Foresight Institute

Overview

Advances science and technology through grants, events, prizes, fellowships, workshops, conferences, and AI hubs for researchers and builders addressing technical bottlenecks.

Part of the San Francisco ecosystem

Related

• 8VCBuilds and invests in technology companies, partnering with entrepreneurs to develop platforms addressing areas such as healthcare, zero-emission aircraft, privacy enforcement, and urban tunneling.
• ARCH Venture PartnersBuilds and backs science-based companies, investing flexibly in portfolio businesses founded around technologies intended to affect human health and disease.
• Chai DiscoveryBuilds computer-aided molecular design software that models biochemical structure and interaction, helping scientists design new medicines and molecules on computers.
• Endpoints @ JPMProvides events and biotech-pharma journalism with news, analysis, interviews, and topic hubs for industry readers tracking science, deals, policy, financing, and manufacturing.
• ExtropicBuilds thermodynamic computing hardware and software tools for probabilistic AI workloads, including frameworks and APIs to program and simulate thermodynamic sampling units.
• Fifty YearsInvests in pre-seed and seed startups and helps form companies, supporting founders applying technology and breakthrough science to major global problems.
• IndieBioProvides onsite biolabs and pre-seed investment for scientists launching startups across biotech, food, agriculture, industrial decarbonization, AI, therapeutics, and diagnostics.
• Lux CapitalInvests in emerging science and technology companies and publishes scenarios, analyses, podcasts, and newsletters for audiences tracking strategic challenges and future developments.
• MedraBuilds autonomous AI robotic lab systems that collect life science data and design, execute, interpret, and improve experiments in closed loops.
• Merge LabsCollect visitor inquiries and email list sign-ups through a launch landing page, enabling updates, promotions, and direct contact before the site opens.
• Numerion LabsBuilds an AI platform that searches chemical space for novel drug-like molecules, supporting small-molecule drug discovery programs for immune and inflammatory diseases.
• Roots of ProgressBuilds a philosophy and culture of progress, supporting progress-focused intellectuals and communities through training, networking, events, collaboration, and idea exchange.