A grant from the Mercatus Center's program for ambitious ideas, to build private AI that runs at home, before the first model shipped.
Backed before the first model
In September 2026, Emergent Ventures backed Sublunar with a grant, before the first model had shipped.
What Emergent Ventures is
Emergent Ventures is the Mercatus Center's grant program for ambitious people and ideas. It funds early, and it funds people.
Why it matters
Combining your life with AI is clearly the future, and it has a serious privacy problem. The grant backs a way around it: AI that runs at home.