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Activate and The Engine Accelerator team up to train scientists to become founders
Two prominent programs, Activate and The Engine Accelerator, have decided they can give founders an advantage if they team up.
“It felt like the closer we could get, the more work we could do together, the more we can feed into each other’s programs, and ultimately, see more throughput from these proto-founders to entrepreneurs,” Emily Knight, CEO of The Engine Accelerator, told TechCrunch. A significant number of the proto-founders who completed the recent Blueprint program run by The Engine ended up being awarded an Activate fellowship. They’ll maintain separate application and admissions flows for the time being, though it’s possible something like the college “common app” might develop for founders who might find both programs useful.
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