Analogue

Analogue is a philanthropic R&D platform that helps new lines of inquiry emerge before they are legible enough for traditional institutions to fund well. It scouts for original thinkers, seeds early experiments, and builds the conditions for new fields to form across science, technology, and culture.

New York City
Founded 2024

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Organization Type

Research lab
Nonprofit
Media org
Funder
Incubator / accelerator
Fellowship program
Corporate research lab
Collective

Industries

Engineering
Arts
Science
Complex Systems
Technology
Mathematics
Philosophy
Economics
Sociology
Psychology
Spirituality
Humanities

Funding

Privately Funded
Philanthropically Funded
Patronage
Donations

Philosophies

Experimental
Human flourishing
Frontier science
Progress studies

Vibes

Experimental
Infrastructure builder
Exploratory / weird
Collaborative
Slow research

Narrative

Analogue works upstream of normal institutional funding. It supports ideas, people, and prototypes that are still too early, strange, or cross-disciplinary for conventional grants, venture capital, or academia. Through curated salons, exploratory funding, media, and shared infrastructure, Analogue identifies promising reframes and helps them move from first intuition to expedition, pod, lab, public good, or real-world application. Its core belief is that many important future fields begin as scattered intuitions around unusual people, and that funding itself can be used as an experiment in how discovery happens.

Key People

Aishwarya Khanduja (Founder & Executive Director)

Breakthroughs

Expeditions, Research Revival Fund, Resonant Computing Lab -> models for pre-legible inquiry; Socratic Salons as a scouting engine for original talent; prospective metascience approach where funding itself is treated as an experiment; integration of science, technology, art, and cultural field-building; media platforms like Common Ground and Analogue Press for shaping taste and shared language

Related Entities

Analogue Press; Common Ground; Socratic Salons; The Second Renaissance; Expeditions; Research Revival Fund

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