$50,000 Basis Fellowship
- Organization: The Basis Fellowship (run by Mark Khrapko, Spencer Green and Steven Pang; funded personally and through Orbit)
- Type: Fellowship
- Location: Global
- Funding: Fully Funded
The Basis Fellowship gives $50,000 with no strings attached, plus a lifelong network, to operators, engineers, scientists and anyone else doing remarkable work. It is run by Mark Khrapko, Spencer Green and Steven Pang, who previously ran the Duct Tape Prize and the Eigenprize, and is funded personally and through their neurotech company Orbit. The application takes about ten minutes: share your portfolio and answer a few short questions about what you have built and what you believe. **What you get:** - $50,000, yours to spend on anything - No equity taken and no reporting required - Membership of a permanent community of fellows, with advisors including former NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Sequoia partner David Cahn - Possibly $3,000, at the organisers' discretion, for a strong application that does not make the cohort **What you'll do:** - Submit a ten minute application with your portfolio, GitHub or website and any files that show your work - Answer four short questions, including the best thing you have built, discovered or pulled off - Update your application later if you do something new; it never expires and is read against your last one **Key dates:** - Applications are always open - First cohort: 2026 - Fellows are named on a rolling basis **More information:** - Contact: basis [at] orbit.engineering, subject line [basis] - Replies come from an @orbit.engineering address, so check your spam folder - Being announced or listed as a fellow is optional - You can nominate someone else at basisfellowship.org/nominate and receive $1,000 if they are chosen
