Discover Extraordinary Grantees

Aadeshwar Aadeshwar

India

AI/ML, Robotics

stealthy tactical reconnaissance bot. India is facing security challenges - Insurgency, Illegal coastal activity, securing trade routes, Illegal Immigration, nation state aggressors and we loose our soldiers in really demanding terrains like Kashmir and monitoring Chinese activity in a multi-domain threat environment is impossible with conventional methods.

Aarav Sharma

Singapore

AI/ML, BioTech

Cognitive Neuroscience for Brain-Controlled Prosthetics

Aaryan Harshith

United States

BioTech

The world's largest database of viruses

Aaryan Kushwah

India

HealthTech, Hardware

Monitoring system to help grandmothers and fathers sleep safer - called the grandma saver.

(1) Product Hunt selected us as a top product of the month and awarded us a $5k grant. (2) CSJ grant is annual and provides $30k in funding to hire a new grad

Pickup - The all in one platform for creating and joining pickup soccer games.

I’m working to develop a wearable AI-integrated biosensor that can track and predict hormonal fluctuations in real time for women, starting with estrogen and progesterone, two of the most misunderstood hormones in female health.

Cognitive architecture for LLMs

I am developing SightSense, affordable and effective assistive smart glasses for the visually impaired, targeting a price of $115 – a cost 17 times lower than comparable assistive tech on the market.

501c3 NGO teaching English to impoverished schools in rural China

Alexa Kayman

United States

EdTech, Social Impact

Ending tech debt with SAP migrations for enterprises

To pursue a project around synthetic fuel energy systems while understanding the industrial infrastructure of society.

Reverse logistics for surplus inventory

Enterprise Cybersecurity SaaS to provide context aware digital security

Andrew Nijmeh

Transportation, AI/ML

Instafleet, an AI frieght operations platform

Synchrotron is a graph-based live audio processing engine implemented entirely in pure Python, which can replicate a digital signal processing (DSP) engine, a synthesiser, a MIDI instrument, and more.

Over seventeen million people die from clogged arteries every year, and over sixty percent of drug treatments for chronic illnesses fail due to improper drug delivery standards.

Tangerine - an in-memory vector database

Obstacle-aware object tracking using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Arav Kumar

United States

AI/ML, Data

Agentically turning dirty data into clean stories

Ari Dutilh

United States

Agriculture, Food Tech

Giving microgrants to ambitious young people

A custom, affordable EEG system

Across society, millions of people don't have access to a stable, secure, and efficient power source. This not only hinders their capability for social progress but also takes a toll on their health as a whole.

I'm working to develop a novel CRISPR delivery method in plants to work towards price parity in gene-edited crops. Gene-edited crops have awesome potential to produce better foods with customization and precision.

Atharva Rao

Canada

Robotics, Agriculture

Robotic arm with soft gripper and camera for automatic destemming of plants like cilantro, coriander, etc.

Avi Schiffmann

United States

AI/ML, Social

Founder & CEO of Friend.com

A Multi-charging station

To start a community to do science and engineering

The global shrimp farming industry loses 40% of yield to preventable diseases. With current disease testing methodology, by the time farmers get results, their shrimp are oftentimes already dead.

Right now, I’m building a bio-printer to print stem cells to test for my current biology project and focus which is about creating customizable skin grafts.

Bradley Cox

Australia

EdTech, Analytics

Exam Insights - an educational platform revolutionizing exam preparation for senior secondary Australian students and educators

Brian Lemayian

Kenya

Hardware, EnergyTech

Autonomous Drone-based inspection of Power Line Infrastructure

turning acid mine drainage into raw materials for cement

Currently, I am building StratoSoar MK3. This will be my third year of research in autonomous, high-altitude aviation.

The ultimate Weblfow template for content creators.

Omni-directional VR treadmill

Daniel Martinez

Canada

EdTech, AI/ML

Received a $1000 regional award from Ingenious+ for GradeAssist, an AI-powered Scantron for Essays.

Creating systematic access in STEAM via podcasting.

I’m building an affordable, human-like robotic arm with dexterous hands for under $2000. The problem is that current robotic arms and hands are prohibitively expensive—costing $50,000–$100,000 (e.

Elena Mishina

Hungary

BioTech, Neuroscience

Neuroscience research on manipulating microglia to get rid of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain cortex, getting rid of neuroinflammation and slowing down the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

MuseMatrix, DeSci Fellowship program connecting scientists and web3/AI/zk developers to cross pollinate ideas and create tangible outputs (research & products)

I am building a software that automates and standardizes the validation of dried blood spot (DBS) specimens used in neonatal screening programs.

Filippo Fonseca

Costa Rica

E-commerce, Social

A secure funnel for selling anything to your friends and network.

Gavin Yuan

Manufacturing, Hardware

Propane and electric melting furnace for metal casting

Renewa Pack

Currently, I am working on an efficient and modern IoT platform, building on the knowledge I gained from my Raptor project.

Harish Ashok

India

EnergyTech, Hardware

An energy-saving smart home platform.

Harsh Agrawal

India

AI/ML, Developer Tools

DevGPT (getdevkit.com): DevGPT by DevKit combines ChatGPT and our 30+ mini-devtools to help you test public APIs, query databases, generate code and interactive art, and a lot more in just seconds to help you save 10s of hours every week!

No-code platform for governments, universities, and individuals to train, deploy, and commercialize neural machine translation models for digitally disadvantaged languages.

Hector Diaz

Peru

AI/ML

No-code platform for governments, universities, and individuals to train, deploy, and commercialize neural machine translation models for digitally disadvantaged languages.

Accelerating conceptual design workflows by 2x using AI

Ibraheem Razouki

United States

Social Impact, Non-profit

AIM to AID, the pioneering youth-led refugee-aid non-profit, has raised over $50,000, aided thousands globally through 25+ chapters across 3 continents, launched the Merhaba refugee app and a clothing brand generating $15,000 in sales.

Live Music Data Analytics Company

Using ML to predict active tuberculosis

Ivoine Strachan

Bahamas

Hardware, VR/AR

Full-body VR suit

Touchscreen Smart mirrors for the masses

Low cost micro weather stations for improved wildfire weather prediction

Augmented-reality, VR HMD which can see through walls using WiFi as radar — useful for first-responders.

Language Driven Modularity in Neural Networks. Endowing LLMs (GPT, Llama) with modularity via Vision & Control

Building an automated Speech & Language Pathologist (SLP) to enable people with speech/language impairments to get help without going bankrupt.

Explore solutions for menopause and measuring ovarian aging. Pivoted to work on rare diseases.

Rocket propelled skateboard

one of the first AI art platforms

Japanese Pre-seed Accelerator Program. Gave us the grant after rejecting us for a full investment.

Kenneth Sarip

United States

HealthTech, Hardware, Biotech

Headband Device to Monitor Glymphatic System

Keshav Sharma

United States

AI/ML, Manufacturing

AI models for multimodal input to accurate, error-free 3D CAD models for heavy industries

Four volleyball-obsessed engineering students build the world’s first setter robot, delivering volleyballs perfectly every time.

Khosraw Azizi

United States

EdTech, AI/ML

AI teaching assistant that saves teachers over 10hrs per week by automating busy work.

Hair clippers that can autonomously give you a haircut in minutes

I’m working on a prototype for a volumetric display that uses a rotating LED matrix to create images through persistence of vision.

I'm building an inexpensive subvocalization interpretation system to capture and interpret silent speech signals via EMG (electromyography) and EEG (electroencephalogram) data.

I'm building software and soon hardware for room-timetables at schools. The idea evolved from a spare stock of school-tablets, which would've gone to a landfill if there was no other use for them.

I am build ing a 6axis robotic arm with deep machine learning. So my problem is 2 things so you know when your screwing fixing or building somthing and your at a vital moment but you don’t have the right tool so you have to get up and sacrifice the part of your project to get a tool now with this robot Jeff will grab it and give it to me.

My aim is for it to be a faster, seamless, and better alternative to the current manual paper-based method of recording attendance (which is done on paper where we write our name, matric number, and sign) in my university, which is prone to errors like lost papers and manual transcription mistakes.

Luke Farritor

United States

Government, Space

DOGE Founding Eng and Vesuvius Challenge Winner

Malhar Bhide

United States

HealthTech, AI/ML

Detecting signs of schizophrenia using actigraphy data

Canada's largest undergrad conference on AI (CUCAI) at 18 & 19.

A violence encounter tool to get help and capture unsafe situations (https://joinsafe.me)

A Biomedical search engine and ontology builder

From all 3 grant I was and still am working on a higly efficient and adaptive tree planting hexapod to end with reforestation limitations.

I'm building a (small, maybe 2-3 octave) electric keyboard with knobs that can control various aspects of the sound, such as the attack, decay, reverb, glissando, brightness/mellowness of tone, etc.

an AI language tutor based on WhatsApp

High-altitude balloons are used to research meteorological conditions in the upper atmosphere twice a day by the National Weather Service.

Mo Mahmood

United States

Construction, Real Estate

More Monuments is building the next world wonder in America

TEENFiT is a non profit organisation raising awareness about teenagers' fitness

Neal Chopra

United States

EdTech, AI/ML

Secant — Your AI teaching assistant.

Now, I am building a solar powered UAV, with the aim to keep it in the sky practically forever. I plan to add a micro camera onto it, so that anyone anywhere in the world can track where the plane is, get it's telemetry, and see the live footage ( delayed slightly ofc due to low speed connections ).

For building An affordable and interactive robot to provide easy access to STEM education

Phage Bank

Zapier for generative AI/apps workflows - allowing non-technical people to use in-house models for data privacy (project discontinued)

Onkar Batra

United States

Space, Hardware

19yo YC-backed Founder of Bitfrost Orbital

Many prominent hydroponic farms declared bankruptcy, leading to a significant pullback in investor enthusiasm. The root cause of this crash was a lack of understanding among founders on how best to manage the costs of operating a hydroponic farm.

I'm building India's first commercially available reusable rocket engine specifically designed for students and educational institutions.

Currently, I am developing Project: Sixth-Sense. If I were to sum it up, it is basically spidey-sense that actually moves your body.

Phil Sergenti

United States

FinTech, AI/ML

alternative credit scoring models

MunchPal - Helping grocery shopping with dietary requirements easier

JARVIS for the visually impaired

Studying diet-omic associations and its impact on insulin resistance with the Snyder Lab @ Stanford

OpenAI assesses if you are building a startup of value and will give you a grant based on that.

BugBeGone: a sustainable, electricity-free, and effective mosquito killing bio-device

Nuclear e-bay

Rebecca Wang

United States

EdTech, Safety

AI-first school safety device

Low-cost Nuclear Waste Reprocessing.

Richa Pandya

Canada

HealthTech, Robotics

An open-source wearable to help people with severe motor disorders (like ALS, cerebral palsy, locked-in syndrome) communicate using just their tongue movements.

BrailleBox - a product that enables low vision individuals to read physical books and view scenes through live time AI-powered Braille conversion

Making every crop on Earth machine-readable.

To establish a supply-side housing policy think tank in Ireland.

Ryan Morrissey

United Kingdom

Cybersecurity, Enterprise

21st century access management

Self Driving Cars in India

2 (Harry sent me :))

A group buy platform for essential medication in Kenya.

Engineering a motorized exoskeleton from my dorm room to enhance human strength and endurance.

HeartHear is a groundbreaking ear-wearable device designed to detect heart and circulation diseases using machine learning and a combination of sensors.

Battery health software

Currently, I am designing and building a hand prosthesis that utilizes shape memory alloys to serve as actuators instead of motors.

Project Celeste: The world's first-ever pulse jet powered VTOL, pushing the boundaries of rocketry and autonomous propulsion systems.

Moving to Bengaluru for exploring industrial infrastructure (especially manufacturing and energy industry) and building alternate environments for doing science and engineering. (Me and my two friends got it together)

An open source, modular, and autonomous research vessel capable of traveling long distances highly efficiently. Deploy once, research anywhere on Earth within hours.

I’m building an open-source bipedal robot (based on Michigan Robotics's Legolas (https://github. com/daviddoo02/Legolas-an-open-source-biped) —but the real project is the comprehensive, public-facing documentation behind it.

As I mentioned before, I'm basically looking to build an autonomous drone swarm that has lots of use cases—starting from search and rescue to helping in disaster relief and many other applications.

Revolutionizing reading for dyslexic individuals with AR glasses that dynamically adapt text in real-time based on user preferences, enhancing fluency for a personalized and seamless reading experience

Organ — a wearable to enable the human data layer for personalized, preventive healthcare ML.

Creator tools for onchain creators

Spike O'Carroll

United States

Transportation, AI/ML

Sentinel — AI dashcam to catch when truckers fall asleep at the wheel or get distracted

Srijon Sarkar

United States

BioTech, HealthTech

To research protein design for defining a VIP receptor antagonist for pancreatic cancer and for general career development too.

a multi-cloud platform that auto-provisions infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP, to simplify the deployment process.

Sunir Manandhar

United States

Hardware, Robotics

To build Self Driving RC Car as testing platform to test ideas and hypotheses.

Cloning and Co-expression of Holin and Endolysin Genes from Salmonella Typhi Phages for Controlled Bacterial Lysis and Antibacterial Activity

I'm currently working on July Bionical Arm, which is a low-cost, locally sourced robotic prosthetic hand that uses AI to decode signals from the user’s nervous system.

Developing EEG-integrated earbuds for continuous neuromonitoring and early detection of brain abnormalities.

Tehseen Dahya

Canada

Network Infrastructure, AI/ML

Using Machine Learning to Optimize Internet Networks in rural areas

I am building GoldenHue by i‑VeNTILATE: a compact, AI-powered, solar-enabled phototherapy device designed to treat neonatal jaundice in low-resource settings.

making gardening more easier and accessible through an ai-powered computer chip

Theodore Jaffee

United States

Media, Content

Theo Jaffee Podcast

Studying the genetic diversity of cryptococcus species complex in plateau State Nigeria.

Tom Ough

United States

Media, Science Communication

Epistolary hub to connect scientists and small-scale innovators & amplify their voices / podcast on Anglofuturism

We are developing a comprenhensive maternal health platfrom for mothers

I built a language-based machine learning model for accelerated computational drug discovery.

Qubit by Qubit by The Coding school and GGRP by QUAE

Human Accelerator program for ambitious 13-19 year olds, focused on Emerging tech, made at scale.

research on building a bms powered by sodium batteries for EV

Renergy Technologies' product suite, EcoWise, is an AI and IOT driven predictive preventive maintenance platform for refrigeration and HVAC assets for Grocery stores and Quick Service restaurants. We call it as Apple watch for health monitoring of refrigeration and HVAC assets

Counting calories intake 10x more accurately with novel wrist worn sensor technology.

AI literacy startup

I’m building Ethos, a simple, reliable flight computer for model rockets. It will collect pressure, acceleration, and gyroscope data, have onboard GPS, RF telemetry, and handle staging and parachute deployment.

I am building a computer from scratch. And what better way than building a computer from first principles.

Alljoined - A dataset for EEG-to-Image decoding (currently working on image reconstructions now)

growing neurons and measuring cognitive complexity

Changing the world with efficient, solid hydrogen storage, appeals to rationality, and cool physics. -- Tyler Cowen's words not mine

Yuvan Arvind

India

AI/ML, Web Development

Build one-pager websites from whatsapp chat