Microgrant Guide - Discover and Apply to Microgrants

General Grants

(click on any of these to see details)

Emergent Ventures ($1k-$50k)
1517 Fund's Medici Project ($1k)
Merge Grant ($100-$999)
Formidable Fund ($1000)
Bagel Fund ($100-$500)
evm.capital ($100-$600)

Fellowship Programs

ZFellows ($10k)
OSV ($100k)
776 Foundation ($100k)
Magnificent Grants ($100k)
Non-Trivial ($15k-$30k)
Kothari Fellowship ($15k)
Nautilus (3mo paid-for gap program)

Sector/Geo Grants

(programs available to people in specific cities or sectors)

Solana Grants ($2k-$10k)
Protostars ($1k)
Sean's Grant ($1,000)
535 Fund ($100-$500)

Misc Resources

1517 Fund's Database of Grant Programs
Looking for grants? Fill out Merge's LFG form
Merge Pod features conversations with Mergers about what they're building and how they got started

Our Goal

Our mission with this Microgrant Guide and Merge Club is to put more non-dilutive capital into the hands of ambitious young builders. To achieve this, we believe three key steps are essential: raising awareness, improving the quality and availability of information, and growing the number of existing microgrant programs.

The Microgrant Guide addresses the first two challenges. It helps you discover and apply to programs offering non-dilutive funding by raising awareness of alternative opportunities and providing a centralized hub for all microgrant and non-dilutive capital information.