About Let’s Fund

About Let's Fund

Let's Fund helps you discover and fund breakthrough research, policy and advocacy projects.

We use the principles of Effective Altruism to find the projects that we believe will do a lot of good. We do in-depth research, which we make public, so that you can make an informed donation.

Instead of directing funds to established charities with considerable room for more funding, Let's Fund moves money to smaller, fledgling projects, especially in the research, policy and advocacy space.

Put simply: we want to help you fund projects that aren't a sure bet, but will be enormously impactful if successful.

We believe that donors should be less risk-averse when it comes to giving to charity, and want to curate and promote high-risk, high-reward charitable projects.

Our Team

Hauke Hillebrandt, PhD - CEO and CSO

Hauke is the founder and CEO of Let's Fund and does the research into highly effective donation opportunities. Previously, he worked as a Research Associate at the Center for Global Development and a researcher at the Centre for Effective Altruism in Oxford. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London, was a fellow at Harvard University and has published peer-reviewed papers with more than 250 citations.

Hauke's CV

Henry Stanley - CTO

Henry co-founded Let's Fund. He is currently the co-founder and CTO of Mast. Previously, he was a software engineer at Thought Machine and Pivotal, where he developed a backup and restore framework for which he was awarded a patent. Henry built EA Work Club, a job board for effective altruists.

Sahil Shah - COO

Sahil works on operations and business development for Let's Fund. He was previously a management consultant at Kearney, and a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. He co-founded Sustainable Seaweed, scaling seaweed cultivation for food security and blue carbon sinks.

Let's Fund is a project of the Center For Applied Utilitarianism Ltd (England and Wales, company number 11530336) and the Applied Utilitarianism Institute (USA, EIN 93-1742263).