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robotics

medicine

climate

agriculture

physics

neuroscience

robotics

The Encode Fellowship:
Freedom to build what matters

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AI is accelerating our ability to solve
the world’s biggest challenges. The best minds in AI should be curing diseases and feeding continents, not building chatbots.
One year to explore, with salary, compute, workspace and no equity taken.

Builders, not mentors. Work alongside people who have scaled breakthroughs.
Interested in being an academic or industry partner to an Encode Fellow?

The most interesting problems, the most impactful science, the most brilliant people — brought together to accelerate discovery.

Program overview
WHAT YOU GET
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Compensation

Salary (£115k), benefits, pension, travel stipend.
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Datasets & Tooling

Unique access to datasets, tooling, academic and industry partners.
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Compute

Individual compute budget of £100k, minimum.
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Community

Dinners, events, co-working and trips to connect you with leading founders, academics, and builders.
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Support

Office hours, pitch deck coaching, investor introductions and more. Access to our team won't end with your fellowship.
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Freedom

We take no equity. Unless we invest, we never will.
Pillar VC invests at inception in companies solving the world's greatest challenges. We believe the next generation of world-changing companies and tools will come from the intersection of AI and science.

At Pillar VC, we've invested in over 150 companies with deep university roots throughout, and raised $500M across 4 funds. As an ARIA Activation Partner, we're proudly building the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship.
OUR AI FOR SCIENCE FOUNDER STORIES
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Andy Beck
Improving patient outcomes with AI-powered pathology
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Shiv Rao
Bridging the gap in clinical conversations with generative AI
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Simon Kohl
Accelerating the creation of next-generation therapeutics
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Alec Nielson
Developing AI tools for advanced genetic design
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PILLAR BACKS AI FOR SCIENCE FOUNDERS FROM INCEPTION
Read article  →
Written by
encode: ai for science
Andy Beck
Improving patient outcomes with AI-powered pathology
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Read article  →
Written by
encode: ai for science
Shiv Rao
Bridging the gap in clinical conversations with generative AI
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Read article  →
Written by
encode: ai for science
Simon Kohl
Accelerating the creation of next-generation therapeutics
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Read article  →
Written by
encode: ai for science
Alec Nielson
Developing AI tools for advanced genetic design
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our PORTFOLIO
THE advisory board
Collaborate with leaders working at the frontier of AI for Science.
Jonathan Godwin
Co-Founder and CEO
Orbital Materials
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Amy Villeneuve
Former COO and President, Amazon Robotics
Amazon
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Simon Kohl
CEO
Latent Labs
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Samuel Rodriques
Founder & CEO
FutureHouse
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Steve Crossan
Co-Founder
Dayhoff Labs
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Rohit Prasad
Prev. SVP and Head Scientist Artificial General Intelligence
Amazon
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Megan Stanley
Research Scientist, AI and Robotics Team
Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT)
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Andrew Giessel
Former Executive Director of AI Engineering
Moderna
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Chris Anderson
Senior Advisor
Renaissance Philanthropy
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Joshua Goldford
Co-Founder
Dayhoff Labs
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Debbie Marks
Professor, Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School
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Miriam Huntley
CTO
Day Zero Diagnostics
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Leonard Wossnig
Co-founder & CTO
Forgent AI
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Zachary Lipton
CTO and CSO
Abridge
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Theofanis Karaletsos
Head of AI
Chan Zuckerberg Institute
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Jacomo Corbo
CEO and Co-Founder
PhysicsX
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Ankit Gupta
General Partner
Y Combinator
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