Momental Foundation

The Momental Foundation is a nonprofit grantmaker and impact-focused hardware accelerator located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our mission is to build bridges between the academic, entrepreneurial, and civil communities to create a more human-centered and sustainable future through technology. The Foundation is a spinoff company from Mistletoe, Inc., which was founded by serial entrepreneur and venture funder, Taizo Son in 2013. We are proud to be a member organization of the global Mistletoe Collective Impact Community, dedicated to scientific and technological advancement for the public good. The Momental Foundation's flagship initiative is the Mistletoe Research Fellowship, open to postdoctoral fellows and advanced PhD candidates at R1 partner universities. Our Unfettered Grant Program provides unrestricted funding to our pool of Mistletoe Research Fellows to support their research activities, including conference travel. Our fellows also participate in an extracurricular professional development program, the MRF Startup Collaboration, in which they train and collaborate with frontier technology hardware startups developing products with high potential for social and humanitarian impact.