Pillar VC $1M Moonshot Competition

Open to current university undergrad and grad students, postdocs and faculty. Apply to win $1M or $250K for your startup.

The most transformative ideas across software, hardware, AI, robotics, climate, biotech, and more are forming inside research labs, MBA programs and undergraduate dorm rooms.

Yet, funding options remain bleak. Grant programs are broken, slow, cumbersome and risk-averse. Investors are often gun-shy, unwilling to make a bet on a big idea before a founder is ready to graduate, drop out or spin-out.

We delight in the messy, the raw science, the moonshot opportunity that’s still a kernel of an idea.

We’ve backed over 50 companies with university roots including Abridge, Neural Magic, PillPack, Asimov, Algorand, PathAI, Cimulate, Verve Motion and more – is yours next?

Read more here: https://moonshot.pillar.vc/