Links/email addresses

Emergent Ventures (Peter Thiel connection)

say market needs to be > $1B (but they funded Academia.edu)

Thomas Lehrman, Mark Shuttleworth, Rupert Pennant-Rea

SPARK; Tencent; True Ventures (but could not find any application portal for any of these)

Sam Altman now CEO of OpenAI (formerly president of Y-combinator) https://blog.ycombinator.com/author/sam-altman/

given he proposed on TW of creating a Fact checking website for journalists! (& generally a science geek)

Open Philanthropy (? not sure given fairly prohibitive application process)

science@openphilanthropy.org ; info@openphilanthropy.org

https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/scientific-research/science-policy-and-infrastructure ; https://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/guide-for-grant-seekers

(also from bulliedIntoBadResearch initiative)

https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/promoting-open-access

Dr Ross Mounce, Open Access Grants Manager, Arcadia Fund

Mellon Foundation (prohibitive application process)

https://mellon.org/grants/grantmaking-policies-and-guidelines/

has funded open data curation/OAC, https://ischool.illinois.edu/research/projects/oac

Edmond J Safra Foundation/Center for Ethics (Harvard)

https://ethics.harvard.edu/

https://www.edmondjsafra.org

https://credibilitycoalition.org/what-we-do/

hello@credibilitycoalition.org

but no longer seems active, but should try & contact them to inquiry (CONFIRMED nonactive https://www.kirschfoundation.org/)

http://www.kirschfoundation.org/how/index_how.html

staff@kirschfoundation.org

TIM BERNERS-LEE, W3C DIRECTOR AND INVENTOR OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB

The power of the web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.”

show them products we're building (map on very closely to their vision that unis should track/reward T track record!)

https://psyarxiv.com/48qux/

(did not send because they're within the system!)

Long-term future fund & EA infrastructure fund

https://av20jp3z.paperform.co/?fund=Long-Term%20Future%20Fund

(re-reading, not sure fits within their funding areas)

Zung Tran (Colorado guy biomedical systematic review company, MedAware Systems)

http://www.medawaresystems.com

Suicide prevention organizations in Canada

Centre for Suicide Prevention ( https://www.suicideinfo.ca/ )

Canadian Assocation for Suicide Prevention ( https://suicideprevention.ca/ )

given many suggestions related to increasing transparency of political decision-making, which of course is based on scientific publications (which need to meet min. T standards, etc.)

https://www.jccf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Life-After-COVID.pdf

e.g., Aspen Institute, Hoover institute? (find canadian ones)

inquiry whether interested in funding/being partner of CS disruptive T audits &/or visiting professor position in Meta-Science?

Nov 29, sent email to ablackburn@mercatus.gmu.edu asking for help given surprised by outcome given problem is particularly in NEED of outside disruption etc

Polite ping Dec 7

ACX grant (just posted Nov 11; via Ledwich)

posted comment Nov 30 re: update

most likely schedule is that I’ll give funders more information around December 14, and announce most winners around December 25, with Grants ++ coming some time after that

submitted for ACX++ consideration (will publish the summary on his substack)

Today’s scientists are rewarded for QUANTITY at the expense of QUALITY, causing serious quality control problems in science. In a fresh attempt to solve this problem, we are boldly conducting the world’s first researcher transparency audits, in combination with using unique rewards to NUDGE authors to increase their transparency. This uniquely addresses the needs of the established professor market while also catering to the needs of junior scientists in the emerging open science market. We are seeking a new round of funding so that we can (1) scale up and improve our apps and (2) operate a small auditing team to conduct ongoing transparency audits at a global scale. We’re excited to move forward on our MISSION to scale up our disruptive transparency author apps, so we can achieve our VISION of a transformed research world brimming with high-quality scientific evidence (for more details, see our 4-page funding proposal https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fiv6t0izX7z4F5kuPiLpzeyBtV4GwLRjaMODUj5EpSg/edit?usp=sharing ).

We're looking for seed funding in the $50K to $150K range. If you can provide funding or advice, please email contact@curatescience.org

Khosla Ventures (early funder of Academia.edu)

4-6 page "business plan" (or presentation) answering main questions for SEED FUND https://www.khoslaventures.com/philosophy/seed-fund

https://www.khoslaventures.com/philosophy/submit-a-business-plan

Expa (Uber et al. ppl - similar to YC, but idea submission via email

https://www.expa.com/ideas

"Send info about what you're building!"

https://apply.ycombinator.com/

https://www.ycombinator.com/about/

Email templates (1. with FP attached or 2. teaser pitch *without* FP)

said yes, sent him FP, and then recommended to connect me w/ Rob Hunter

Leif: will keep in mind and let me know if come across investor

polite ping (Nov 10, 2021)

final ping (Nov 18, 2021)

polite ping (Nov 12, 2021)

sent message via web form Nov 30 (w funding video)

sent brief email to see if interested in seeing FP (sent to 4 folks; both UCI edu addresses bounced, so reminder to other 2)

jonpaul responded yes, so sent him FP Nov 5 (responded will send to a few folks...!)

polite ping Nov 12, 2021

Nov 30 sent funding video

Bullied Into Bad Science lead (Corina Logan)

polite ping (Nov 12, 2021)

polite ping (Nov 12, 2021)

Responded nov 12, inviting me give talk in Jan '22, but concerned they're "too" WOKE???

Nov 30 sent funding video

sent brief email to see if interested in seeing FP (but contact page says do NOT receive unsolicited funding proposals, so just ask????) info@arcadiafund.org.uk

responded Nov 22 asking to send them FP (though admit chance is low given negative rxns it caused!

Nov 30 sent funding video

Rob Hunter (startup entrepeneur, Y-combinator graduate)

polite ping (Nov 12, 2021)

Responded after ping: "Will try to get substantive response off on the plane on Monday!"

polite ping Nov 22

final ping Nov 30 (included 4-minute funding video)

polite ping (Nov 12, 2021)

doesn't have any contacts, but offered to help in other ways, so sent him FP for brief feedback (Nov 18)

polite ping (Nov 12, 2021)

sent brief email to see if interested in seeing FP; Mathijs responded Nov 6 (interested); sent him the FP Nov 8 (CCing Pieter)

polite ping (Nov 16, 2021)

final ping Nov 25 (linking to 1-min & 4-min videos !)

polite ping (Nov 16, 2021)

final ping Nov 30 (included 4-minute funding video)

Jon Fawcett (U of Memorial, newfoundland)

polite ping Nov 25 (linking to 1-min & 4-min videos !)

Nov 25 shared 1-min & 4-min videos

Julia Rohrer's husband (software developer)

sent FP to husband Martin B on Nov 23

final ping Nov 30 (included 4-minute funding video)

Peter Baldwin (UCLA) 1 of Arcadia Fund co-founders

responded saying not interested (& that plenty of science funders in better position to evaluate & support our project , what a joke!)

also considerd Lisbet Rausing , also at Arcadia (couldn't find contact info for her

final ping Nov 30 (included 4-minute funding video)

polite ping Nov 26 (shared 4-minute video)

responded Dec 5, & i replied Dec 10 with new "ultra-accessibility" angle!

forgot to ask getting introduced to Paul Graham? (or any other big shots he may know??

Cicero Institute (mission is to design market-driven policy systems that foster accountability, promote transparency, and improve people’s lives.!!!) https://ciceroinstitute.org/about/

https://credentia.ru/en/

https://medium.com/credentia

Darren Zhu (founder of Atoms.org, developing (blockchain) "smart research contracts" to fix incentives in science toward more efficient, high-quality, and riskier long-term science!

https://atoms.org/scientiae

https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching/candidate/ZRvbxyWDm

Chris Em (decentralized deception fighting platform)

https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching/candidate/MRY718Jjt

https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching/candidate/RB95rHLSJ

https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching/candidate/tJ6bZNxv4

https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching/candidate/tJ6bZNxv4

https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching/candidate/XwHmWT0UH

https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching/candidate/BkTBSyFQR

https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching/candidate/57vZivdgZ

https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching/candidate/yJztmxrF7

new pitch idea to him on how i can help him scale up Owlstown UX-wise/ultra-accessibility, so we can pitch to investors and get funding needed for marketing/outreach/community growth budget (need 10x better UX/ultra-accessibility, marketing/outreach ALONE is not enough, but i can help with both!)

Contacted 12 more March 7, 2022 (last attempt?)

Upcoming (new & final batch -- carrots only framing)

submit post SHOW SUS for feedback on pitch/demo video and feature list [DONE, march 9, 2022]

Rob Hunter (startup entrepeneur, Y-combinator graduate)

Chris Fritz (creator of BibBase.org); sent to support@transitiverobotics.com

he's CEO of robotics company, so prob not interested, but potentially would be interested in investing and/or know investors?

Responded (mar 11), replied (march 14), but then no response

Polite ping March 21

contact FINAL 15 additional YC co-founders

https://www.intelcapital.com/contact/

https://fundersclub.com/founders/apply/

*You will receive a response from us within 2 weeks

submit to 10 additional angel investors (from list found)

https://eqvista.com/top-100-active-angel-investors-list-for-startups/

--> CS newsletter post (carrots-only) asking whether know angel investors?