Neurodivergent Builders Fund

Seeking neurodivergent creators building products, technology, and creative work for neurodivergent people.

The Neurodivergent Builders Fund supports founders, artists, designers, and creators transforming lived neurodivergent experience into products, tools, and creative work that make life more accessible, empowering, and joyful. We believe some of the world's most important innovations emerge from people who experience it differently. From AI and assistive technology to accessibility software, creative projects, and consumer products, we champion builders creating products and experiences specifically for neurodivergent people.

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Eligibility

We welcome neurodivergent founders, artists, designers, engineers, and creators building products, platforms, tools, creative works, or community initiatives that meaningfully improve life for neurodivergent people and communities. We especially value projects that combine lived experience with thoughtful design, accessibility, and a commitment to supporting others through technology, creativity, or community.
To qualify for this fund, projects must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Neurodivergent Leadership: Projects should be led by a neurodivergent creator or intentionally designed to meaningfully benefit neurodivergent communities. In all cases, the project should demonstrate a meaningful connection to neurodivergent experience through what it creates, how it is designed, or who it serves.
- Consumer or Community Focus: We support products, software, AI tools, assistive technology, accessibility solutions, creative works, educational experiences, digital platforms, and community initiatives intended for public or community use.
- Early-Stage Innovation: Projects may be at the idea, prototype, MVP, beta, or recently launched stage, but should demonstrate meaningful progress.
- Proof of Work: Applicants should provide evidence of momentum through a prototype, demo, design work, code repository, pilot program, creative portfolio, or community traction.
- Accessibility by Design: Projects should thoughtfully reduce barriers through accessible design, inclusive language, sensory considerations, multiple ways to participate, or other practices appropriate to the product or experience.
- Privacy & Trust: Projects handling personal information should clearly explain how user data is collected, stored, protected, and used, particularly when AI or sensitive health information is involved.
- Completed project page: A project page that includes a video, pitch deck, and Artifacts.
- Community Contribution: We value founders who actively share knowledge, celebrate fellow creators, make introductions, mentor others, participate in community discussions, and help strengthen the ecosystem beyond their own project.
- Positive Impact: We seek projects whose primary purpose or design meaningfully improves everyday life for neurodivergent people or neurodivergent communities. Neurodivergent leadership alone is not sufficient.
Preference will be given to projects that offer scholarships, free access, or other pathways for people who could not otherwise afford their product or service.
What's generally not a fit:
- Professional service practices where the primary offering is coaching, consulting, counseling, therapy, or other client services, rather than a distinct product, platform, tool, or creative work.
- Personal-brand businesses where the product is essentially the founder rather than a distinct product, tool, or creative work.
- Academic research projects.
To help us evaluate your project fairly:
• Address the eligibility criteria directly. Explain why your project belongs in this fund. Don't assume we'll connect the dots. Show how your project benefits neurodivergent people through what it creates, how it's designed, or who it serves.
• Be specific. If you mention accessibility, privacy, AI, or community impact, explain the design decisions behind those claims rather than making general statements.
• Write this application as if we're seeing your project for the first time. Include enough context that someone unfamiliar with your work can understand what you've built and why it matters.
• Use the available space. Thoughtful, detailed answers help us understand your project and lead to better funding decisions.
• In your submission, also include: how your project handles and protects user data (if applicable), how you hope to contribute to this community beyond your own project, and a link to a video of you in an Artizen showcase.
Reapplying: We welcome updated submissions. If your project evolves, your project page is completed, or you've addressed the feedback that led to a previous decline, you're encouraged to apply again.

Projects (25)

19 submitted · 6 curated

Project	Status	Raised
Reset and Rise	curated	$0
Unfold - The Human Curriculum	curated	$23,929
30-Hour-Workweek System	curated	$0
AnakUnggul ( NeuroDecode)	curated	$2,730
The Round Room: A Sanctuary for Different Nervous Systems	curated	$5,261
Sōtō, a paradigm shift in neurodivergent self-care.	curated	$323
Oasis of Rhythm: An Inward Journey Through Sound	submitted	$1,770
🔮 The Oracle: The Earth's Guardian 🌱	submitted	$6,710
CL-072	submitted	$1,882
Akuya	submitted	$234
MetaGraff Gallery & Hall of Fame	submitted	$120
The Eyes of Argus	submitted	$10
CL-047 of Ludomancy - Transformational Mythopoetic Role Playing Game	submitted	$23,975
Technological Sovereignty in Nuclear Medicine: A Brazilian Strategy.	submitted	$329
Mindtrospect - The 30 day Microdosing protocol	submitted	$23,491
AJO - Community Finance	submitted	$1,461
The International Artists Project Documentary	submitted	$563
Mystic Escape: Next Generation of Dance Music	submitted	$1,642
Voices of my Community: Anthology Project	submitted	$0
Permissionless Money in Kibera, Nairobi	submitted	$5,002
Wild Returns	submitted	$15,350
Kanji School VR	submitted	$8,049
Hearse	submitted	$2,261
Hands of Hope Foundation	submitted	$0
Regenerating Roots: Reimagining Childhood Beyond Behavior and Performance	submitted	$0