Activate Global / DOE / Mass Clean Energy / multiple national labs

Runs a Massachusetts clean-energy collaboration linking the United States Department of Energy with partner laboratories.

Activate Global is a private nonprofit fellowship operator that runs the Activate Fellowship for hard-tech science and engineering founders, and the funding stack is co-supported by public and philanthropic partners.

The program is two-year and equity-free, with fellows receiving total support reported at roughly $300K over the fellowship plus stipend, R&D allowance, and living support components. Activate is delivered across U.S. cohorts and an online format, including dedicated site models in Berkeley, Boston, Houston, New York, and remote participation.

Applicants are typically early-stage founders with at least four years of post-baccalaureate scientific or technical work, a full-time fellowship commitment, and a project not yet ready for broad commercial deployment. This funder route is fellowship-centered, not a conventional grant program, and it is therefore categorized as high-level pathway-level support rather than open institutional grant solicitation.