

Activate x IQT x DCVC Networking Reception at the ARPA-E Summit 2025
The paths of innovation converge at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington DC- join Activate, In-Q-Tel (IQT), DCVC and many of our founders at the Summit! As leaders in nurturing transformative technology leaders, we're excited to host a reception at the frontier of hard tech.
Activate is dedicated to empowering the pioneers who are redefining the energy landscape. Our presence at the ARPA-E Summit underscores our commitment to fostering groundbreaking ideas and supporting the brilliant minds behind them.
Please join us at our reception, a vibrant gathering for leaders, innovators, and visionaries in the energy community. This event is your gateway to a community united by a passion for game-changing technological solutions.
Come for the food and drink, say hello, meet brilliant minds, and have a great time.
About Activate: Founded in 2015, Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by launching startups that use hard tech solutions to address the biggest global challenges. Working between government, philanthropy, universities, and the private sector, Activate transforms scientists into high-impact entrepreneurs through the Activate Fellowship, a two-year immersive experience that equips science entrepreneurs with the skills, networks, infrastructure, and funding they need to quickly and effectively bring their groundbreaking research to market.
About IQT: IQT is the not-for-profit strategic investor the U.S. national security community and America’s allies have relied upon for 25+ years to anticipate their technology questions and needs and achieve solutions. IQT identifies, evaluates, and leverages emerging commercial technologies to deliver best-in-class capabilities, insights, and other services to government partners through a unique global investment platform.
About DCVC: DCVC is deep tech venture capital. Over more than a dozen years, the firm has backed brilliant entrepreneurs using computational approaches to solve trillion-dollar problems in the real world across a broad set of industries, especially those that haven't seen material progress in decades.With billions of dollars of assets under management, DCVC builds long-term relationships with the founders it backs and has been with many of its companies from their very start—and through to their recognition by the public markets as category-defining businesses.