Emergent Ventures
Emergent Ventures supports thinkers and doers worldwide through fellowships, project grants, and mentor access to advance original, highly scalable ideas that meaningfully improve society.
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Funder: Emergent Ventures
Due Dates: Rolling (no application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Project-specific funding; no typical grant range or average award amount
Summary: Fellowships and grants support thinkers and doers worldwide pursuing highly scalable, original ideas that meaningfully improve society.
Key Information: AI-written applications are rejected; AI use is permitted only for proofreading.
Description
Emergent Ventures is a low-overhead fellowship and grant program administered by Mercatus Center Faculty Director Tyler Cowen. It supports thinkers and doers worldwide pursuing highly scalable, “zero to one” ideas with the potential to create transformative social change. The program seeks high-reward ideas—including moonshots—that advance prosperity, opportunity, liberty, and well-being, and welcomes unusual and unorthodox approaches.
Support is tailored to participants: some receive a fellowship, while others receive grant funding for their projects. The program combines financial support with mentor access. Alongside its general grant program, Emergent Ventures offers geographic and subject-focused funding. It encourages ambitious proposals but also considers very small grants that could change an applicant’s life trajectory. Projects may generate profit, and a path to revenue self-sufficiency is welcomed.
