Apply Now: Fund Your Innovation with the 2024 Activate Fellowship

Sponsored by Activate

The two-year Activate Fellowship empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. Fellows receive:

A yearly living stipend of $80K-$110K + health insurance stipend and travel allowance. Each project also receives $100K of research support at a host laboratory and access to at least $75K in additional flexible capital.
Access to research facilities in Berkeley, CA, Boston, MA, Houston, TX, New York, NY, or other qualified host laboratories anywhere across the U.S. in the Activate Anywhere Community.
Intensive entrepreneurial training, mentorship, and networking.

Regular meetings with your managing director and advisors.
Elements of Entrepreneurship educational “bootcamp” program.
Weekly programming to connect and learn from members of the entrepreneurial and funding ecosystem.
Interactions curated between fellows and the many investors, technologists, policy experts, and service providers that comprise Activate’s network.
Community social gatherings and support from people who have been there before.

Activate does not charge any fees or equity to participate.
Fellows receive a two-year living stipend of $80K-$110K/year, along with health insurance, and travel, education, and relocation assistance.
Our fellowship program supports people, first and foremost. We have a nonprofit mission to help you find the optimal path for your project to go to market, regardless of the specific business model.

To be eligible, you…

Must have a bachelor’s degree and 4+ years post-baccalaureate scientific research, engineering, or technology development experience.
Must be leading the commercial development of a hardware-based technology innovation for the first time if awarded the fellowship i.e. not a repeat hard-tech founder.
Must be committed full time to the proposed project or company if awarded the fellowship.
Must be legally able to work in the U.S. for the duration of the fellowship.
Must be able to communicate proficiently in English.

To be eligible, your proposed project or company…

Must be based in the physical or biological sciences, or related engineering disciplines.
Must be still be in development and not yet ready for full-scale product sales at the time of the application deadline.
Must not have raised more than $2M in debt or equity funding from non-governmental sources at the time of the application deadline.

Apply before: October 17, 2023

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Apply before: October 17, 2023