What We Do
We catalyze philanthropic dollars for science, technology and innovation and inspire others to act.
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We Launch and Operate Breakthrough Funds
We design, incubate, and run time-bound, thesis-driven philanthropic funds. Philanthropists and foundations pool their resources into these funds which are led by field leaders who deploy funding based on a time-bound thesis. Learn more about our fund model here.
These time-bound, thesis-driven funds consist of philanthropists and foundations who act as LPs and field strategists who serve as General Partners (GPs) sourcing, funding, incubating, and scaling high-impact initiatives based on a thesis. Examples of our funds include:
AI for Math Fund
Advancing the pace of math discovery through the use of AI
AI & Education Fund
Betting on breakthrough technical ideas that can drive student success
ARC
Combatting catastrophic climate risks through translational R&D
Talent Mobility Fund
Enabling high-skill immigration through underused immigration pathways
UK Horizons
Strengthening the UK’s R&D ecosystem
PBIF
Improving social service delivery through technology and innovation
We build communities and cross-cutting capabilities that help us to launch and manage time-bound, thesis-driven funds. Communities help us to identify potential fund leaders and partners while capabilities help us to develop and implement compelling theses.
Capabilities
BiTS Accelerator
Talent accelerator to train scientists and technologists to design 8-figure moonshot programs.
Horizon Scanning
Convening top researchers across domains to identify emerging high-value research areas.
Translational capabilities
Structured frameworks to help convert science and research into real-world products and solutions
Technical Talent Hubs
Pooling specialized engineering talent which can be directed toward well-defined, high-priority projects.
Communities
ARPA PMs
Over 200 current and former PMs from organizations like DARPA, ARIA, ARPA-H, ARPA-E, IARPA, and others.
Learning Engineering Network
3,000+ learning science researchers, technologists, startup founders, and funders, interested in how to harness the rapid advances in learning sciences and computer science to support students.
PEN
A community of learning and practice of 170+ policy entrepreneurs with experience working across branches of government.
Philanthropic Fund Ecosystem
A growing community of philanthropic fund leaders.
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We match funders to the best ideas and initiatives
We appreciate that some of the boldest and most impactful ideas and initiatives already exist. We help funders to identify and support existing high-impact organizations by:
Matchmaking between funders’ goals and existing initiatives
Building multi-sector coalitions of actors to pursue shared missions (see our case study here)
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We Inspire Others to Act
We believe that we can create far more impact in the world by inspiring others to take action and giving them the tools they need to build a better future.
We open-source what works and help others launch high-impact initiatives by sharing our lessons, tools, and insights through playbooks, agenda-setting, convenings, and case studies.