Innovation Month: Hybrid Activate Infosession: Backing Tufts Scientists on the Founder Track

Got breakthrough science you want to turn into a company? Activate is backing scientists on the founder track. Join us for a lunch and learn (sponsored by Activate) on their two-year fellowship, which provides funding, mentorship, and a community to help you drive hard tech into real-world impact. Activate has supported 294 fellows to date, who’ve gone on to raise $5.5B in follow-on funding and create 3,000 jobs.

The Activate team will introduce how the program works and what it offers researchers at every stage — from PhD students to postdocs — who are exploring whether their lab work could become a startup. We’ll also share the stories of two Activate teams from Tufts: Deco Labs and Entocellular. Entocellular won 1st place in the Healthcare & Life Sciences track of the 2025 Derby New Ventures Competition, is a Tufts Venture Accelerator alum, and completed NSF I-Corps with the Auster Center for Applied Innovation and Research.

This Innovation Month event is sponsored by Activate and co-hosted by the Auster Center for Applied Innovation and Research and the Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts.

Learn more about the Auster Center for Applied Innovation and Research at austercenter.tufts.edu.
Learn more about Derby Entrepreneurship Center at derbyecenter.tufts.edu.
Learn more about Activate at https://activate.org/.