Brain-computer interfaces funding frontier: seventy active investors and their bets (2023)
A review of 65+ investors who made at least two investments in neurotech and brain-computer interfaces
Topic
neuro
a collection of notes, market landscapes, book summaries, and other artefacts on neurotech, neural, and brain interfaces
Neurotech monthly. June 2023
Transparent skull prosthetic and other frontier imaging tech, foundation models for image and video reconstruction, two neurotech market maps, a rare neurotech M&A, & EEG startups raising capital
Neurotech monthly. July 2021
BCI materials (graphene, hydrogel), hybrid stimulation ultrasound/optical and genetical, ML/DL and EEG. $$$ into invasive BCIs, CES, data platform
Neurotech monthly. June 2021
Progress in quantum tech & MEG, pipelines for EEG & fMRI, TMS startups raise capital, insights from a crowdfunding prospectus
Neurotechnology landscape: Europe (2021)
An overview of 67 European neurotech startups, industries/markets that they serve, and what layers of the tech stack they operate at
Neurotech monthly. May 2021
Ultrasound, brain-to-text BCI, synthetic data for neuroscience, Peter Thiel invests in neurotech
Neurotech monthly. April 2021
Ultrasound, brain-to-text BCI, synthetic data for neuroscience, Peter Thiel invests in neurotech
Neurotechnology landscape: beyond the healthcare market (2021)
An overview of 30 startups that work on various aspects of neurotech
Rethinking consciousness by Michael Graziano. A summary
‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’.
Arthur C. Clarke
This quote by Arthur C. Clarke in my opinion, is the best epigraph to ’Rethinking Consciousness’ by Michael Graziano.
Takeaways/interpretations
* Consciousness can be engineered;
* Attention schema and machinery that underlines it create simulations of our state of mind
What is consciousness? By Christof Koch. A summary
‘What Is Consciousness?’ By Christof Koch. A summary of the article in Scientific American magazine.
The article focuses mainly on the physical footprints of consciousness, less on philosophical discussions about it.
This footprint is the neuronal correlates of consciousness (NCC), or ‘the minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any specific