PhD Fund Manifesto
Re-igniting discovery with patience, principle, and profit.
A Turning Point
America's research engine is sputtering. Federal budgets shrink just as AI, climate resilience and bio-security demand more science, not less. Brilliant PhDs now enter either a funding vacuum or a “move‑fast” treadmill that shreds rigor for speed. We reject that false choice.
There's a better path: Patient capital that respects the slow burn of discovery & captures its exponential yield.
First Principles
Depth Over Haste
Quantum processors, mRNA platforms and planetary-scale models mature in experiments, not sprints.
Freedom Is Non-Negotiable
Curiosity, publication and peer review are sacrosanct; capital must orbit them, never eclipse them.
Patience Compounds
Moderna, IonQ and OpenAI paid off because someone funded the boring years.
Shared Upside, Shared Duty
Scientists invent, universities incubate, investors scale. Align incentives and abundance follows.
Our Blueprint
Venture-Funded PhD Fellows Program
$250 million → 300 PhD fellows → a pipeline of rigorous deep-technology startups.
Freedom Funding
Up to three years of tuition, stipend and R&D grants — zero equity, zero debt.
Scientist-in-Residence Bridge
A paid 12-month residency at a VC fund; translate thesis to venture after the data mature.
Right of First Look
Optional, brief and post-graduation. Capital meets science only when both are ready.
Transparent Governance
Independent board; public metrics on impact, diversity and integrity.
Stakes & Payoff
Failure
Starves the pipeline: Life-saving ideas go unfunded, coastlines slip away, talent exits for routine paychecks, and a country once defined by discovery settles for incremental fixes.
Success
Sparks a renaissance: Hundreds of mission-driven companies, thousands of high-value jobs, billions in returns, and a nation reminded that science is still its surest bet.
Call to Action
VCs
Invest with curiosity and patience; own the upside history will remember.
Universities
Open the doors; your students keep their freedom, your IP gains wings.
PhDs
Bring audacious questions; we'll bankroll the answers and the enterprises they spawn.
Philanthropists & Policymakers
Match us, critique us, elevate us. The stakes are civilization-scale.
Our Covenant
Science without shortcuts. Capital without coercion. Innovation without exclusion.
We will light the long fuse of discovery — the future is too consequential to starve and too complex to rush.