Funders

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing is supported in part by the Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International.

We welcome funding from a variety of sources:

We collaborate with industry through our Institutional Partner program, which currently includes these partners: ADIA Lab, Apple, Bridgewater Associates, Google, Jane Street, and Oski Technology/Nvidia, and these sponsors:  Algorand, AWS, NTT Research, and Stellar Foundation. Former Industry partners and sponsors include Calibra/Facebook, IBM, IVADO, JP Morgan, Microsoft Research, PayPal, ProtocolAi, RelationalAi, Ripple, Roc360, Qualcomm, Swiss Re, and VMware.

Since the start of the Institute, we have benefitted from the support of many grantmakers, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Security Agency (NSA), Kavli Foundation, McGovern Foundation, Schmidt Futures, Sloan Foundation, Templeton Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

We partner with fellow academic institutions in support of our Research Fellowships program.

We also welcome contributions from private individuals to our Simons Institute Fund and  Richard M. Karp Fund, which honors the scientific contributions of our founding director, Dick Karp.