Science.Fund

Name

Science.Fund

Website

https://sciencefund.io

Company type

Private

Short description

Science.Fund develops web3 protocols aggregating science donations into strategic investment priorities and evaluating their impact. The private company sits at the decentralized-finance and science-philanthropy intersection; no further product, team, customer, or revenue details are disclosed in available sources.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Decentralized Science Funding

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGAKAI

Research & Science Grantmaking Foundations

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Philanthropy, Foundations & Grantmaking

SECONDARYBPADAOAB

Grantmaking & Philanthropic Funds (Institutional Donors)

Business & Public Services/International Organizations & Development/Donor Coordination, Grantmaking & Development Finance Programs

Keywords

• Decentralized science funding
• Web3 science protocols
• Science donation platforms
• Research impact evaluation
• Crypto philanthropy tools

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel

Core offering

Science.Fund develops web3 protocols that group science donations into strategic investment priorities and evaluate the impact of funded research. The offering centers on blockchain-based infrastructure to channel donor contributions toward scientific projects and provide transparent impact assessment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Science.Fund Web3 Protocol Web3-based protocol that aggregates science donations, groups them into strategic research investment priorities, and supports meticulous impact evaluation of funded science. Designed for science donors and the broader research funding community.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

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No

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Broad incumbents

• Protocol Labs: Builder of Filecoin and IPFS, runs extensive open-source and science-adjacent grant programs via web3 mechanisms. Comparable as a larger, well-capitalized operator in the web3-public-goods funding space with science-relevant grantmaking.
• Wellcome Trust: One of the world's largest science-focused philanthropic foundations with a multi-billion-pound endowment. Comparable as a science grantmaking institution, representing the established incumbent model Science.Fund is attempting to disrupt via web3.
• Schmidt Futures: Philanthropic venture founded by Eric Schmidt that funds science talent and frontier research using strategic, high-conviction grantmaking. Comparable as an operator that selects strategic priorities and rigorously evaluates outcomes — the same model Science.Fund aims to web3-native.

Emerging players

• Ocean Protocol: Decentralized data exchange protocol with adjacent scientific data and AI applications. Comparable as a web3 protocol enabling programmatic incentive alignment around scientific assets, though Ocean focuses on data monetization rather than donation aggregation.
• Patrick Collison / Fast Grants: Fast Grants demonstrated tech-philanthropist-led science funding with streamlined application and impact-tracking processes. Comparable as a science funding model emphasizing speed, transparency, and outcome evaluation.

Direct peers

• VitaDAO: Decentralized autonomous organization pooling token-holder capital to fund early-stage longevity and biomedical research. Closely comparable model of programmatically bundling crypto-native donations into strategic science investments.
• Gitcoin: Web3 crowdfunding and quadratic-funding platform that has run grants rounds for open-source and public-good projects including science. Closely comparable infrastructure for pooling crypto donations into strategic funding priorities.
• ResearchHub: Crypto-incentivized platform for funding and peer-reviewing scientific research using the ResearchCoin token. Directly comparable as a web3-based science funding protocol pooling contributions to reward research outputs.
• Molecule (now part of BIO Protocol): Web3 platform for tokenized intellectual property in early-stage drug discovery, enabling decentralized funding of biotech research. Directly comparable as a protocol layer connecting science capital allocation with on-chain coordination.

Others

• Mozilla Foundation: Mission-driven foundation funding open science, trustworthy AI, and web health through grants and fellowships. Comparable as a tech-oriented grantmaker that combines programmatic science funding with broader ecosystem advocacy.

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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