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Garden Grants: Funding to grow climate biotech

Garden Grants: Funding to grow climate biotech

Garden Grants: Greenhouse Gas Removal

We’ll soon announce our second round of Garden Grants to support de-risking of new ideas in biotechnology and greenhouse gas removal.

Keep an eye on this page and on our LinkedIn to stay updated on Garden Grants and other opportunities from Homeworld Collective.

Program Overview

Garden Grants is our funding program that supports de-risking of new, big-if-true ideas in climate biotech. By providing up to $200k of risk-tolerant funding per project and quickly finalizing awardee decisions within two months of the application close date, Garden Grants helps ideas get off the ground.

Beyond fast funding, Garden Grants facilitates learning and collaboration by publicly sharing the problems that proposals address while protecting applicants’ novel ideas. Proposals have two parts:

  • The Problem Statement describes the motivating factor, specific constraint, and actionable goals that the project addresses. In the spirit of growing knowledge and community, problem statements are made public.
  • The Solution Statement describes the the proposed work to address the Problem Statement. To protect applicants’ ideas, Solution Statements are kept confidential.

 

Read our detailed article about “What we learned doing Garden Grants.

Inaugural Garden Grants Program 2024 Cohort

a person with glasses and a blue collared shirt
Ahmed Badran, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute
Anum Glasgow, PhD
Columbia University
Benjamin Scott, PhD
Global Institute for Food Security, University of Saskatchewan
César Ramírez-Sarmiento, PhD
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Jenny Molloy, PhD
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
Logan Morton, PhD
Tufts University
Manvitha Ponnapati
Cambridge, MA
Maria Astolfi, PhD
Berkeley, CA
Mijndert van der Spek, PhD
Heriot-Watt University
Nathan Ennist, PhD
University of Washington
Pascal Notin, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Philip Romero, PhD
University of Wisconsin
Pranam Chatterjee, PhD
Duke University
Samuel Thompson, PhD
Stanford University
Shiqiang Gao, PhD
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Sonja Salmon, PhD
North Carolina State University

A Garden to bring ideas to life and discourse into a community.

Why the name?

 

A garden is a safe place for plants to grow and cross-pollinate. We intend for the Garden Grants to become a safe place for ideas to grow and cross-pollinate.