Basis Fellowship

About

The Basis Fellowship offers $50,000 in unrestricted, no-equity funding and a lifelong community to operators, engineers, scientists, and other builders pursuing ambitious work, with rolling applications and a 2026 founding cohort.

Benefits

• 💰Funding
  $50,000 with no equity taken, no reporting and no restrictions on how it is spent
• 🌐Network
  A lifelong community of fellows across engineering, science and operations
• 🧭Advisors
  Access to advisors including David Cahn (Sequoia), Kate Rubins, Spiros Michalakis (Caltech), Xuanhe Zhao (MIT) and Paul DiTuro
• 🎁Consolation Award
  $3,000, at the organisers’ discretion, for a strong application that doesn’t make the cohort
• 🔒Privacy
  Fellows choose whether to be announced or listed

Eligibility Criteria

• Open to Anyone
• Operators, engineers, scientists and anyone else can apply, with no stated stage, age or credential requirement
• Application
• Submit a portfolio and any other useful information, and answer the questions as honestly as possible, which takes about ten minutes
• Rolling Applications
• Applications are always open and never expire, and applicants can write again when something new happens

Target Region

Open worldwide

Target Sector

Agriculture & Food, Defense & Security, Education, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Government & Public Sector, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Real Estate & Construction, Retail & Consumer, Semiconductors & Electronics, Sports & Fitness, Telecommunications, Transportation & Logistics, Travel & Hospitality, Other