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O’Shaughnessy Fellowships & Grants

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opportunity
Fellowship
total funding
$10,000 - $100,000
Stage
Stage 1 - I have an idea
Stage 2 - I'm ready to test my idea
application deadline
April 30, 2025
LOCATION
Remote
funding Type
Fellowship and Grant
funding PERIOD

The O’Shaughnessy Fellowships & Grants program unites the world’s most bold and undiscovered researchers, builders, and creatives from all over the world to discover, build, and spread path-breaking ideas and supports their journey with equity-free funding of up to $100,000.

O'Shaughnessy Fellows and Grantees are open-sourcing quantum computing, saving dying languages, helping the disabled in Zambia, researching brain simulations, making documentaries about the future of the human race, creating viral songs that last a 1000 years, building mechanical hands for amputees, researching data storage in plants and much much more.

Please fill out the form below to join our merchants of light in the quest for advancing humanity one project at a time.

$100,000 For Researchers, Builders and Creatives.

Go from idea to reality, while keeping 100% ownership.

What if you had $100k to pursue your boldest ideas?

What if we told you we want to champion your most hare-brained, out-there, eye-wateringly ambitious idea?

What if the only thing standing in your way is an application form and a few calls?

No, this isn’t too good to be true.

This is the O’Shaughnessy Fellowships & Grants. A one-year program that unites the world’s most bold and undiscovered researchers, builders and creatives to find, build and spread new ideas.

In just two years, we’ve scoured over 140 countries to find and fund 55 extraordinary innovators, leading to six companies & non-profits, five documentaries, >2.2 billion views on YouTube, and the blossoming of numerous scientific, creative, and technological projects.

What will YOU do with one year and $100k?

Grants Program

The Grants program helps even more people to unleash their potential.

Alongside our ten Fellowships, up to twenty individuals will each receive a $10,000 grant and access to OSV’s network of founders, investors, and experts to support them in bringing their projects to life.

There is no separate application process for the Grants program. Winners will be selected based on their Fellowship Application form.

Learn more about O’Shaughnessy Ventures

More about O’Shaughnessy Ventures

O’Shaughnessy Ventures is the passion project of Jim O’Shaughnessy, a pioneer in the field of quantitative investing and founder of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management. OSV combines Jim’s deeply rooted interest in all things art, science, investing and tech with his long-held desire to establish positive sum scenarios designed to help promising creators and their inspiring ideas succeed, regardless of age, location, job history or level of education.

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