California · Public charity
Activate Global Inc
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. Activate partners with u.s. Based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial scientists translate their breakthrough ideas into commercial solutions.
- $17M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 77
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 84%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $11M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,168,986
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 51
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 84% of the organizations Activate Global Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 75 | $11M | 61% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $4.1M | 84% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $3.7M | 93% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $650k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $675k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Circe Bioscience Inc | $1,268,986 | 2 | n/a |
| Irradiant Technologies | $677,078 | 1 | n/a |
| Berkeley Lab Foundation | $456,006 | 1 | 7% |
| Perlumi | $339,503 | 1 | n/a |
| Pulsenics Inc | $334,032 | 3 | n/a |
| Rockfix | $329,920 | 2 | n/a |
| Lbnl | $321,973 | 1 | n/a |
| Kano Therapeutics | $310,920 | 3 | n/a |
| AsimicA Inc | $309,920 | 3 | n/a |
| Banyu Carbon Inc | $296,329 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 126 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Circe Bioscience Inc | $1,268,986 | 2 | n/a |
| Irradiant Technologies | $677,078 | 1 | n/a |
| Berkeley Lab Foundation | $456,006 | 1 | 7% |
| Perlumi | $339,503 | 1 | n/a |
| Pulsenics Inc | $334,032 | 3 | n/a |
| Rockfix | $329,920 | 2 | n/a |
| Lbnl | $321,973 | 1 | n/a |
| Kano Therapeutics | $310,920 | 3 | n/a |
| AsimicA Inc | $309,920 | 3 | n/a |
| Banyu Carbon Inc | $296,329 | 3 | n/a |
| Osmoses Inc | $296,180 | 2 | n/a |
| Photonect | $288,366 | 3 | n/a |
| Gel Matter | $286,920 | 2 | n/a |
| Anthology Biotechnologies Inc | $280,507 | 2 | n/a |
| Feon Energy | $279,172 | 3 | n/a |
| Pascal Technologies Inc | $274,093 | 2 | n/a |
| Blaze Energy Technologies Corporation | $273,717 | 2 | n/a |
| Brekland Incorporated | $273,705 | 2 | n/a |
| Hit Nano Inc | $214,833 | 2 | n/a |
| Anew Material Inc | $214,560 | 2 | n/a |
| Raven Space Systems Inc | $214,209 | 2 | n/a |
| Icarus Quantum Inc | $213,737 | 2 | n/a |
| Heliotrope Photonics Inc | $213,735 | 2 | n/a |
| Lumistrain | $213,305 | 2 | n/a |
| Andros Innovation Inc | $212,333 | 2 | n/a |
| Tatta Bio | $211,333 | 1 | 13% |
| Rstream Recycling Inc | $208,333 | 2 | n/a |
| Vitro3d Inc | $208,333 | 2 | n/a |
| Elateq Inc | $208,333 | 2 | n/a |
| Robotics 88 Inc | $204,267 | 2 | n/a |
| Nanoscale Fishing LLC | $203,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Vellex Computing | $200,427 | 2 | n/a |
| Elysium Robotics LLC | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Takachar | $195,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rapid Radicals Technology Inc | $191,667 | 1 | n/a |
| Daqus Energy | $189,764 | 1 | n/a |
| Phnx Materials Inc | $188,333 | 1 | n/a |
| Varada Agriculture Inc | $185,430 | 2 | n/a |
| Carbon Infuse Inc | $178,939 | 1 | n/a |
| Drul Inc | $178,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Hyperion Transport Systems Inc | $178,376 | 1 | n/a |
| Elysia Creative Biology | $158,333 | 2 | n/a |
| Carbion | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| One-D Nano | $134,538 | 1 | n/a |
| Calectra Inc | $130,083 | 2 | n/a |
| Supercarb Inc | $130,033 | 2 | n/a |
| Coflux Purification Inc | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Praio Inc | $119,395 | 1 | n/a |
| Opera Bioscience | $110,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Vectorwave Corporation | $108,833 | 1 | n/a |
| Motibera Inc | $108,808 | 1 | n/a |
| Limelight Steel Inc | $106,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Soctera Inc | $106,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Solidec Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Anvil Diagnostics Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Radical Plastics Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cella Mineral Storage Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Still Bright | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Closed Composites Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aeroshield Materials Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Standard Potential Co | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Atolla Tech | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vycarb | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sublime Systems Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mithril Technologies Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sharp Diagnostics LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Juno Propulsion | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Concerto Biosciences Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| FORAY bioscience | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Osrostrum Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bairitone Health Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Newfound Materials Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Capillary Nanotechnologies Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dottir Labs Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sinkco Labs Pbc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Orien Energy Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Exciplex Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Plumajet Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pseudolithic Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Quorum Bio Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nextglass LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sixline Semiconductor | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lucidean Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Allium Engineering | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arbon Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Resolute Methane Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vyir Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Flux XII Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ivu Biologics Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| SiTration Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Electrified Thermal Solutions | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wild Microbes Company | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Found Energy Co | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eva Technology Corp | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Reynko Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arrakis Materials | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cobi Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tensora Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| ChloBis Water Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| SoloPulse Corp | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| REEgen Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pumpkin Baby Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Innate Energy Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Terra Watts | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Geolabe LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Impact Cooling Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Turnover Technologies Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Florrent Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lithios Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boston Atomics LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trophic LLC | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rhoic Inc | $40,091 | 1 | n/a |
| Osmoses Inc | $25,240 | 1 | n/a |
| Membravo | $10,923 | 1 | n/a |
| Alkali Labs Inc | $10,533 | 1 | n/a |
| Sili-Ion Inc | $10,533 | 1 | n/a |
| Deep Anchor Solutions Inc | $9,673 | 1 | n/a |
| Carbide Radio Inc | $9,283 | 1 | n/a |
| Advanced & Innovative Multifunctional Materials LLC | $9,283 | 1 | n/a |
| Gallox Semiconductors Inc | $8,833 | 1 | n/a |
| Edulis Labs Inc | $8,833 | 1 | n/a |
| Retrn Bioworks | $8,833 | 1 | n/a |
| Page Technologies | $8,833 | 1 | n/a |
| Netpreme Corporation | $8,833 | 1 | n/a |
| Nanoscale Fishing LLC | $8,646 | 1 | n/a |
| Biowraptor | $8,333 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($852k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: ACT Institute Inc · Breakthrough Energy Foundation
How this is measured
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About Activate Global Inc
- How much does Activate Global Inc give?
- Activate Global Inc reported 77 itemized grants totaling $10,625,550, out of $17,190,126 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 51 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Activate Global Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (83%), Religion (5%), Environment (3%).
- Who are Activate Global Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Circe Bioscience Inc ($1.3M), Irradiant Technologies ($677k), Berkeley Lab Foundation ($456k).
- Does Activate Global Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 84% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Activate Global Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include ACT Institute Inc, Breakthrough Energy Foundation.
- Where is Activate Global Inc based?
- Activate Global Inc is based in CA.
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