The page explains how to build a Scientific Advisory Board for a Tough Tech startup to de-risk core science, guide scale-up, and signal technical credibility to investors.
The Engine's Ben Downing shares what it will take to accelerate Tough Tech grid interconnections, reduce energy costs and secure American energy abundance.
The Engine is a nonprofit incubator and accelerator built by MIT to support early-stage Tough Tech startups with infrastructure, programs, and networking.
The Engine is a nonprofit incubator and accelerator built by MIT to support Tough Tech startups in biotech, climate tech and beyond — from idea to impact.
Activate and The Engine Accelerator partner to help scientists move from research commercialization toward founding companies. The Engine works with scientists and engineers beginning to commercialize research, while Activate offers two-year fellowships to founders with more developed ideas as they prepare to fundraise. The programs are comparing curricula to identify gaps, but retain separate application and admissions processes; no money changes hands and the organizations are not considering a merger.