Are you a builder, founder, or agitator working on technology that is too early or too ambitious for traditional funding? Do you want to build alternatives to the status quo and ensure that emerging technologies serve the people who use them? The Mozilla Foundation is now accepting Letters of Intent for its 2027–2028 Fellowship cohort—and this is an extraordinary opportunity to bring the wildest, most radical version of your idea to life.

This 12-month program will award 10 Fellowships to extraordinary individuals working at the edges of human imagination. As a Mozilla Fellow, you will join a global network of over 200 alumni, many of whom have gone on to found their own organizations. You can choose to work independently or embedded within a civil society organization, with funding packages ranging from $100,000 to $125,000 USD to cover your stipend and project budget.

Read on to find out if your work aligns with the fellowship’s focus areas, what the financial benefits cover, and how to submit your Letter of Intent before the December 17, 2026 deadline.

Quick Overview

Important Dates

Financial Benefits

If you are selected for the Mozilla Foundation Fellowships, your funding package will depend on the track you apply for. Here is what your funding package includes:

• Track I (Embedded Fellows): $75,000 USD personal stipend plus a $25,000 USD project budget ($100,000 total).
• Track II (Independent Fellows): $100,000 USD personal stipend plus a $25,000 USD project budget ($125,000 total).

Fellowship Tracks

The Fellowship has two distinct tracks tailored to builders at different stages of their projects:

Focus Areas

This cohort is looking for individuals reimagining emerging technology. Your work should fall into one of the following priority areas:

• Neurotech, biotech, and physical AI: Ensuring communities touch, own, shape, and govern tech that moves into our brains, bodies, and land.
• Hard infrastructure: Opening up compute, energy, and quantum infrastructure so communities get the data, tools, and a vote.
• Raising p(bloom): Building AI that actively makes life better for more people rather than hiding behind safety gatekeeping.
• Business models for a post-agentic web: Creating new models so creators, communities, and the open web still get paid.
• Shared security and audit infrastructure: Making security affordable and accessible for small organizations.
• Sovereign AI, public infrastructure, and maintenance: Funding AI and infrastructure that communities can own and run independently.
• Creative Advocacy (1 Fellow): Reserved for a culture jammer, prankster, or artist-provocateur who can turn a stunt into a movement.
• Wildcard: If your idea does not fit the above but is too ambitious or unexpected for anyone else to fund, you can apply as a wildcard.

Eligibility Requirements

To be eligible for the Mozilla Foundation Fellowship, you must meet the following criteria:

• You must be a builder, founder, agitator, or technologist with a radical vision for the future of technology.
• Your work must align with the goal of creating technology that is people-powered, open by design, and questions who gets to decide its future.
• You must commit to the 12-month program duration starting June 1, 2027.
• For Track I, you must be willing to collaborate with and be backed by one of the specific civil society host organizations.

How to Apply

If you are interested in applying for the Mozilla Foundation Fellowships, follow these steps carefully:

1. Review the full Request for Proposals (RFP) on the official website to ensure your project fits the focus areas or qualifies as a wildcard.
2. Prepare and submit your Letter of Intent (LOI) before the December 17, 2026 deadline.
3. If shortlisted, you will receive an invitation on February 16, 2027, to submit a full application.
4. Submit the full application by March 12, 2027.
5. Wait for the final notification on April 30, 2027.

Submit Letter of Intent →

For nominations, please visit the Nomination Portal.
For more information, please visit the
Mozilla Foundation official website.

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