Every grantee.
Every cohort.
One page.
Emergent Ventures is Tyler Cowen's grant program for young people, weirdos, and the under-funded fringes of human ambition. We compiled every announcement into one explorable atlas.
By the numbers.
What they're building.
Categories are assigned based on Tyler's own one-line description. A grantee writing about epidemiology lands in Bio; a podcaster about China lands in Writing / Media. Crude, but useful for shape.
Cohort 53
Benjamin Unger
AI to measure the performance of New York governments.
Maarten Boudry
To write a book on who is really for progress, or not.
Allan Wandia
Foundation models that learn directly from raw experimental data.
Jordan Unokesan
Trust scoring for government contractors.
Alexander Griffiths
Infrastructure policy and decisions.
Deeper dives.
David Perell
Support for his work in podcasting and social media.
Kelly Smith
To further extend and organize a parent-run charter school system in Arizona, Prenda.
Mark Lutter
Center for Innovative Governance Research, on charter cities and creating a new charter city.
Kyla Scanlon
Produce content on economics, including a new documentary.
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