The First Light Initiative
A guiding light for the next generation of polymaths and creatives.
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Funding
Submissions
| Status | |
|---|---|
| Season 7 | |
| Apollo Fund for the New Renaissance | Curated |
| Season 6 | |
| Apollo Fund for the New Renaissance | Curated |
| Community Network Fund | Submitted |
| Lovepunks Fund for Experiential Culture | Submitted |
| Future Aesthetics Fund: Worlds Worth Building | Submitted |
| Learning Layer Fund for AI Frontiers | Submitted |
| Creative Wellness Fund | Submitted |
| Edge City Fund for Human Flourishing | Submitted |
| Embodied Mastery Transmission Fund for Living Lineages | Removed |
| Open Infrastructure Fund for Human Coordination | Removed |
| Terminus Fund for Network States | Removed |
| Funding the Commons Frontier Fund | Removed |
Top siblings
| Project | Funds | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. The Flourishing Endowment: Community Funding with Digital Twins A living experiment in AI-assisted, human-led governance, where each member's digital twi… |
1 | |
| 2. Libp2p: The Internet Without Gatekeepers We are building the core networking layer for a decentralized internet powering peer-to-p… |
1 | |
| 3. Gifting Games: Edge Esmeralda Meets Healdsburg Go out into the world and connect with strangers through random acts of kindness. Learn a… |
1 | |
| 4. Possibilia Magazine - Issue 0 A print literary magazine of optimistic, realistic sci-fi | Short stories with scientist… |
1 | |
| 5. The Agora Series: Interdisciplinary Salons for Human Flourishing Interdisciplinary salons where artists, scientists, builders, and contemplatives treat di… |
1 | |
| 6. Every Other Breath - Animating the Marine Carbon Cycle A hand-drawn animation about how marine life supports planetary life and how to rewild th… |
1 | |
| 7. Don't Worry Darling It's Just An Art Project literally the most collectible art on the planet |
1 | |
| 8. The Vision Guide Vision integration workbook to support all creators on Artizen in living, working, and cr… |
1 | |
| 9. POSITs Positive Intelligence Topologies: an expansive platform for building collective coherence… |
1 | |
| 10. Edge City India A month-long popup village in India where frontier builders prototype the future — timed… |
1 |
Other funds of top siblings
| Fund | Siblings | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Edge City Fund for Human Flourishing $60,647 |
4 | |
| 2. Learning Layer Fund for AI Frontiers $3,753 |
2 | |
| 3. Emergent Creativity Fund for Conscious Collaboration $10,753 |
1 | |
| 4. Paradigm Fund for Frontier Tech $11,479 |
1 | |
| 5. Open Infrastructure Fund for Human Coordination $33,395 |
1 | |
| 6. Feÿtopia Fund for Extitutional Communities $55,924 |
1 | |
| 7. Future Aesthetics Fund: Worlds Worth Building $53,638 |
1 | |
| 8. Ocean Fund for Living Seas $16,971 |
1 | |
| 9. ODIN Fund for Decentralized Innovation $3,489 |
1 | |
| 10. Funding the Commons Frontier Fund $111,735 |
1 |