The Mozilla Foundation’s Fellowship 2027/2028 for innovators worldwide ($125,000 in funding)

Application Deadline: March 12, 2027

Applications are now open for the 2027/2028 Mozilla Foundation Fellowship. Mozilla Foundation will award 10 Fellowships for the 2027–2028 period. We are looking for extraordinary individuals working at the edges of human imagination, on technology that’s too early, too unexpected, or too ambitious for anyone else to fund.

Themes

1. Neurotech, biotech, and physical AI
2. Hard infrastructure: compute, energy, quantum and the extremes
3. Raising p(bloom)
4. Business models for a post-agentic web
5. Shared security and audit infrastructure for small organizations
6. Sovereign AI, public infrastructure and maintenance
7. Creative Advocacy (one Fellow)
8. Wildcards

Fellowship tracks

The Fellowship has two tracks for builders at different stages of their careers. Both share the same commitment: developing Fellows into the kind of technology leaders a better technology future needs:

Track I: Embedded Fellows
Track II: Independent Fellows

Funding

• Up to $125,000, 12 months, and a global network of over 200 Fellows who have done this before you.

How to apply

Applications are reviewed through a multi-stage process. The primary review occurs at the Letter of Intent stage, with only a small number of shortlisted applicants invited to submit a full application in early 2027.

• Letter of Intent deadline: December 17, 2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific (UTC-8)

• Invitation to submit full application: February 16, 2027

• Full application deadline: March 12, 2027 at 11:59 PM Pacific (UTC-8)

• Final applicants notified: April 30, 2027

The Fellowship begins on June 1, 2027, and runs for 12 months.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Mozilla Foundation’s Fellowship