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AI Grant

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AI Grant is an accelerator-style fund for seed-stage AI startups, run by Hersh Desai and Lenny Bogdonoff and backed by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross with a $10M commitment. It invests $250,000 on an uncapped SAFE plus large compute and tooling credit packages (including $350,000 in Azure credits), and has funded 85 companies across four batches. It also maintains a separate grant track for open-source AI projects.1,2

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seed-stage AI startups, open-source AI projects.

Typical size$250k uncapped SAFE plus credits
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