Grant Program🇺🇸 USA
Activate (Cyclotron Road)
Berkeley, California
Scaled the Cyclotron Road model (Lawrence Berkeley Lab); fellows surpassed $1B in follow-on.
- Investment focus
- Hardware/DeeptechCleantech/ClimateEnergyAI/MLImpact
- Stage
- Idea/Pre-incubation · Pre-seed · Seed
- Check / terms
- Equity-free; ~$80K-$115K/yr stipend + $100K research funding
- Program / model
- Two-year, equity-free fellowship for hard-science founders; fellows retain all IP; stipend, insurance, lab access.
- Invests in
- US (Berkeley, Boston, Houston, NY, virtual)
- Founded
- 2015