Bagel Fund

What is Bagel Fund? We're a friend group working in tech that wants to support young people working on cool ideas.

We give microgrants ($100-500) to ambitious young builders.

Working on something cool and need some non-dilutive ideation capital?

Fill out this short form. We'll get back to you via email if it's a good fit.

To date, we've funded:

Lauren, 20, creating a mind-reading EMG/EEG device for non-verbal communication
Siddharth, 20, making affordable autonomous micro drone swarms
Neerav, 17, building small solar-powered planes that fly forever
Anirudh, 17, developing controllers for soft robots navigating inside humans
In-Woo, 18, working on a clinical decision-support tool for Canadian pharmacists
Maxwell, 13, building a radio tracking system for high-altitude balloon experiments
Saras, 17, creating an on-ear heart attack detection wearable
Carlos, 19, researching novel chemical processes for mine waste repurposing
Ashna, 17, developing a novel CRISPR delivery method in plants
Charles, 14, building high-altitude UAVs
Mason, 18, making a 2-octave electric piano
Harish, 15, working on an energy-saving smart home platform
Santiago, 21, building a 4-wheel independent steering car
Yash, 19, creating a computer from scratch
Sunir, 19, building self-driving RC cars
Aaryan, 16, using computer vision to detect falls in elder care
Advait, 18, building Teleoperation robots
Arielle, 20, working on Apple Tree cloning
Winston, 17, increasing AI literacy for students K-12

Reach out to Ari and Alexa if you have questions about your application. Bagel Fund was founded by:

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