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1517 Medici Project
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- Free allowance
- 'We give $1k cash grants to students and people early in their careers to build projects and prototypes advancing the edge of scientific research', described in the fund's own post as 'a minimum $1K stipend'.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe payment rail fails before anything else: the fund states in its own post that it cannot issue grants to teams based outside North America, so a client based elsewhere is excluded regardless of project quality, and the amount is only...
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | 'We give $1k cash grants to students and people early in their careers to build projects and prototypes advancing the edge of scientific research', described in the fund's own post as 'a minimum $1K stipend'. Terms are genuinely unconditional: 'This is a no strings attached grant - we don't own you, your project, any IP generated, future equity in anything you generate, etc. It's a Venmo payment.' The route is an email with 'a five minute Loom video' to any partner at the fund. Eligibility is by career stage rather than by institution: 'high school, college students, and dropouts'. The geographic limit is stated plainly. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-time-grant |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) the payment rail fails before anything else: the fund states in its own post that it cannot issue grants to teams based outside North America, so a client based elsewhere is excluded regardless of project quality, and the amount is only about USD 1,000 even when it does pay. source
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| Identity | card the fund states it cannot pay outside North America: '1517 supports hackers and makers all over the world through community and mentorship but unfortunately due to international regulations and rules, we are unable to issue grants to teams based outside of North America.' The payment rail named is Venmo, which is US-only, and the post also mentions cheques. |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | Nothing composes for a client outside North America: the award is USD 1,000 by Venmo, which is both too small to matter and unreachable from the wrong country. Inside North America it would be a genuine no-strings USD 1,000 with the widest IP terms in this class. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | A REFUTATION of the shape rather than of the programme: this is the cleanest illustration in the class that 'no strings attached' and 'anywhere in the world' are separate claims, and that the payment rail is the one that decides reachability. The fund is candid about it, which is why the record can be documented rather than inferred. Note the parent fund's own page does not state an upper bound and describes the award as a minimum, so 'at least USD 1,000' is the correct reading; no published example of a larger Medici award was found. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | www.1517fund.com/medici | 'we are unable to issue grants to teams based outside of North America'; 'This is a no strings attached grant - we don't own you, your project, any IP generated, future equity in anything you generate, etc. It's a Venmo payment.'; 'we would love to hear from you. Email us (any of us with [address removed]) with a five minute Loom video'; '1517 Medici Project works with high school, college students, and dropouts'; 'a minimum $1K stipend'; quoted; page 200 |
| 2026-10-22 | www.1517fund.com/medici | the same page records the programme's origin as in-person scouting at 'office hours, hackathons, frat houses, and high school classrooms across the country' with 'No application, no competition theatre', which explains why the published route is an email rather than a form |
| 2026-10-21 | openmedici.com/programs/1517-medici-project | an aggregator records the same restriction on 2026-10-21: 'Teams outside North America may receive community and mentorship, but the fund says international rules can prevent it from issuing them grants', and records the amount floor as 'USD 1000.00' per project, reported and consistent with the first-party page |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "refutation","free_tier_kind": "one-time-grant","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 7
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field