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Life & fun · February 16, 2022

Voodle Visionaries Grant

$10K grant contest for diverse founders

Voodle Visionaries Grant launched on February 16, 2022 with 6 votes, #1,271 of 2,644 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

We are optimistic about the future of work. It will be more flexible, distributed, and inclusive. Our $10,000 grant is targeted to women, non-binary, and BIPOC founders who are as committed to this vision as we are. A 60-sec video is all it takes to pitch.

In fall 2015 we made an ”emerging tech” bet on VR and chose a “swing for the fence” scale risk-reward approach. We believed VR would rapidly emerge as a very large-scale industry based on anecdotal buzz and our own profound amazement at early trials of the 6-DOF systems floating about Seattle via Valve’s early-access demonstrations. …

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