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Activate Updates: February 2024

This Month's Features Activate x Invested In Climate SXSW Podcast Series Plus Activate Fellow wins Ecosystem news Job opportunities Cyrus Wadia Appears on Invested In Climate On a..

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Activate’s CEO Appears on Invested in Climate Podcast

Established in 2015 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Activate has carved a unique niche in the ecosystem of climate change innovation. By offering a fellowship..

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Activate’s CEO Appears on Invested in Climate Podcast

Established in 2015 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Activate has carved a unique niche in the ecosystem of climate change innovation. By offering a fellowship..

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Activate Updates: January 2024

This Month's Features Parenting and Pioneering in STEM Innovation Cyrus Wadia on Everybody in the Pool with Molly Wood Plus Activate Fellow wins Ecosystem news Job opportunities..

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Activate’s new CEO, Cyrus Wadia, featured on climate-tech focused podcast

Activate's new CEO, Cyrus Wadia, spoke with journalist Molly Wood on her climate-tech-focused podcast, Everybody in the Pool. During the show, Wadia shared his passion for..

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Parenting and Pioneering in STEM Innovation

Parenting and entrepreneurship are both transformative and highly demanding journeys, and many Activate Fellows embark on them simultaneously. How do they balance both? How do the..

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Activate Updates: December 2023

This Month's Features COP28: To Meet Climate Targets, We Need Science Entrepreneurs Introducing Breaking Ground: A Blog Series by Activate Managing Directors Plus Activate Fellow..

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2023 By the Numbers

By just about any measure, 2023 was a powerful year for Activate and our fellows. New Fellows and Teams We welcomed 46 new Activate Fellows—our largest cohort to date—across 39..

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A Note to the Boston Climate-Tech Community as We Enter Adulthood

By Dan Recht, Managing Director - Activate Boston You can start the story of the Boston climate-tech ecosystem in a lot of ways, but I begin with the founding of the MIT Energy..

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COP28: To Meet Climate Targets, We Need Science Entrepreneurs

By Matt Price, Co-Founder and CFO at Activate I just returned from COP28, the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, held this year in..

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Activate’s Commitment to Science Leaders: An Interview with our CEO

This month, we sit down with our new CEO, Cyrus Wadia, to discuss his history with our organization, his vision for Activate’s future, and how our fellows continue to create..

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Activate Updates: November 2023

This Month's Features Q&A with Activate’s new CEO How one fellow is helping farmers build more resilient cows Plus Activate Fellow wins Ecosystem news Job opportunities This..

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