Edge Esmeralda 2026
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By Telamon Ardavanis
9 fund applications (2 curated · 5 funded) · 1 season
A month-long gathering in Northern California for people building a brighter future (May…
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About
Imagine a city that disappears after a month - but the relationships and breakthroughs last forever. Edge Esmeralda is a popup village in California where 1,000+ scientists, builders, and artists live together to prototype a better society.
Impact
A living lab for ideas reshaping civilization — longevity, AI, governance, new cities. Attendees credit it with companies founded, breakthroughs sparked, lifelong collaborations. It prototypes Esmeralda, a permanent village being built nearby.
Progress
Now in its third year, Edge Esmeralda has hosted 1,000+ people across disciplines. Alumni include Vitalik Buterin, Laura Deming, Juan Benet, and Moxie Marlinspike. Past editions spawned many new startups, research papers, ideas & relationships.
Team
Edge City is a nonprofit co-founded by Janine Leger (Gitcoin Grants, Zuzalu) and Timour Kosters (Seed Club Ventures). We've run 8+ popup villages globally, hosting 12k+ people and built one of the most trusted frontier communities in the world.
Funding
| Sales | Venus | S+V | Match | S+V+M | Venus extras | Prize | V2+M+P | V2/S | (V2+M)/S | (V2+M+P)/S | Raised | Available | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 6 | $31,578 | $0 | $31,578 | $111,358 | $142,937 | $0 | $50 | $111,408 | 0.0x | 3.5x | 3.5x | $0 | — |
| Total | $31,578 | $0 | $31,578 | $111,358 | $142,937 | $0 | $50 | $111,408 | — | — | — | $0 | — |
Fund applications
| Season | Fund | Status | Applied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 6 | Solarpunk Futures Fund | submitted | 2026-02-26 |
| Season 6 | deZine Fund for DIY Creators & Print Media Rebels | funded | 2026-03-01 |
| Season 6 | Edge City Fund for Experimental Living | funded | 2026-02-26 |
| Season 6 | Greenpill Fund for Regenerative Gatherings | funded | 2026-03-01 |
| Season 7 | Emergence Fund for Evolutionary & Spiritual Philanthropy | curated | 2026-07-09 |
| Season 6 | Terminus Fund for Network States | funded | 2026-02-26 |
| Season 6 | Paradigm Fund for Frontier Tech | submitted | 2026-02-26 |
| Season 6 | FTC Fund for Public Goods | curated | 2026-02-26 |
| Season 6 | ZAO Fund for Emerging Culture | funded | 2026-03-01 |
Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.
Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/edge-city
Wayback: leaderboard page ↗ · Wayback: platform page ↗
Not recovered: links, drives, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.
Top siblings
Projects that applied to the same funds.
| Project | Shared funds | Raised | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The International Artists Project Documentary First Documentary to Tell the Stories of Music Artists Born in Every Country on Earth | Edge City Fund for Experimental Living, Emergence Fund for Evolutionary & Spiritual Philanthropy, FTC Fund for Public Goods +6 | $563 |
| 2. | Akuya I am an upcoming artist and this is my first track of the year, i need help for the produ… | Edge City Fund for Experimental Living, Emergence Fund for Evolutionary & Spiritual Philanthropy, FTC Fund for Public Goods +6 | $234 |
| 3. | adopt a tree Building climate-smart communities by teaching kids tree planting and agroforestry skills. | Edge City Fund for Experimental Living, Emergence Fund for Evolutionary & Spiritual Philanthropy, FTC Fund for Public Goods +5 | $14,777 |
| 4. | Labour Union of Higherdimensional Shapeshifters Collaborative transmedia experience (interactive movie) inviting Artizen community to rea… | Emergence Fund for Evolutionary & Spiritual Philanthropy, FTC Fund for Public Goods, Greenpill Fund for Regenerative Gatherings +5 | $360 |
| 5. | Coliven The tools your community runs on - and a home worth sharing. | Edge City Fund for Experimental Living, Emergence Fund for Evolutionary & Spiritual Philanthropy, FTC Fund for Public Goods +4 | $28,315 |
| 6. | Neurodevelop: Neuromodulation for everyone Neurodevelop is a scientific and technological project that uses knowledge of human physi… | Edge City Fund for Experimental Living, Emergence Fund for Evolutionary & Spiritual Philanthropy, FTC Fund for Public Goods +4 | $1,790 |
| 7. | International Artists Project Global Music Community uplifting artists born in every country of the world, preserving h… | Emergence Fund for Evolutionary & Spiritual Philanthropy, FTC Fund for Public Goods, Greenpill Fund for Regenerative Gatherings +4 | $462 |
| 8. | Memethology A trading card game about tech, culture, and human flourishing. | Edge City Fund for Experimental Living, Emergence Fund for Evolutionary & Spiritual Philanthropy, FTC Fund for Public Goods +3 | $220 |
Other funds of top siblings
Radical Responsibility Fund Bonfires Fund for Agentic Creativity Creative Wellness Fund for Community Healing WildSeed Creators Fund Bright Codes Fund for Earth Hackers Emergent Creativity Fund for Conscious Collaboration Pressman Film Fund for New Frontiers ODIN Fund for Decentralized Innovation