We’re now Accepting Applications for Cohort 2023
We’re expanding our fellowship to accelerate impact and meet growing demand.
From Fellow to Managing Director: Jill Fuss is a New Kind of Activate Success Story
It was inevitable that at some point an Activate Fellow would return to the community as an Activate staff member. But that doesn’t make it any less inspiring.
Activate 2020 Fellows on Cultivating and Nurturing Company Culture
As their cohort completes the two-year fellowship, three 2020 fellows reflect on what they’ve learned about building company culture.
Meet the 39 New Activate Fellows Who Are on a Mission to Build a Cleaner, Safer Society
Cohort 2022 fellows are pursuing imperatives to permanently remove carbon dioxide, forge carbon-free manufacturing pathways, grow the bioeconomy, advance the efficiency and power of information technology, and sustainably secure minerals essential to the clean energy transition.
UMARO Hooks Sharks, Closes Seed Series
We asked UMARO co-founders Amanda Stiles (Cohort 2020) and Beth Zotter to share their perspectives on purposeful work, the role of Activate in their journey as founders, and what motivates these two science entrepreneurs.
Finalists Share Visions of a Better Future
In early March, Cohort 2022 finalists made their final pitches to the Activate community. At stake for the finalists: the chance to dig in deep as they launch their startups with the financial, educational, research, technical, and network support of the Activate Fellowship.
For Activate Fellows, 2021 Was the Year of Pilots, Products, and Partnerships
We’ve rounded up some of the most exciting products, partnerships, and pilots that our cohort companies have launched or announced in 2021.
Stripe Climate to Purchase up to $500,000 in Carbon Removal from Fellows' Startups
We have forged a landmark partnership with Stripe, a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet, in support of Activate Fellows whose technology innovations promise to permanently remove and store atmospheric CO2.
Sea Change: Activate Fellows and the Blue Economy
We are celebrating the Activate Fellows whose innovations directly and indirectly contribute to the blue economy—a powerful tool for climate mitigation.
These Tomatoes are Fighting Climate Change
Activate Fellows Joshua McEnaney and Jay Schwalbe spent much of last summer toiling in a research farm in Fresno, piloting their startup Nitricity’s approach to decarbonizing nitrogen fertilizer. The harvest produced very positive results—and a big batch of salsa..