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Activate Welcomes 47 New Fellows to Cohort 2025
The new 2025 Cohort is powering America’s next hard tech leap

Visolis: Industry Trailblazer in Sustainable Aviation Fuel
When we say Activate Fellows are reinventing the world, we mean it. One example is sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). While the global aviation industry uses 100 billion gallons of..

Qunnect: Industry Trailblazer in Quantum Internet
Maël Flament is the co-founder and CTO of Qunnect, a pioneering company at the forefront of building the quantum internet. He has spent the past decade turning laboratory research..

Zanskar: Industry Trailblazer in Next-Generation Geothermal
Geothermal is one of the most promising sources of untapped renewable energy—literally. According to Zanskar (Carl Hoiland & Joel Edwards, Cohort 2020, Cyclotron Road), “there’s..

Bold Steps Toward Space: How Juno Propulsion Helps Fuel the Space Economy
Alexis Harroun (Juno Propulsion, Cohort 2024) What if revolutionizing rocket propulsion could unlock entirely new possibilities for space exploration? That’s one of the questions..

Geolabe's AI Satellite Tech: The Future of Accurate Methane Tracking
Claudia Hulbert (Geolabe, Cohort 2023) When it comes to mitigating climate change, much of the discussion centers on reducing CO2 emissions or trapping CO2. But methane, a..