Activate is building a new generation of innovators that can redefine how technology serves society and sustains the planet. We partner with funders and leading research institutions to provide a new path for top scientists and engineers to transform their discoveries into world-changing products. Our fellows are building transformative energy, climate, and manufacturing technologies across two locations: Activate Boston and Cyclotron Road, a program of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Fellows receive funding, access to world-class research facilities, entrepreneurial mentorship, networking, and education.
AirWorks is changing the mapping process for the construction industry, an untapped $12T market. Our AI-powered platform creates automated maps from aerial data, solving a massive data bottleneck in the pre-construction process. AirWorks has established itself as the leader in automated mapping and its solution has been deployed with some of the largest civil engineering companies. AirWorks spun out of MIT in the summer of 2018 and plans for its technology to be the base-layer of geospatial analytics for any industry.
Armoire is a clothing rental service, enabling customers to borrow contemporary women's clothing and swap anytime. It is the modern woman's life-hack to shopping, offering clothes ranging from blouses to jumpsuits and dresses to denim. The company also sells clothes online. The company was founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington.
Biobot Analytics is a wastewater epidemiology company that is transforming wastewater infrastructure into public health observatories. Its wastewater monitoring technology analyzes urine and stool samples to create a health database that is independent of hospital reporting systems, free from societal biases affecting who can and can’t seek care, and most importantly, rapidly adaptable to new and emerging public health threats. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.