Restless Egg is the incubator for artist-founders: creators who treat technology as their canvas.

We incubate and invest in the emerging genre of artist-founders, those who through rigorous creative experimentation have found the limits of existing technology and wish to make an intervention in this system by building their own products.

Stipends for our 6-month program to go from idea to product.

Hands on support from us and our network for product development, strategy and fundraising.

Access to a network of founders, technologists and early-stage investors.

Discretionary follow-on investment after 6 months to further scale projects.

The amount of funding necessary will depend on the project, our offer ranges from $50k - $200k for this initial period.

In return we take a small equity stake in your product. Restless Egg only sees any financial benefit if your product is a commercial success. We only succeed if you do. If your product doesn’t work out, you don’t owe us anything. Our mission is to develop a sustainable network and financial ecosystem for artist-founders.


Technology is more than a tool, it’s a medium for creative and intuitive expression that reshapes how we engage with the world.

Today, new methodologies and visionaries are needed to generate interventions with the most pressing problems of the present.

As startups once reinvented corporations, artist-founders have the opportunity to reshape the startup model. Restless Egg is your partner for creating novel organizational structures and institutional forms that foster creativity, embrace risk, and deliver meaningful change.

We have the components, now we need to bring them together.

Restless Egg is the incubator for Artist-Founders

We identify and invest in creators who treat technology as their canvas

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Batch 1 - 2026

Restless Egg is the incubator for artist-founders: creators who treat technology as their canvas.

Sylvan Interview with Steamul8

Disautomatising Tech @Trust Berlin with David Bates

London Launch Dinner

The Egg and the Chicken - Lispector

On Eggs - Laurel Schwulst

Art Made AI - Mat Dryhurst, Flora Weil, Sarah Drinkwater

14 Theses on Frontier Technologies and Founders

Systems Esthetics - Jack Burnham

The Artist of the Future - Gary Zhexi Zhang

Seeding Infinite Games - Reggie James

Betaworks AI Camp: Native Applications

Inventing on Principle - Bret Victor

Ian Cheng - Art and Obscolesence 

Interplay Book

Interplay: Medialab Matadero

Nephila Private - pwd: restlessegg

Laser Days

Ian Cheng's Opponent: Demo Day

Rif.ke

Relational Aesthetics - Bourriaud

limn.ai

The Age of the Artist Founder

Is Another Technology Possible? Another Technology is Possible.

Designing Uncertain Tools - Hebron

New Types of Research Organizations - Arbesman

Technology entrepreneurship and the disruption of ambition - Matt Clifford

Stop Fetishizing the Power-Law - Indy Johar

FACEMINER

SF Communities for New Founders

Caldo Worldwide

Wise Festival Berlin

HUM by Tania Candiani

Special Projects

Akiya Collective

What Do You Do with an Idea - Kobi Yamada

"Beuys" - Werner Nekes

Artist-Founder | Are.na

Artist-Corporations

Future Art Ecosystem 5: Art x Creative R&D

@cl0udyh3art

Æffective Tech - 9 Jul 25

What is Artificial Experience (AX)?

Half Dozen is a fortnightly foray into the world of arts & technology startups and founders. Every two weeks we’ll deliver a curated mix of invitations and recaps, market news, founder updates, and behind-the-scenes peeks at what we’re building. 

Half-Dozen