Exygy is happy to share some exciting news!  The launch of a new non-profit that we’ve been helping to build this past year.

EurekaFund’s Mission is to fund early stage scientific research.

Our first ambitious goal is to get the public (that’s you!) directly involved in  supporting a high-risk/high-reward CleanTech research project with transformative potential: an off-the-grid energy use project in Africa.  If successful this early stage research project could enable technologies that meet the energy needs of “bottom of the pyramid” families while also preserving energy and resources in Africa.  The technology is being developed by two engineers at Stanford and it needs a small amount of funding to prove its potential.

We’d love for you to check out the website, check out the off-the-grid energy project we’re excited about, and send me some feedback!

The EurekaFund website is easy to find at http://eurekafund.org/

Please take a moment to poke around.  I encourage you to look at the research projects we’ve listed and setup a user account.  For now we’re mostly interested in how you think we might improve upon the idea and the site.  We’ll post again in a few weeks when we’re a little further along with our pilot project to ask you to consider giving a few bucks.

Best,
-Zach @ Exygy and the EurekaFund Team

… While quality projects led by inspired young scientists abound, they often struggle to find the seed funding – $5,000 to $50,000 – needed to validate concept and produce meaningful technology. Eureka Fund gives funding power back to the people, letting the public get directly involved in projects they want to support …
– Jason Blue-Smith (Founder of EurekaFund