Helping great scientists prototype their most ambitious ideas for good
Manifest Grants is a fast grants program that awards $25K – $100K to scientists to accelerate their most ambitious ideas to solve the world’s biggest problems.
We focus on translational research. The applications are max 2 pages, and you get a decision within 21 days. No IP is taken.
Are you an academic scientist working on a translational research idea for solving a big problem?
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Our next round will support all areas of deep tech. From synbio for climate to AI safety and alignment, tools to accelerate biology, drug discovery platforms, robotics, decarbonizing industrial processes, energy infrastructure, manufacturing, and more!
Applications will open in September 2025.
Why Manifest Grants?
Researchers are developing innovative solutions to disease, aging, the climate crisis, and other big world problems. But a few of these solutions ever make it out of the lab. Usually, when the basic science is done, there’s just a little more work left – prototyping, techno economic-modeling, real-world testing – to show the science has commercial potential. But almost no one funds such work.
We cannot afford potential solutions to sit idle. The world urgently needs new funding vehicles that empower scientists to quickly test if their most ambitious ideas are commercially viable. That’s why we started Manifest Grants – to bring breakthrough science from the lab to the benefit of all.
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