Emergent Ventures
Every winner, classified
Every grant read and tagged, so a search for a subject finds the people working on it.
- Grants
- 1,266
- People
- 1,221
- Countries
- 74
- Announced
- 2018 to 2026
Browse by field
Jethro Elsden
58 · 26 Aug 2026London area, to study the regulatory structure of the UK using AI.
Paula Benedetti
58 · 26 Aug 2026Buenos Aires, marine biology work in Brazil.
Nyida Gyal
58 · 26 Aug 202617, northern Virginia, AI and data.
Gabe Sekeres
58 · 26 Aug 2026Cornell, what if an economist just lets AI run?,
Ollie Payne
58 · 26 Aug 2026NYC, Future Aesthetics Foundation.
Jacob Watson-Howland
58 · 26 Aug 2026London, podcast on science and progress.
Cameron Monroe
58 · 26 Aug 2026UC Santa Cruz, archaeology in Ghana.
Björn O. Öste
58 · 26 Aug 2026archaeology and Peru.
Oliver Pryce
58 · 26 Aug 2026Cambridge, mathematics, AI and a unified representation of geometry and physics.
Demetre Tsiklauri
58 · 26 Aug 2026Tblisi, 16, general career support, building a student network in Georgia.
Shannon Wong
58 · 26 Aug 2026Paris/Antarctica, general career support.
Lydia Farnham
58 · 26 Aug 2026London, matching donors and projects.
Oisin O’Gorman
57 · 4 Aug 202615, Dublin, misinformation and fakes.
Karsen Lee Wahal
57 · 4 Aug 2026Stanford, is AI killing the web?, and measuring media slant.
Davy Deng
57 · 4 Aug 2026with Claire Wang (previous winner), whole brain emulation, MIT.
Enej Grmek
57 · 4 Aug 202616, Ljubljana, privacy.
Vladimir Shmelev
57 · 4 Aug 2026Ukraine, Ukrainian children for relief trips to Montenegro.
Nik Verma
57 · 4 Aug 2026Chicago, a legal framework for AI agents.
Emirhan Demir and Çınar Yıldırım
57 · 4 Aug 2026Istanbul area, 19, protection against AI agents.
Midhat Doruk
57 · 4 Aug 202614, Ankara, longevity, biology, and skin cosmetics.
Burak Yilmaz
57 · 4 Aug 202617, Diyarbarkir, Turkey, browser-native authentication.
Lloyd Strickland
57 · 4 Aug 2026London, to publish the remaining Leibniz papers, including on computation.
Abdul Quyum
57 · 4 Aug 202615, Perth, organizing information and data.
Catharine Young
57 · 4 Aug 2026podcast on women in science, science communication tranche, Cambridge/DC.
Adithyan Madhu
India 18 · 1 Aug 2026Adithyan Madhu, 14, an independent researcher, received his grant to study early writing systems, applying computational linguistics, pattern analysis, and structural methods to the Indus Valley script.
How the programme divides
Five series, and four tranches inside the cohorts
The five series are labelled in the data. The four tranches are labelled nowhere. Each is announced inside a numbered cohort and named only in the text of the post.
Built on
Nabeel Qureshi’s Emergent Ventures Winners
Nabeel Qureshi built the original site. He collected the grantees, tracked down their announcement posts, and wrote the semantic search that made them findable. His repository holds 830 entries.
This one holds 1,266. I collected the other 457: the India cohorts 3 to 18, the Africa and Caribbean programme, and the Covid prizes. They are in an open pull request to his repository. Corrections to any entry belong there, so both sites get them.
About
What this adds
Emergent Ventures is a grant and fellowship programme at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, started by Tyler Cowen. Nabeel Qureshi already collected its winners and their announcement posts at evwinners.org. I added 457 entries to that collection and then did three things to all of it.
Tagged every grant. The data names a subject for 18 per cent of grants and a career stage for 3 per cent. I read all 1,266 entries and tagged each one: the field, what the grant produced, why it was given, where the person was, and what stage they had reached. You can now ask for machine learning in India by a school student, or for everyone who made a podcast.
Put the links back. The announcement posts carry hyperlinks inside the text. The shared CSV keeps the words and drops the addresses, so a phrase like “here is his blog” lost the blog, and a linked company name lost the company. I took those links from archived copies of the posts and restored them. 41 grants carry at least one.
Joined up the people. Reading every entry found four tranches the data does not label. Ukraine, archaeology, science education and science communication are each announced inside a numbered cohort and named only in the text. It also found 45 people holding more than one grant, several of them spelled differently each time. They now appear once, with all their grants listed.
The tags are my judgement and some will be wrong. Where a description gives no evidence for a value, the value is blank. Where two rows might be the same person and the evidence is thin, they stay separate and the doubt is written down. Both are described as founding Power of Youth as a teenager to help rural students in India. This may be one person recorded under two surnames, or two people. Not merged, because the evidence does not settle it.
This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with Emergent Ventures or the Mercatus Center.
How search works
Each grant becomes a vector, built from its description and its tags. Your query becomes a vector the same way, and the nearest grants come back. The tags matter here. “AI” is two letters, and a description on its own gives the model too little to work with.
- Grants
- 1,266
- People
- 1,221
- Hosting
- Cloudflare Workers
- Updated
- 26 August 2026
Data
A snapshot of the shared CSV, plus links taken from archived copies of the announcement posts. Wrong or missing entries should be fixed upstream, where both sites read from.
- Source
- nqureshi/ev-winners
- Posts
- Marginal Revolution
- This site
- adoistic/ev-gazetteer
Built by
Adnan, Founder and CEO of Thothica. He holds an Emergent Ventures grant himself.
- Cohort
- India 15
- Announced
- 26 December 2025
- Post
- Marginal Revolution
- Entry
- In the list