Emergent Ventures
Invests in founders and thinkers whose ideas could create outsized technological progress and societal impact.
Emergent Ventures is a low-overhead fellowship and grant program administered by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, launched in 2018 under faculty director Tyler Cowen. The program supports entrepreneurs, researchers, students, and independent thinkers worldwide who have highly scalable, "zero to one" ideas for meaningfully improving society. Applications are accepted on a rolling bas…
Scalable 'zero to one' ideas that meaningfully improve society, spanning entrepreneurship, research, and civic innovation; geographic sub-tracks available for India, Africa, the Caribbean, Ukraine, and AI.
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