Funding the Future
Activate invests in early market leaders whose technologies are fundamentally transforming the industrial economy.
Our Approach
The world is undergoing transformational changes, creating a generational opportunity to rebuild our energy, mobility and industrial infrastructure for the next 100 years. The opportunity to invest in companies that are creating a clean, connected and sustainable future drives all of our work.
Energy Storage
DERs & DERMS
Wind and Solar
Grid Digitization
Smart Buildings
New renewable energy capacity added in next five years
Big Data & Predictive Analytics
Machine Learning & AI
Device Cyber Security
Cloud Computing
Communications & Connectivity
Devices connected to “Internet of things” by 2020
Smart Cities
Shared Mobility
Supply Chain Localization
On-Demand Services
Percentage of population who will live in cities by 2050
EV Charging Infrastructure
Intelligent Vehicles
Batteries & EV to Grid
Electric-Autonomous Convergence
Electric vehicles sold annually by the year 2030
Electrification of Everything
Smart Roads & Parking
Drone Delivery Networks
Building Information Modeling
Asset Cyber Security
Global infrastructure spending over next 10 years
Activate's focus sectors contribute almost 90% of all global GHG emissions. We invest in companies whose technologies are moving the traditional industrial-infrastructure economy into the future - a digitalized, sustainable ecosystem of Intelligent Processes and Smart Real Assets.
Building intelligent networks of clean and distributed infrastructure while facilitating more efficient consumption through smarter management of built environments.
Enabling the intelligent and frictionless movement of people and goods across cities and supply-chains.
Reimagining industrial environments, processes and systems to be intelligent, efficient, automated and safe.
Activate invests in companies with proven technology situated at a commercial inflection point. We target early market leaders with a differentiated approach to solving a fundamental market problem for their customers.
Activate provides flexible equity solutions that allow companies to maximize their growth potential. We operate as partners first and find entrepreneurs with the shared ambition to build category defining companies of scale and impact.
This is us
We have more than 80 years of collective experience and know what it takes to build and scale category defining companies.
Our Team