- Free allowance
- '1 Year. Up to $100,000.' The site states 'All Fellows receive up to $100,000 equity-free' and 'Every year, dozens of Fellows receive between $10,000 - $100,000 in equity-free funding, tailored to the scope of their vision'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gateda three-stage competitive selection with a published ratio of 24 fellows chosen from 11,813 applications fails first, so the constraint is the odds rather than the identity or the money.
- Evidence
- documented5 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 | '1 Year. Up to $100,000.' The site states 'All Fellows receive up to $100,000 equity-free' and 'Every year, dozens of Fellows receive between $10,000 - $100,000 in equity-free funding, tailored to the scope of their vision'. A sister grants lane pays 'at-least $10,000' to about 20 more people a year, and 'All Fellowship applicants are automatically considered for Grants'. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-time-grant |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) a three-stage competitive selection with a published ratio of 24 fellows chosen from 11,813 applications fails first, so the constraint is the odds rather than the identity or the money. source
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| Identity | email an adult individual anywhere in the world. The FAQ says 'open to adults worldwide, regardless of their background', the application is online, the program is remote, and the published winners list carries fellows resident in Nepal, India, Japan, Ireland, Australia and Canada beside the United States, which is observable proof that a non-US individual is selected. |
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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 | What it cannot do is be relied on, because the odds are about one in 270. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The strongest sibling found, and the one that makes this class worth a document. It is better shaped than the Open Intelligence Foundation offer on four counts the operator states itself: the top amount is an order of magnitude larger, the payment is cash rather than a donated machine, the recipient keeps the IP, and the winner list is public, so selection is observable rather than anecdotal. The failure mode is arithmetic and must travel with the number: 24 fellows selected from 11,813 applications is 0.20 percent, and adding the roughly 20 grants lifts the ceiling to about 0.37 percent. The window has closed for 2026: applications ran 1 January to 30 April 2026 and the FAQ states 'There will be no deadline extensions'. Reopening on 1 January 2027 is an expectation from the posting pattern, not a published commitment; no 2027 dates appeared on any page read. One internal tension worth noting: the page's 'No committee approvals' line sits against a published three-stage process that runs through a team call and a deeper conversation before a decision, so read that line as framing rather than as a statement about process. |
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