Call for Applications: Activate Fellowship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: October 28, 2025

Applications are open for the Activate Fellowship 2026. Activate’s two-12 months fellowship program transforms scientists and engineers into founders, empowering them to reinvent the world by bringing their analysis to market. They present early-stage science entrepreneurs with funding, technical assets, and unparalleled assist from a community of scientists, engineers, traders, business companions, and fellow entrepreneurs.

Activate doesn’t cost any charges or take any fairness (monetary stake) in fellow’s firms for people to hitch and take part within the fellowship. The fellowship program helps individuals, firstly. They have a nonprofit mission that will help you discover the optimum path for your undertaking to go to market, whatever the particular enterprise mannequin.

Benefits

• They present $100,000 in analysis funding to every undertaking / firm within the fellowship which may be used to entry laboratory area as wanted.

Eligibility

Fellows’ Eligibility

• Must have a bachelor’s diploma and 4+ years publish-baccalaureate scientific analysis, engineering, or know-how improvement expertise.
• Must be main the business improvement of a {hardware}-primarily based know-how innovation for the primary time if awarded the fellowship i.e., not a repeat laborious tech founder.
• Must be dedicated full-time to the proposed undertaking or firm if awarded the fellowship.
• Must be legally in a position to work within the U.S. for the length of the fellowship.
• Must be capable of talk proficiently in English.

Project Eligibility

• Must be primarily based within the bodily or organic sciences or associated engineering disciplines.
• Must nonetheless be in improvement and never but prepared for full-scale product gross sales on the time of the application deadline.
• Must not have raised greater than $2M in debt or fairness funding from non-governmental sources on the time of the application deadline.

Application

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For extra data, see FAQ and go to Activate Fellowship.