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“We're gearing up to expand to a second space by the end of 2025 and have welcomed in 50 members to our community working on various projects. This initial funding enabled us to kickoff and continue to teach How To Grow (Almost) Anything and expand our broader community to >1800 people learning the tools of biotechnology.”

“I hired two field assistants straight out of undergrad, one got a science tech job, and the other is now going to grad school, and I hope that being part of my field team gave them good experience to boost their field and data analysis skills.”

“Really easy to use, update funders and share results. We found a swath of other people and communities doing similar work in the space. We're hoping to hand over the project to an organization with mor/continuing funding.”

“I was able to hire the master's student that worked on the project as a PhD candidate! I also believe the research project was a significant contributor to my promotion to Associate Professor. The experiment foundation funding resulted in preliminary data that I used in my NSF CAREER grant that was funded ($600,000.00).”

“Experiment was my first experience in getting funding and writing grant proposals. It was a truly enriching experience and allowed me to really make my work and carreer move forward. I was helped by the Experiment.com staff in the grant application process making it very smooth.”

“Funding from Experiment allowed us to explore an avenue of elasmobranch research we wouldn't have been able to otherwise. We were able to make new inroads into our understanding of shark osmoregulation and were able to educate over 1,000 citizen scientists throughout the project. The funding we received from Experiment also allowed us to hire one masters student who would not have otherwise had a research opportunity in our lab.”

“It has enabled two amazing undergraduate students, one of whom is a member of the Amah Mutsun Tribal band, to engage deeply with marine science and community work. We were able to leverage the funding to bring them both to Ulithi Atoll to replicate the work, and to engage with the indigenous communities we have been working with there on collaborative conservation solutions. We are so excited about the potential to scale this work, and have now been asked by three additional communities in the islands to work with them on collaborative solutions for marine stewardship.”

“I'm very grateful that this platform exists. It provided me with enough seed funds to generate preliminary data that is now being used to apply for larger grants from places like the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Agriculture. ”

“We are in the process of forming a company called Salmon Vision, which will operate in both the US and Canada as a public benefit company, focused on providing cutting edge AI tools for fishery conservation, thanks to multiple follow up grants supporting ML work, including $3million from Canadian BC SRIF.”

“The Experiment helped us to get the funds to start building our prototype and get more fundings from Fundación IDEAS in Venezuela, a national non-profit.”

“I know that my career was impacted positively as I was able to create stronger working ties with hawaiian knowledge holders here in hawai'i, as well as with academics on the continent. I was invited to be on the Stanford bio4e Advisory Board. I am now exploring how to create a multigenerational project that blends the care of indigenous hala trees with the weaving of lauhala as technology and a medium for scientific inquiry.”

“This funding was truly a lifeline for a project that was on life support and we are so grateful for the support! When funding dried up, we were at risk of losing the progress we had made in restoration of kelp so far which would have been such a waste and erase all the progress achieved so far.”