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Foundation president, Harvey Fineberg, and chairman emeritus and co-founder, Gordon Moore, discuss the Statement of Founders’ Intent with staff.

Activation Energy

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First Grant

2017
Total Number of Grants

1
Cumulative Grant Amounts

$250,237

Focus Areas

Activation Energy empowers hard science innovators by creating homes for their work, catalyzing commercialization through new programs and partnerships and connecting the pillars of the hard to enable successful transitions from lab to market.

Activation Energy is partnering with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to support its Cyclotron Road program. Cyclotron Road is a groundbreaking fellowship program based in Berkeley, California that provides transformative support for hard science innovators as they advance their ideas from concept to a viable first product.