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Science runs on Open Source.

Let’s fund it.

Our Purpose

  • Opportunity
  • Global Impact
  • Meeting the Moment
  • Our Solution
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Opportunity

Open Source is the engine of scientific discovery

From imaging the universe to modeling life at the molecular scale, science is built on open source software.

Global Impact

One software library. Millions of downstream impacts.

Investing in tools used by every scientist globally powers today’s discoveries and seeds tomorrow’s computing infrastructure.

Meeting the Moment

Yet, this infrastructure is critically underfunded and wasn't built for AI-driven science

Petabyte-scale data analysis, autonomous discovery, and agentic workflows bring new demands and opportunities for open source communities.

Our Solution

Coordinated investment. Strategic impact

We pool capital across philanthropy, government, and industry to invest in scientific open source and make it ready for the AI era, with funding mechanisms built for maintainers.

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Introducing the Open Source for Science Fund

Join the maintainers and funders building the open source ecosystem that drives the next chapter of science.

 

Funding Opportunities

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What We Do

We support the open source infrastructure for data-intensive research and AI-driven discovery

By pooling capital across the philanthropic, public, and industry sectors, the Open Source for Science Fund backs the development, maintenance, and evolution of open technology that powers science and the new era of AI-driven discovery.

About the Fund

Data representation and curation

Large-scale data analysis and visualization

Numerical computing and simulation

Hardware acceleration and scalability

Automation and autonomous workflows

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Header Video: Cell trajectories in a developing zebrafish embryo tracked by Ultrack — an open source library from the Royer lab at Biohub for large-scale cell tracking under segmentation uncertainty. Data by Jordão Bragantini from an experiment by Xiang Zhao, video by Alexandre Dizieux.

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