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$1,000 1517 Medici Young Builders Grant

  • Organization: 1517 Fund
  • Type: Grant
  • Location: Global
  • Funding: Fully Funded

The 1517 Medici Project offers early-stage creators, especially students and dropouts, $1,000 grants to pursue innovative, passion-driven projects in fields like science, technology, and the arts, with minimal restrictions and a focus on unlocking future potential. Benefits include: - Direct Venmo or check payment (no equity, no IP claims, no strings attached) - Mentorship and connections from 1517 Fund (co-founders of the Thiel Fellowship) - Access to a community of peers and past recipients (e.g., Vitalik Buterin, Dylan Field, Laura Deming) Projects can be in science, technology, mathematics, arts, or other creative fields. Grants are intended to help you start building immediately, not as recognition for past work.

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$1,000 1517 Medici Young Builders Grant

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Opportunity type
Grant
Funding
Fully Funded
Location
Global
Deadline
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About this opportunity

The 1517 Medici Project offers early-stage creators, especially students and dropouts, $1,000 grants to pursue innovative, passion-driven projects in fields like science, technology, and the arts, with minimal restrictions and a focus on unlocking future potential.

Benefits include:

  • Direct Venmo or check payment (no equity, no IP claims, no strings attached)
  • Mentorship and connections from 1517 Fund (co-founders of the Thiel Fellowship)
  • Access to a community of peers and past recipients (e.g., Vitalik Buterin, Dylan Field, Laura Deming)

Projects can be in science, technology, mathematics, arts, or other creative fields.

Grants are intended to help you start building immediately, not as recognition for past work.

Who can apply

  • Must be a student, dropout, or early‑career maker
  • Submit a 5‑minute Loom video introducing yourself, your project, and how the grant would help
  • Projects must be independent passion projects, not school assignments or admission exercises
  • Grant is intended for future potential, not past achievements
  • In high school
  • In college or university
  • Entrepreneur

AI Verification

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Good to know

  • +Genuinely low-friction for a young person with no adult helping: the whole application is a five-minute video emailed to any team member, with a two-week response turnaround
  • +The money is real and unconditional: a minimum 1,000 dollar stipend, no strings attached, no IP or future equity taken, paid by Venmo
  • +Explicitly for high school students, college students and dropouts, and explicitly NOT for school credit
  • +Very strong non-cash value: mentor matching, introductions to further capital, a peer community, and follow-on investment if the project becomes a company
  • +Deep track record. 1517's partners ran the Thiel Foundation grants and name people they backed early who went on to found major companies

Worth checking yourself

  • !NORTH AMERICA ONLY, and it is buried in the second-to-last paragraph. Most of LOT's audience cannot receive this money
  • !1517's own grants directory tags this project 'NA / EU', which contradicts the North-America-only statement on the programme page itself. The discrepancy is unresolved on their site
  • !No published selection criteria, no stated number of grants, and no decision timeline for the email route
  • !Two different application routes are offered on one page and are never reconciled

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$1,000 1517 Medici Young Builders Grant
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