Clarifying here:
At Dappnode we have an agreement with General Magic to help us coordinate the grants. We are a small team and we want to focus on building the best products and we have missed grant opportunities because we don’t have the bandwidth to follow through. Hence, we delegated grant seeking to General Magic. The proposal is overseen by me and according to dappnode’s expertise and capability, and General Magic will not implement any of it - they are just helping us apply to this and other grants.
Side note: this is a common model in non-web3 environments. European Union and Governmental Grant Funding is often captured by experts that know the ins and outs of the legal and reporting requirements and these experts help finding funding and securing it so the companies applying can focus on what they do best, instead of the grueling reporting tasks of such grants. We (Dappnode) know these funding mechanisms well and it wasn’t a surprise at all to find a similar model with our agreement with General Magic.
Final Disclosure (which is not really a disclosure since it has always been public everywhere, plus Griff mentioned it above) @Griff is founder of Dappnode but not involved in the day-to-day operations. Unfortunately for him (sorry Griff ;P) he - or his other teams - won’t receive any of this funding aside from what we agree with General Magic as facilitator. We would very much appreciate not to be penalized for sharing a founder with other applicants.