We get you cash, cloud credits, GPU credits, and more. Free.
Open Research Fund is a non-profit funded by technology founders & academics. Tell us what your university computer science lab or ai lab works on and we find every grant, research award, and credit programme you qualify for, build the applications, and hand you the money and the API keys.
We never charge researchers and we never take a cut of what you win.
WHAT WE GO AND GET
Tell us what your lab does
Fill out what your lab works on and your university affiliation. Tell us your focus areas, your career stage, and what you are trying to build, and we put together your funding profile from there. It takes about five minutes and you only ever do it once. A lab can be one person or many.
We surface everything worth applying to
Grants, research awards, cloud and GPU programmes, API credits, prizes. We find the ones your lab is eligible for and tell you which are worth sending on your behalf, so you are not reading solicitations at midnight.
We build the forms, you approve them
Every field filled, every attachment drafted, every page limit and formatting rule checked against the funder's guidelines. World-class teams of AI agents do the drafting under strict guardrails, and nothing leaves the building until you have read it and pressed approve.
You get the money and the keys
Cash lands in an FDIC-insured digital wallet via Stripe, or goes straight to your university's bank account, whichever the award allows and your institution requires. Compute credits, portal logins, and API keys arrive in your inbox.
$184,200
available to your lab
That's it
We track your reporting deadlines, draft the progress reports, and keep hunting for your next round while the current one is still running. You go back to research.
- Applied
- Won
- Spent
- Reported
- Renewed
- and again, automatically
Free means free
We operate as a non-profit funded by technology founders & academics who think scientists should spend their time on science instead of paperwork. Researchers lose roughly a fifth of their working hours to finding, applying for, and administering funding.
We start with AI and computer science labs, where funding means more than cash. GPU hours, cloud credits, and API access move research just as much as a grant cheque does.
Everything open right now
This is the index our matching runs against, refreshed every day. Every programme listed is accepting applications or opens soon. Your lab is probably eligible for more of these than you think; tell us what you research and we will find out which.