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 12,121 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
External link for Activate
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- Research Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
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- Berkeley, California
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- Nonprofit
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- 2015
- Specialties
- 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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Employees at Activate
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Anne French
Helping to build purpose-driven brands to change the world | CMO | Brand Strategist
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Andrew Deitz
ScaleTech Entrepreneur & Connector for purpose-driven businesses deploying Climate Solutions
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Naomi Baer
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R. Todd Johnson
Impact Investing Board Member @ ImpactAlpha Inc. | JD, Strategy
Updates
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Congrats to Tatta Bio (Cohort 2024, Yunha Hwang) on launching their first open-source project- DGEB, the first large-scale functional evaluation benchmark for biological language models. Check out this exciting work!
Today we're open-sourcing DGEB, the first large-scale functional evaluation benchmark for biological language models 🧬 DGEB fills a key gap in BioML by providing diverse functional benchmarks for assessing pLM and gLM representations. We address two critical problems in existing functional evals: 1) Bias in evaluation datasets and 2) Lack of evaluations that assess functional relationships *between* genomic elements. Biology is incredibly diverse, yet biological research is biased towards a few model organisms. Foundation models of biology must learn from data across the tree of life. Existing evaluations using only model organisms perpetuate this bias, hindering diverse discovery and design.DGEB features 18 expert-curated datasets that span all three domains of life! 🌱🦠🐛 For underrepresented taxa (e.g. #Archaea), we find that model performance is poor and do not improve with scaling, highlighting a key limitation of existing models. Inferring biological function requires understanding the evolutionary and functional relationships *between* biomolecules. DGEB features multi-sequence tasks, allowing us to ask questions such as how well do learned embedding distances recapitulate phylogenetic distances? Can we use pLMs to retrieve bacterial homologs given archaeal proteins? Do pLMs learn co-regulatory interactions or distinguish paralogs from orthologs? Can multi-element functions (e.g. biosynthetic gene clusters) be captured in representations? DGEB is inspired by NLP benchmarks, in particular MTEB from Hugging Face. Our field can only progress with transparent, collaborative and diversified evaluation datasets. We encourage the contribution of expert-curated datasets through our github repo: https://lnkd.in/gHJ_WWsT This was a true multi-disciplinary effort by our team at Tata Bio: Jacob West-Roberts Joshua Kravitz Nishant J. and Andre Cornman. This work is made possible with generous support by Schmidt Futures! Read our manuscript at: https://www.tatta.bio/dgeb
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Big shoutout to Activate New York's managing director Andrew Chang for speaking at the ARPA-E IGNIITE Awards ceremony this week in Washington D.C. He addressed the 23 awardees about the Activate Fellowship and the critical need for innovation in the energy space. Chang shared the stage with other incredible speakers including ARPA-E Director Evelyn Wang and Congressman Bill Foster (D-11-IL), as well as representatives from Breakthrough Energy and the National Academy of Sciences. It was an exciting event, as each IGNIITE 2024 awardee will receive approximately $500,000 to advance research projects across universities, national laboratories, and the private sector, covering the full spectrum of energy applications. #ARPAEIGNIITE We can't wait to see what they accomplish with this support. Read more about the awardees: https://lnkd.in/gHJdt77S
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Great news! Gradient's (Vince Romanin, Cohort 2017) innovative high-efficiency air conditioning and heating solutions have been recognized at the Resilient New Orleans Innovation Challenge Showcase, organized by Finance New Orleans and Elemental Excelerator. This award highlights Gradient's commitment to sustainable, accessible, and impactful technology, and recognizes Gradient as a pioneer in climate tech. Congrats, Gradient! https://lnkd.in/gVkBiMAc
Revolutionizing Housing: The Resilient New Orleans Innovation Challenge Showcase Unveils Future-Forward Solutions - Elemental Excelerator
https://elementalexcelerator.com
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Join us for an important discussion on the critical role that mentorship plays in grant writing and funding proposals. Discover how supporting early-stage founders through programs like the Activate Fellowship can make a significant impact and learn how you can support them in their first steps to entrepreneurship. #BecomeAnActivateFellow In this session, you will: - Learn effective mentorship strategies for grant writing. - Understand the Activate Fellowship’s benefits & nomination process. - Get a first-hand experience on what the Fellowship application entails. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eCBiG7GW
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We’re going to camp! 🎣🏕️🐴 Join us and other top incubators and accelerators for Camp Cleantech, a startups-only event for climate-tech and #cleantech entrepreneurs. It will offer a series of workshops designed to help #startups thrive plus some campy community activities inspired by Colorado’s innovative spirit. Join Activate and Senior Partnership Manager Nikhil B. Gargeya for the following workshops: ➡ SiPA: August 13, 1:30-3:00pm (Part I) & August 14, 11:30am-1:00pm (Part II) ➡ Beyond resilience: August 13, 3:00-5:00pm; August 14, 9:00-11:00am. Hosted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Wells Fargo from August 12-14 at CSU Spur in #Denver, Colorado. Camp signup is now open: www.campcleantech.com.
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I’m super excited to share that I’ve been selected as one of the Activate Fellows as part of the #ActivateCohort2024! Super humbled to be among the 60+ amazing people working together to solve the world’s most important problems. From fusion energy to agriculture technologies, Activate focuses on helping to commercialize deep tech inventions that better the lives of people and the environment. Next steps: With Activate's support I’ll be leaving my university research position to spin out my own nanotech company. Activate is the gold standard for entrepreneurial scientists bringing deep-tech innovations to market and I’m super grateful to be part of this new community. Couldn’t have gotten here without a great co-founder Amy and all the great advice and mentorship I’ve received this past year from Van, Ashley, Jeremy, Cara, Juan, Gina, and the Texas Innovation Center ! ++++++ Wow Gabriel that’s super cool how can I help? ++++++ #1 You can follow our new LinkedIn page Nanoscale Labs to stay up to date with our developments (more info and website is going to be launched soon). #2 We’re aiming to solve critical problems in solar power generation and replace toxic materials used throughout consumer goods manufacturing: - Right now we’re looking to connect with people with experience with bifacial solar, solar module and solar glass manufacturers. - We’re also very interested in connecting with people in emerging solar markets like EVs, building integrated solar, as well as light-weight portable power generation needs (UAVs, space, etc).
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Last night, ARPA-E Program Director Dr. Laurent Pilon held a special ceremony at the National Academy of Sciences honoring the talented early-stage innovators selected to receive funding through the #ARPAEIGNIITE 2024 program. Thank you to ARPA-E Director Dr. Evelyn Wang, the Congressman Bill Foster, the National Academy of Engineering’s Dr. John L. Anderson, Breakthrough Energy Ventures' Dr. Carmichael Roberts, and Activate’s Andrew Chang for the inspiring remarks, and to everyone who joined us to celebrate. Stay tuned and subscribe to our newsletter for updates on what’s coming up this summer: https://lnkd.in/eyZySP8E.
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Activate Boston sits in the heart of a world-renowned innovation hub, a nexus for cutting-edge research from defense to energy to biotech. Mark your calendars for an exclusive networking event on August 6! This is your chance to meet the Activate & Blueprint teams and discover how our unique programs can propel your commercialization opportunities and foster ecosystem support. Register here: https://hubs.la/Q02F2tm70
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“In my time at Activate, I’ve learned that a virtual community is not only a nice-to-have but a must-have for supporting science entrepreneurship. And it’s crucial for addressing some of humanity’s most pressing challenges.” -Andrés Ochoa C., Managing Director of the Activate Anywhere Community Virtual communities fill a crucial gap in our national innovation ecosystem. Find out how communities like Activate Anywhere measure up to in-person networks when it comes to fostering founder success. Read here: https://hubs.la/Q02F2ks-0
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