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From Zero to One to Many: How Richard Wang Built the Cuberg Team
A lot has changed since Olivia Risset joined Cuberg as employee number one, but the characteristics that Cuberg looks for in new hires has remained constant.
Richard Wang’s Tips for Effective Startup Hiring
Six nuggets of hiring advice from Cohort 2016 fellow and Cuberg CEO Richard Wang.
Welcome, Cohort 2021
These 23 fellows bring a wealth of scientific talent and ambition to turn their innovations—in everything from quantum computing and robotics to bio-based materials, ag-tech, and carbon-free energy systems—into much-needed products and services, with speed and at scale.
Values, Focus, Fresh Ideas: Advice for Founders from Matt Rogers
We asked Incite.org founder and Activate board member Matt Rogers to share his advice with our community of founders.
Learning to Lead: A Fellow Shares ‘Wisdom from the Future’ with Her Younger Self
In a letter to her younger self, Cohort 2020 fellow Elise Strobach reflects on the hard work of overcoming self-doubt and confronting her early perceptions of what makes a strong leader.
Tom Boussie Set 50 Founders—and Our Fellowship—On a Path Toward Success
Managing director Tom Boussie is transitioning out of his role and will serve as Activate’s executive-in-residence while helping to hire and train the next managing director for Activate Berkeley.
Climate Reflections from the Activate Community
As individuals at an organization committed to the urgent work of mitigating climate change, how can we balance staying informed and inspired? We asked members of the Activate community to reflect on their climate journey.
Questions Entrepreneurs Should Ask If They Want to Cut Industrial Emissions
For industry, cost is king, so creating a new, low-carbon approach to making an industrial product isn’t enough. Science entrepreneurs need to find not only the lowest and cleanest energy costs but also the best manufacturing scenario.
Why Decarbonizing Industry Can’t Wait
After a steep decline in 2020, emissions are surging back up, highlighting the need for permanent carbon reductions across our physical infrastructure and industrial markets.
Cohort 2016 Fellow Richard Wang Sells Cuberg to Swedish Battery Manufacturer Northvolt
The exit serves as a major validation of Activate’s model to support science entrepreneurs and will drive Cuberg’s innovative battery toward faster deployment, advancing carbon-free electromobility.
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.
The Activate Fellowship Model Takes Root in the Netherlands with Faculty of Impact
We are encouraged whenever other organizations with similar goals launch programs modeled on our fellowship, because it means more scientists will turn their research into products.
Finalists for Cohort 2021 of the Activate Fellowship
Each year, Finalist Week is one of the most intensely busy but also rewarding periods in the fellowship cycle. This year will be no different, aside from its virtual format. And aside from the fact that for the first time, we are sharing information about our finalists publicly.
Activate Welcomes Rachel Slaybaugh, Director of LBL's Cyclotron Road Division
As a nuclear engineer and former ARPA-E program director, Rachel Slaybaugh brings a wealth of experience supporting entrepreneurial scientists to her new role directing the Cyclotron Road Division.
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..
Raymond Weitekamp Can’t Stop Inventing
For a young deep-tech startup, polySpectra has an impressive customer list, including Fortune 500 firms and government agencies. But its CEO Raymond Weitekamp won’t consider the company successful until it becomes the go-to 3D printing provider for engineers, designers, and inventors. To make that happen, the Activate alumnus is getting creative and building a community.
Meet Karin Lion, Chief Growth & Partnerships Officer
Karin Lion reflects on her path to impact, from the DoD, to NGOs, to an MBA, and looks ahead to a bright future at Activate.
Lessons on Breaking Into the Microelectronics Ecosystem
Join us October 6th for a rare opportunity to connect directly with and learn from three engineers who are embedded in the burgeoning microelectronics innovation ecosystem.
‘I’m Just Excited to Keep Going’—Cohort 2018 Fellows on Paths to Impact
Three Cohort 2018 fellows reflect on the past two years and their paths to impact.
Cohort 2018: A Brief Impact Report
We are happy to share some of the accomplishments of these 13 scientists and engineers over the course of two intense years.