Wade Shen

Actuate Innovation, Inc. is a private company that addresses societal challenges such as climate change mitigation, good health, trustworthy data and information, and opportunity for every person. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA and was founded by Wade Shen and Arati Prabhakar. The company uses a method called "solutions R & D" which weaves together research insights and lessons from the real world to demonstrate new capabilities that change what's possible. In May 2023, Actuate the 501(c)3 will cease its operations, but the work of Actuate will continue through other vehicles. Actuate Climate has joined forces with the Prime Coalition, a nonprofit that steers and influences capital to support scalable solutions to climate change. The team has become Prime's Early Catalytic Infrastructure (ECI) program. Arati Prabhakar has been the CEO since incorporation.