Inflection Fellowship
An immersive, fully funded Edge City experience for a person and their work.
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Fellowship
Why Inflection
Some moments change the direction of a life.
An inflection point is the moment when the right community, support, and early belief can change everything that follows. We look for people whose work feels early, unusual, or hard to place, then give them the time, resources, and community to move it forward.
Supported by the Jensen Jacket Fund. Its proceeds are dedicated to future Inflection Fellowship cohorts and Inflection Grants.
We fund exceptional builders 25 and under to spend a month at Edge City popup villages where the brightest minds at the frontiers of technology, science, and culture collaborate to build a brighter future.
The Fellowship experience
What
Fellows receive a full ride to an Edge City popup village, including travel, housing, and their village ticket. They also get focused time to work, mentorship, and a multidisciplinary community of builders working on hard problems.
Why
We believe that bringing together truly exceptional talent and giving them space, mentorship, and proximity to multidisciplinary peers is enough to catalyze magically weird ideas into real projects. Long-term, fellows tap the Edge and Long Journey networks for funding, collaborators, and the next chapter of their work.
You
Curious, kind, high-agency people who are 25 and under when the village begins and deep in something magically weird: a build, a paper, a practice, a problem space, or the kernel of an idea. Strong proof of work matters more than formal credentials.
WHO
The fellowship is run by Edge City and Long Journey Ventures. Edge City hosts month-long popup villages where people at the frontiers of technology, science, and culture live and work together. Long Journey is an early-stage venture firm whose portfolio includes SpaceX, Notion, DeepMind, and dozens of leading companies.
The wider Inflection Program
Two ways to back an inflection point.
Inflection Grants
Small grants that help an unusual idea, experiment, project, or next step move forward.
Explore Inflection GrantsHow this differs from the Long Journey Residency
The Long Journey Residency is a separate program for founders actively building companies. The Inflection Fellowship supports exceptional people and their work across many fields, with company creation as one possible outcome.
What success looks like
By the end of the fellowship, we hope each fellow has made meaningful progress on a body of work, contributed to village life, built high-quality relationships in fields they care about, and found a concrete next step for continuing the work.
Past fellows have built assistive robotics, advanced healthcare tools, explored new directions in AI and biotechnology, created art, and started companies.
Latest cohort · Edge Esmeralda 2026
Latest Fellows
Krystal Grover
Built SocratiCare, a patient-owned tool that turns a storm of symptoms into clearer questions for a doctor.
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Pranjali Awasthi
Building Meant, an AI communication tool that helps people express what they mean in their own voice.
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Heewon Ahn
Exploring non-text AI interaction through a drag-and-drop canvas inspired by the graphical user interface.
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Jake Lewin
Founder of dijie.me, a modern point-and-shoot camera connected to a social network.
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EE26
Sebastian Kot
Co-founder of London Quantum Group, building privacy-preserving infrastructure for healthcare data.
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EE26
Ryaan Aqid
Exploring how to engineer the conditions for human flourishing at civilizational scale.
Read profilePast Fellows
ECP25
Rucha Benare
PhD at Royal College of Surgeons Ireland
ECP25
Rhea Kapur
Stanford grad building system for ethnic identity discovery
ECP25
Brian Kelleher
2x founder, researching LLM mathematical reasoning
ECP25
Akshaya Dinesh
2x exited founder, Thiel Fellow, women's health
ECP25
Maxwell Opondo
Inclusive robotics for physical disabilities
EE25
Jason Hausenloy
Researching AI impacts on political systems
EE25
Nick Ford
Cell biology research on electrical signals
EE25
Janet Shin
90% cheaper brain imaging alternative to MRI
EE25
Yogya Kalra
Studying incentive structures in science
EE25
Alex DeNuzzo
Building AI agents with legal autonomy
EE25
Ivy Zhang
Researching open-ended AI systems
EE25
Minh (Anh) Nguyen
Decentralized messaging for Vietnamese users
ECL24
Rachel Lee
Sustainable agriculture project
ECL24
Rania Hashim
Precision fermentation research
ECL24
Leo Jankovic
Earthquake detection technology
EE24
Elizabeth Trykin
Biotechnology research
EE24
Denisa Lepadatu
Longevity research platform
EE24
Yudhister Kumar
AI alignment research
EE24
Anson Yu
Learning community building
ECP25
Sofia Scarlat
Fellowship Lead
ECL24
Jack Mielke
Fellowship program lead
EE24
Zelda Poem
Fellowship program lead
EE26
Lucas Chu
Inflection Fellowship program lead
Applications for Edge City India are now closed
The next Inflection Fellowship runs from October 11 to November 1, 2026 in Mandrem, North Goa.
Applications for this cohort are now closed.
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Applications for this cohort are now closed.
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