The First Light Initiative
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11 fund applications (1 curated) · 1 season
A guiding light for the next generation of polymaths and creatives.
ArtInstitution BuildingInterdisciplinaryTechnology ai-technologyarts-mediaeducationscience-research
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About
A multi-disciplinary incubator of cutting edge labs in every different field: Arts, Design, AI, Biotech and Governance.
Impact
It would allow access to workshops and educational programming for every discipline to intermingle and inspire each other.
Progress
We’re currently building and testing different lab models, while building communities and businesses.
Team
We’ve tested this model thoroughly and have already ironed out a lot of the kinks for this model over the last year.
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 | $1,177 | $0 | $1,177 | $2,510 | $3,687 | $0 | $20 | $2,530 | 0.0x | 2.1x | 2.1x | $0 | — |
| Total | $1,177 | $0 | $1,177 | $2,510 | $3,687 | $0 | $20 | $2,530 | — | — | — | $0 | — |
Fund applications
| Season | Fund | Status | Applied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 6 | Creative Wellness Fund for Community Healing | submitted | 2026-06-28 |
| Season 6 | Edge City Fund for Experimental Living | submitted | 2026-06-28 |
| Season 6 | Terminus Fund for Network States | submitted | 2026-06-28 |
| Season 6 | FTC Fund for Public Goods | submitted | 2026-06-28 |
| Season 6 | Learning Layer Fund for AI Frontiers | submitted | 2026-06-28 |
| Season 6 | Community Network Fund | submitted | 2026-06-28 |
| Season 7 | Apollo Fund for the New Renaissance | curated | 2026-07-09 |
| Season 6 | Lovepunks Fund for Experiential Culture | submitted | 2026-06-28 |
| Season 6 | Future Aesthetics Fund for Worlds Worth Building | submitted | 2026-06-28 |
| Season 6 | Embodied Mastery Fund for Living Lineages | submitted | 2026-06-28 |
| Season 6 | Open Infrastructure Fund for Human Coordination | submitted | 2026-06-28 |
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/first-light-initiative
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Not recovered: creator, 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 | Apollo Fund for the New Renaissance, Community Network Fund, Creative Wellness Fund for Community Healing +8 | $563 |
| 2. | Akuya I am an upcoming artist and this is my first track of the year, i need help for the produ… | Apollo Fund for the New Renaissance, Community Network Fund, Creative Wellness Fund for Community Healing +8 | $234 |
| 3. | Element of Chawaza Artistic fusion of culture, landscape, sound and tech that evokes a profound sensory expe… | Apollo Fund for the New Renaissance, Community Network Fund, Creative Wellness Fund for Community Healing +6 | $1,356 |
| 4. | Hands of Hope Foundation Extending Hope, Restoring Dignity. | Apollo Fund for the New Renaissance, Creative Wellness Fund for Community Healing, Edge City Fund for Experimental Living +6 | $0 |
| 5. | Voices of my Community: Anthology Project Voices of Our Community is an anthology project that preserves untold stories, traditions, | Apollo Fund for the New Renaissance, Community Network Fund, Edge City Fund for Experimental Living +6 | $0 |
| 6. | adopt a tree Building climate-smart communities by teaching kids tree planting and agroforestry skills. | Apollo Fund for the New Renaissance, Community Network Fund, Creative Wellness Fund for Community Healing +5 | $14,777 |
| 7. | Libp2p: The Internet Without Gatekeepers We are building the core networking layer for a decentralized internet powering peer-to-p… | Apollo Fund for the New Renaissance, Community Network Fund, Edge City Fund for Experimental Living +5 | $60 |
| 8. | ZuAfrique where global builders and African innovators unite to create a new era of trust, ownershi… | Apollo Fund for the New Renaissance, Community Network Fund, Creative Wellness Fund for Community Healing +4 | $111,330 |
Other funds of top siblings
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