later stage funding first-of-a-kind project finance,” he says. “It gives these companies a path to get to impact at scale that just didn't exist 10 or 15 years ago.” Our third episode of Science on a Mission is all about adaptive VC strategies for funding climate tech, which Activate’s Calvin A. Cupini discusses with three investors: Nordan, Molly Wood of Molly Wood Media, and Craig Lawrence of Energy Transition Ventures. https://lnkd.in/gZPF54ek Listen now! 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gPdgmEWk Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gFQVpgpX YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gq_epav6
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Founded in 2015, Activate Global Inc. is a #nonprofitorganization that partners with U.S.-based funders and research institutions to transform scientists and engineers into high-impact entrepreneurs through the Activate Fellowship. Activate’s entrepreneurial fellowship model originated at Cyclotron Road, a program of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and founding Activate partner. #Activate supports innovation across a number of verticals including #carbonmanagement. For this session, we will host an innovator sprint on #CO2storage and #utilization alongside Activate. We will feature three early-stage innovators presenting their #technology and #usecases. Speakers: ⏩ Robert Moak, CEO at Tensora, Inc. ⏩ Marissa Beatty, Founder and CEO at Turnover Labs ⏩ Corey Pattison, Co Founder and CEO at Cella ⏩ Kevin See, Head of Ecosystem at Activate Led by Mora Fernández Jurado, Sr. Research Associate at Darcy Partners Visit the event page to follow the registration steps. Click on the 'View Event' button below! 👇 #energytransition #events #forum #innovation #CO2
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🌱 Seed Round Announcement from florrent! 🔊 We are very excited to share that florrent has secured $3.6M in Seed funding, led by MassVentures, in addition to over $650K in recent grant awards, to advance our mission of revolutionizing supercapacitor technology while building an economically sustainable business that innovates for the well-being of people and the planet. 🌎 Our success is fueled by the support of an incredible group of Seed investors, including Raven Indigenous Capital Partners, MassMutual Catalyst Fund, Boston Impact Initiative, Maroon Venture Partners Fund, Collaborative Fund, Elbezius, and The Sky Foundation. We’re also thankful to have non-dilutive grant funding from Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Activate, and others to be announced. This funding will help us scale our activated carbon production facilities in Western Massachusetts, expand our team, and invest in essential capital expenditures. Over the next 24 months, we plan to complete customer proof-of-concept testing with our cylindrical cell and module products and further validate our innovation’s techno-economics with customers ready for commercial offtake in high-volume markets. We’re excited about the journey ahead and grateful to our ecosystem of investors, advisors, and partners for making it possible. To read the full press release, follow the link below: https://lnkd.in/etcFqyW5 #SeedFunding #Innovation #Sustainability #Deeptech #florrent #CleanEnergy #EnergyJustice #ThroughPowerWeEmpower
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I attended my first NECEC Annual #Green #Future #Gala when Osmoses just filed for incorporation, and with excitement and admiration I was looking at those alternating on stage sharing about their dreams and visions for their companies and bright future plans for our society. Being nominated as Emerging Company of the Year three years later is very special, and puts things in perspective on how much progress we have made. Thanks to Beth Zonis and the Cleantech Open Northeast / NECEC, program that introduced us to the NECEC and the cleantech world in #Massachusetts, awarding us our first NECEC prizes! As a spinout based in #Cambridge, MA, we are proud to have the opportunity to keep growing in this area where we expanded the organization to over 25 employees and developed deep connections to local communities, thanks to the support of organizations like MassVentures, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Activate Boston, and many others. 🖱 If you support what we are building, vote for Osmoses, It's just one click 📸 https://lnkd.in/dW7kVrhM Thank you for your continuous support! Joe Curtatone, Barry Reaves, Magdalena Wilk
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🌟Exciting News from Electrified Thermal Solutions! 🚀 Our Joule Hive™ Thermal Battery (JHTB) has achieved Technology Readiness Level 6, successfully cycling our E-Brick heated circuit to a temperature of 1,700°C, meeting a key U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) milestone. This breakthrough advances cleaner industrial heat in high-temperature industries like chemicals, steel, glass and cement manufacturing. The over $40M from the DOE enables us to accelerate our commercial deployment to next year and we aim to deliver gigawatts of thermal power by 2030. We are ready to drive the future of zero-carbon industrial heat! 🌱⚡ Read the full press release below: https://lnkd.in/e8p7qF4r #ETS #Decarbonization #Innovation #ThermalEnergy #Decarbonization #CleanTech #DOE #ARPAE #JouleHive #Innovation #Sustainability