







Why we invested in Tangible
A Trillion-Dollar Industry Deserves a Better Engine — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation
With a new wave of philanthropic capital on the horizon, the most pressing binding constraint on that capital won't be the will to give it away; it will be the operational capacity to do so well.


A better future won’t just be built by billionaires.
No billionaire gets to decide the future for everyone else. The future we deserve is one we build together. Join us.

The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Tran…
A cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial chang…


This is how we build the future: Teaching Regenerative Economics at all levels with Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann
How do we let go of the sense of scarcity, separation and powerlessness that defines the ways we live, care and do business together? How can we best equip our young people for the world that is coming - which is so, so different from the future we grew up believing was possible?

How to not spend it
It is tough for a small democracy to run the world’s biggest sovereign-wealth fund

Money for mutual resilience: Introducing Blacksky Cash
Mutual aid has always been about more than money. But money, shared intentionally, can be a powerful expression of solidarity. This is us building toward that future.

Supporting ambitious external research through the Anthropic Economic Futures Research Fund
We’re committing $200 million to the Anthropic Economic Futures Research Fund to support ambitious external research.

Perpetual futures, explained
Capital efficiency for pros, leverage for bettors, rich yields for market makers, and a dangerous failure mode.

Rethinking AI for Science Funding
As science stands at an inflection point, how do we organize capital to shape the future of discovery?

Reasonable
A straightforward funding mechanism that rewards innovators and risk-takers while remaining sensitive to the social impact of new…

The Race to Allocate One Trillion Dollars in Philanthropic Capital
Frontier Lab IPOs are coming, and philanthropy isn’t ready

There are two questions you need to answer when building something new: who is this for, and where is the money going to come from? Some longer thoughts on my exchange with @mosh.bsky.social about the ATproto ecosystem, and its needing a business focus. numergent.com/2026-08/Project-Product-Start…
Project vs. Product, Startup vs. Business
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