brain-tech

Kernel raises $53 million to ease access to rich neural data and market Neuroscience as a Service (NaaS)

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Ker­nel Sound ID is designed to help decode and visu­al­ize what a per­son is hearing

Ker­nel rais­es $53 mil­lion to bring neu­ro­science insights to busi­ness­es (Ven­ture­Beat):

Ker­nel has raised $53 mil­lion to accel­er­ate devel­op­ment of a new gen­er­a­tion of brain tech, help­ing com­pa­nies lever­age insights from the lat­est advances in neuroscience.

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Eight brain tech insights and a special offer to honor Brain Awareness Week 2020

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Every March, Brain Aware­ness Week (BAW) unites hun­dreds of orga­ni­za­tions world­wide in a cel­e­bra­tion of the brain for peo­ple of all ages. Activ­i­ties typ­i­cal­ly include open days at neu­ro­science labs, exhi­bi­tions about the brain, lec­tures on brain-relat­ed top­ics, dis­plays at libraries and com­mu­ni­ty cen­ters, class­room work­shops, and more.

Brain Aware­ness Week 2020 starts today, Mon­day March 16th.

To con­tribute to such a glob­al edu­ca­tion­al cam­paign, espe­cial­ly now that many phys­i­cal events have been can­celled, we are offer­ing our best edu­ca­tion­al and pro­fes­sion­al resources at a 90% dis­count from today till Sun­day, March 22th.

–> To ben­e­fit from this oppor­tu­ni­ty, use this dis­count code: Brain­Week

 

Stay Healthy, Stay Warm, let’s Har­ness this oppor­tu­ni­ty to Sharp­en our Minds and Explore the lat­est on brain health and neurotechnology!

 

Our core edu­ca­tion­al and pro­fes­sion­al resources offered at a 90% dis­count this week: [Read more…] about Eight brain tech insights and a spe­cial offer to hon­or Brain Aware­ness Week 2020

Save the Date for Brainnovations Pitch Contest on December 5th

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Giv­en the suc­cess of the first Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test last year (details here), the 2018 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit will host a sec­ond Brainnova­tions edi­tion, for 12 select­ed star­tups to pitch their inno­v­a­tive solu­tions to to all Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants and to our dis­tin­guished Judges –our very own “Sharp Tank”:

  • Dr. Hag­it Alon, VP Sci­en­tif­ic Affairs at Joy Ven­tures
  • Dr. David Barash, Chief Med­ical Offi­cer at the GE Foun­da­tion
  • Nichol Brad­ford, Co-Founder and ED of the Trans­for­ma­tive Tech Lab
  • John Cam­mack, Angel Investor
  • Ariel Garten, Founder and Chief Evan­ge­lism Offi­cer at Inter­aX­on
  • Dr. Evian Gor­don, Exec­u­tive Chair­man of Brain Resource
  • Dr. Adam Haim, Chief of the Small Busi­ness Inno­va­tion Research (SBIR) and Small Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Trans­fer (STTR) Pro­grams at the Nation­al Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (NIMH)
  • Kath­leen Herath, Asso­ciate Vice Pres­i­dent Health & Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty at Nation­wide Insurance
  • Chris­t­ian Her­nan­dez, Man­ag­ing Part­ner at White Star Capital
  • Dr. Edward Kli­phuis, Invest­ment Direc­tor at Mer­ck Ventures
  • Dr. Cori Lath­an, Co-Chair of the World Eco­nom­ic Forum’s Coun­cil on the Future of Human Enhancement
  • Dr. Manuel López-Figueroa, Ven­ture Part­ner at Bay City Capital
  • Zack Lynch, Gen­er­al Part­ner at JAZZ Ven­ture Partners
  • Dr. Eddie Mar­tuc­ci, Co-Founder and CEO of Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs
  • Dr. Karen Postal, Pres­i­dent of the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Clin­i­cal Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy (AACN)
  • Yan­nick Roy, Co-Founder of Neu­roTechX

We’ll announce more details by July 2nd, 2018. In the mean­time you can learn more here, here and here.

–-This will be the Brain­no­va­tions Judg­ing Panel…our very own “Sharp Tank”

BrainTech and Sustainable Brains

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Just read an arti­cle on clean tech, includ­ing a cou­ple of quotes by Klein­er Perkins’ John Doerr sug­gest­ing that

“Remem­ber the Inter­net? Green tech is big­ger… This could be the biggest eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ty of the 21st century”

because

“Ener­gy is the moth­er of all markets”.

Well, if Ener­gy is the moth­er of all markets…who would be the father of all markets?

The Human Brain, perhaps?

So, I may both agree and dis­agree with John Doerr: yes, clean tech should be big­ger than the Inter­net, and per­haps the biggest eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ty in the next 10–15 years…but Brain­Tech, tech­nolo­gies aimed at help­ing our brains be more pro­duc­tive and sus­tain­able through­out their lifes­pans, may become the biggest oppor­tu­ni­ty of the 21st cen­tu­ry. We’ll see.