Sentient Open AI Investment

Sentient Foundation

Founder-friendly investment for companies building open AI products for global scale, with rolling applications and no fixed deadline.

What you get

Not publishedEquity investment

“$42 million committed across the grant and investment program. No investment size or allocation between tracks is published.”

Equity takennot published

Strings attachedInvestment terms and ownership are not published. The essential open component must remain genuinely open.

Can you apply

VC backingNot required

Referral or partnerNot required

Registered companynot stated

Individualsnot stated

Open sourceProject must be open source

CountriesOpen worldwide

Before you applyThe applicant must be building a company intended to scale. At least one essential component must be genuinely open and central to the product's value and adoption.

For companies built to get big. Founder-friendly terms. One essential part of what you are building must be genuinely open and core to the product's value and adoption.

When

Always open, applications reviewed on a rolling basis.

What Sentient Foundation funds

Supports builders making open AGI useful, accessible and community-owned. Funds open source research and public goods through grants, and backs companies building open AI products through investment.

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Details

This is the investment track of Sentient Foundation's $42 million combined commitment to open AGI builders. It is intended for companies built to scale and uses founder-friendly terms. Support can include compute credits, engineering help, distribution and access to the foundation's builder community. At least one essential part of the product must be genuinely open, such as its model, weights, code, data or evaluations. The foundation does not publish cheque sizes, ownership terms or how the total commitment is divided between grants and investments.

Apply on Sentient Foundation

Read off the Sentient Foundation page on 16 Aug 2026. Funders move amounts and eligibility without announcing it, so confirm any figure here before you count on it.