Philosophy

The genesis of young people changing the world plays out like this.

They have an idea that they care about, they take a small amount of money to make it real, and realize in the process that they’re really good at it.

This leads to their ambition getting bigger and bigger and bigger - to the extent that the world cannot contain it anymore.This is why we fund students, and it doesn’t matter how small they start.

Company. $200k to work on your idea full-time.

A company is different from a project when you commit full-time to it. That requires courage. The courage to give up on comfortable conventional paths and work on something important for an extended period of time.

We fund teams that are in their final year of college, or are choosing to drop out, or have recently graduated: and are committing to building full-time.

We can still fund you with $60k, if there’s time before you decide to be full time i.e. you are 1-2 years from graduating.

List of companies

List of companies

Atomic Fellowship. $60k for science and engineering projects.

How breakthroughs are achieved is exploratory in nature - it’s by going into the depths of a field and stumbling upon a problem that hasn’t been widely articulated yet. The theory of relativity emerged from Einstein reading the fine print in Maxwell’s work. But breakthroughs are happening less and less in academia.

The AI revolution happened with a “small group of motivated scientists and engineers who explored”. A small group of highly motivated people can discover what the biggest institutions will miss.

There are many more things to be done: in robotics, physics, biology, and maybe some computer science.

The fellowship provides up to $60k in funding to support experimentation - equipment, materials, collaborators, and the time to test hypotheses properly. This could start as fixing a computer architecture loophole you noticed, making a new search engine, building a flight controller, or running physics simulations to find new materials.

In the past, some Atomic fellows have later turned their work into companies.

List of Atomic Fellows

List of Atomic Fellows

Feather Grant. upto $2.5k to work on any idea.

Self-belief is the most important internal monologue you can have with yourself - it is what enables young people to build things. Working on small imperfect projects and taking an idea into the real world helps build that belief.

We give out grants to students to bring their ideas to life.

List of Feather Grant Winners

List of Feather Grant Winners

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