Working list of companies, programs, and ecosystem orgs to approach for sponsorship, token/compute credits, grants, or marketing partnerships. Compiled May 2026. Each subtask is one reach-out target with its category, why, ask, URL, and suggested wedge. Asks map to the NC sponsorship structure: Supporter ($250/mo), Builder ($1k/mo), Bespoke (custom in-kind), or apply to an existing program. The Moonshot wedge. Live conversation with Moonshot AI (Kimi) — use it as peer social proof, strongest for other Chinese open-weights labs (MiniMax, Z.ai, DeepSeek). Send order: Wave 1 peers/high-signal labs; Wave 2 infra/inference; Wave 3 dev tools & OSS programs; Wave 4 grant rails; Wave 5 marketing trades & ecosystem. Triage the three time-sensitive items first. Track replies and silences in one place; tag by Wave and revisit dead leads at 30 and 90 days.
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Offered to have a conversation - Chase to see if/when this is happening.
Explore Inrupt tech with Will to see if this can help us - send him some links to review
address on website and multi sig wallet set up
Sort out my nano collective email
Explore with WIll if this is an interesting angle to explore: https://claude.ai/share/219a3df6-edc6-4049-b7b1-3b542f7bc400