Schmidt Futures bets early on exceptional people making the world better. Eric and Wendy Schmidt are the founders of Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic initiative that brings talent together into networks, bets on the most promising ideas through competition, and equips people to scale through partners and thoughtful application of modern tools.

Together with Rhodes Trust at the University of Oxford, SF runs the first cohort of RIse_ a global talent program that finds extraordinary young people who need opportunity and supports them for life as they use their talents to serve others.