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OSV Fellowships & Grants 2025

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.


About You

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Main Questions

1) List 3 of your most exceptional achievements

2) What will you work on if you were accepted to the program?

Explain it in 1-2 sentences as simply as possible

3) Why are you the best person in the world to work on this?

4) Please include your pitch in a video format. (YouTube, Google Drive or Vimeo link)

(Video should be less than 1 minute; please make the video public or unlisted so that we can access it)

5) If selected, what will success look like once the fellowship period ends?

6) What might failure look like? What could be some of the original mistakes of your project?

7) Please upload a 1 page PDF outlining your action plan for your project.

(Font size: 10pt, Font: Arial, Line-spacing: 1.5)

8) Describe something that you find beautiful in the world.


Other Details

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Please review your application before submitting it. Application responses cannot be edited after submission