Horizons Ventures has led a USD$10 million funding round into Cortical Labs, creators of the DishBrain - a technology that fuses living brain cells onto computing devices to create machines with biological intelligence.
Horizons Ventures co-led Juvena Therapeutics’s Series A financing with Mubadala Capital. This $41 Million financing allows the company to accelerate the discovery and development of biologic drugs for chronic, age-related diseases.
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Cortical Labs raises $10M for its Pong-playing stem cells which eventually could power AI
Cortical Labs raises $10 million to develop biocomputers combining human neurons and silicon hardware. Horizons Ventures leads the round, with participation from LifeX Ventures, Blackbird Ventures, Radar Ventures, and In-Q-Tel. The company says its DishBrain technology is fulfilling orders; its neurons demonstrated the ability to play Pong in a 2022 scientific paper, and the systems could support drug testing and research into cognition.
