Solo Grants Microgrant

$100 to $1,000 for a solo builder's bill of materials, open to anyone of any age anywhere in the world, roughly ten days from application to funded.

What you get

$100–$1,000Cash

“Solo Grants cover the parts, compute, and materials, from $100 to $1,000, that stand between a passion project and the first version that works.”

Equity takenNone, non-dilutive

Time to decisionwithin 10 days

Strings attachedNone: "There's no accelerator to join, no reporting, no board seat, no repayment. It's a grant with a vote of confidence attached." The project is not required to become a business: "It doesn't have to become a business. Most of the time it isn't one."

Can you apply

VC backingNot required

Referral or partnerNot required

Registered companyNot required

IndividualsEligible

Open sourcenot stated

CountriesOpen worldwide

It's open to anyone, any age, anywhere in the world, especially for people who can't easily cover the cost of the build themselves. We take real life into account: work status, dependents, what you have coming in.

When

Always open, applications reviewed on a rolling basis.

What Solo Grants funds

Funds one person building one real thing. Covers the parts, compute and materials between a passion project and its first working version, with an explicit preference for builders who cannot easily cover the cost themselves and no expectation that the project becomes a business.

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Details

Applications are reviewed continuously via an Airtable form with no published rounds or deadlines. Published grants range from $100 to $1,000 against itemised bills of materials for hardware, lab reagents, PCB fabrication and compute. Commercial-stage projects are pointed at a separate Solo Founders program instead.

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