Last week Activate CEO Cyrus Wadia joined Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Development (EOED) Secretary Yvonne Hao, Undersecretary Ashley Stolba, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Chief Program Officer Galen Nelson, and Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer to celebrate the growing support for climate innovation in Massachusetts and the Governor's Mass Leads Act with leaders from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University at their new facilities in Boston. The event included leadership from the Wyss sustainability initiative Emily Stoler Pam Silver, and Wyss spin out company founders working in sustainability such as Marika Ziesack, Cofounder of Circe Biosciences and former Activate fellow. Circe Biosciences produces cocoa butter and other ingredient alternatives derived from CO2 using bioengineering technology developed at the Wyss Institute. The company has raised more than $8M to date and will be manufacturing their technology at a new facility in Waltham. Thank you to Harvard leadership Paul Hayre, M. William Lensch, George Sarrinikolaou, former Wyss company founders Timothy Wannier, Sukanya Punthambaker, Ph.D., Bill Brady and others including Ashika Kalra, Robert Cunningham, and Cortney Newell for your engagement on this event. We are so fortunate to have such great leaders in the Commonwealth supporting climate innovation!
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Yesterday Activate hosted an #earthday event with The Engine to recognize the historic Mass Leads Act from the Office of Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and the opportunities we have in front of us to support early-stage hard technology companies. Both public and private investment in innovative early-stage climate technology, biotechnology, and other hard technology companies are critical in addressing the many significant challenges our society is facing today. These companies will create jobs and economic growth, but they will also create hope that we can and will address issues from rising global temperatures to increasing rates in cancers. As the saying goes, "if you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." We will need to invest more in early-stage innovation to change the direction we are heading, to create a new future, and continue to redefine what is possible for humanity. Thank you to incredible leaders Aaron Michlewitz, Yvonne Hao, Jerry Parisella, Emily Reichert, Ashley Stolba, Emily Knight, Benjamin Downing, and Louis J. Kang for joining us as well as present and former Activate fellows Cheri Ackerman at Concerto Biosciences, Zhiao Yu at Feon Energy, Inc., Jinyoung Seo at Pascal, Steven Jepeal at Allium Engineering, Jing Zhang at Anthology, Augustine Zvinavashe at Ivu Biologics, Ioana Knopf at Arrakis Materials, and Timothy Wannier at Wild Microbes. A special thank you to the incredible Activate team Daniel Recht, Cortney Newell, Aimee Rose, Spencer Babcock, Greis Kasofo, and Kevin See.
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