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25 proposals
44 active projects
$2.05M
Grants226Impact certificates21
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AIVA OS: Causal Intelligence for Medicine

Reconstructs longitudinal patient state, identifies causal drivers, and runs simulations to prevent high severity clinical failures under fragmented data.

Science & technologyAI governanceGlobal health & development
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0
$0 / $500K
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Igor Labutin

AI:Save Our Souls

A tech-infused immersive musical. Experience the future of storytelling where artificial intelligence meets the depths of human emotion.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
2
0
$0 / $120K
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Sara Holt

Paper Clip Apocalypse (War Horse Machine)

Short Documentary and Music Video

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$0 / $40K
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Avinash A

Terminal Boundary Systems and the Limits of Self-Explanation

Formalizing the "Safety Ceiling": An Agda-Verified Impossibility Theorem for AI Alignment

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$0 / $30K
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Finn Metz

AI Security Startup Accelerator Batch #2

Funding 5–10 AI security startups through Seldon’s second SF cohort.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
4
6
$355K raised
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Melina Moreira Campos Lima

Public Food Procurement as a Climate Policy Tool in the EU

Assessing the Climate Potential of Catering Systems in Public Schools and Hospitals

Science & technologyAnimal welfareGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $30K
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Victor Hugo

OddScreener - real-time analytics for prediction markets

Real-time analytics terminal for Polymarket & Kalshi

Science & technology
1
0
$0 / $500
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Mirco Giacobbe

Formal Certification Technologies for AI Safety

Developing the software infrastructure to make AI systems safe, with formal guarantees

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
2
2
$128K raised
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Ella Wei

Testing a Deterministic Safety Layer for Agentic AI (QGI Prototype)

A prototype safety engine designed to relieve the growing AI governance bottleneck created by the EU AI Act and global compliance demands.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $20K
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Alex Leader

Offensive Cyber Kill Chain Benchmark for LLM Evaluation

Measuring whether AI can autonomously execute multi-stage cyberattacks to inform deployment decisions at frontier labs

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
2
$0 / $3.85M
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Justin Bianchini

FloraForge: Aesthetic Gene Editing in Petunias

A modular gene-editing platform for engineering new pigment patterns in ornamental plants, starting with a vein-pattern rescue line in petunias.

Science & technologyBiomedical
1
5
$5K raised
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Theia Vogel

Fund thebes' model tinkering

Research, tutorial writing, and open-source libraries & tools for experimenting with language models

Science & technology
5
9
$26.4K raised
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Joseph E Brown

Architectural Governance to Prevent Authority Drift in AI Systems

A constraint-first approach to ensuring non-authoritative, fail-closed behavior in large language models under ambiguity and real-world pressure

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
1
$0 / $30K
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Mackenzie Conor James Clark

AURA Protocol: Measurable Alignment for Autonomous AI Systems

An open-source framework for detecting and correcting agentic drift using formal metrics and internal control kernels

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$0 / $75K
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Markus Englund

Software to detect data fabrication

Continue developing ‘copy-paste-detective’ - a software that detects signs of data fabrication in scientific research - and run it against 20,000 publicly available Excel datasets.

Science & technologyACX Grants 2025
2
1
$50K raised
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Jade Master

SDCPNs for AI Safety

Developing correct-by-construction world models for verification of frontier AI

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$39K raised
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David Rozado

Disentangling Political Bias from Epistemic Integrity in AI Systems

An Integrative Framework for Auditing Political Preferences and Truth-Seeking in AI Systems

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyACX Grants 2025AI governanceForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$50K raised
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GG

Eradicate the hidden factory farming of feeder rodents

Developing and commercializing an alternative to feeder rodents—tackling one of the most neglected and high-suffering forms of factory farming.

Science & technologyACX Grants 2025Animal welfareBiosecurity
0
1
$50.2K raised
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Bryan Davis

OpenReg: AI tools for FDA application and reg compliance

A set of AI-powered open-source tools intended to shorten time-to-market for medtech innovators.

Science & technologyACX Grants 2025Biomedical
0
1
$50K raised
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Xyra Sinclair

SOTA Public Research Database + Search Tool

Unlocking the paradigm of agents + SQL + compositional vector search

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyBiomedicalAI governanceBiosecurityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $20.7K