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Astral Materials manufactures ultra-high-quality semiconductors that cannot be made on Earth to serve advanced applications bottlenecked by crystal quality.
Carbon Infuse is developing technologies to transform CO2 and waste into building materials, decarbonizing heavy industries and the built environment.
Flood Dynamics, founded by Katya Boukin, turns the world's most common and destructive natural hazard into a manageable challenge through end-to-end flood intelligence.
NextSet Materials enables the reprocessing of historically unrecyclable thermosets and the recovery of valuable composite materials for reuse.
Carbide Radio is building next-generation silicon carbide RF semiconductor chips powering 5G and 6G cellular infrastructure.
The narrator worked as a mechanical engineer developing solar trackers and concentrators for a startup in the early 2000s. The team aimed to build a commercially viable rooftop tracking solar concentrator.
Women founders in hard tech are redefining leadership by integrating trust-based communication, values-driven strategies, and precise decision-making, leading to exceptional company outcomes.
Celebrating the achievements of Activate Anywhere’s Cohort 2023 and the transformation of Rok Sitar into a science entrepreneur with Blaze Energy Technologies.
CRecTech, co-founded by Kang Hui Lim and Kok Giap Haw, turns stranded biogas and biomass into affordable green methanol through a simplified, modular process.
Houston, the United States’ fourth largest city, is an industrial powerhouse with several claims to fame. It boasts the largest life science complex in the world: the Texas Medical Center. It is home to the NASA Johnson Space Center and earned the name “Space City” during the pivotal space explorati
Activate Boston celebrates its growing impact, partnerships, and achievements in climate innovation, highlighted at the recent ClimaTech 2025 conference.
The Activate Fellowship is for science innovators interested in entrepreneurship or bringing innovations from the lab to market.
Activate is a nonprofit organization unlike any other: one that bridges science and business, convenes leaders across sectors, and sparks a new generation of hard tech for good.
Amy Gilbert Fehir is Activate’s chief development officer. She previously led development at the Mark Foundation and served as executive director of the Coalition to Protect America's National Parks.
Andon Bio, founded by Laura White, measures the cell's hidden supply chain to make protein production predictable.
Caitlin Cutter (she/her) is Chief of Staff at Activate. Prior to Activate, Cutter served as Executive Assistant to the Director/CEO at Representational Pictures. During her eight years there, she managed operations for two startups, including serving as Chief of Staff and employee number one for a service platform that grew to 25 employees in less than six months. She has produced three documentaries, two of which premiered at Telluride Film Festival and subsequently ranged in showings across th
Steven Tran is Activate’s executive vice president of finance and contracts. He previously served as treasurer and senior director of operations at Advanced Functional Fabrics of America.
Activate empowers science innovators to lead, connects them with the resources to succeed, and transforms bold hard-tech ideas into real-world solutions.
Built on a decade of experience with hard-tech founders, BRIDGE Japan helps pre-incorporation researchers turn science into ventures.
An index of Activate's Cohorts and Companies
Activate partners with government, philanthropic, and program organizations to drive scientific innovation, empower entrepreneurs, and create impactful solutions for global challenges.
Every Electric Inc. distributes simple plug-in energy storage to people to monetize grid flexibility from everyday loads.
Activate builds a community to drive science into impact and empowers science innovators to turn hard tech into real-world solutions.
Activate is a nonprofit organization that partners with funders and research institutions to support the Fellowship, which helps entrepreneurial scientists and engineers develop technologies. The Fellowship provides funding, research facilities, mentorship, networking, and education.
The code of conduct for the Activate Fellowship is one rooted in mutual respect for all parties involved and professionalism.
