{"id":165602,"date":"2023-06-11T23:28:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/its-alive-this-billionaire-funds-startup-growing-brain-cell-biocomputers"},"modified":"2023-06-11T23:28:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:28:59","slug":"its-alive-this-billionaire-funds-startup-growing-brain-cell-biocomputers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/its-alive-this-billionaire-funds-startup-growing-brain-cell-biocomputers","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Alive? This Billionaire Funds Startup Growing Brain Cell \u2018Biocomputers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-alive-this-billionaire-funds-startup-growing-brain-cell-biocomputers3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Billionaire investor <strong>Li Ka-Shing<\/strong> is funding a new technology that can potentially rival artificial intelligence (AI) by using brain cells blended with computers in a technology it calls <strong>DishBrain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Peter Thiel, Mark Cuban and Warren Buffet funded early-stage startups and made millions. You don\u2019t need to be a well-connected billionaire to do the same. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/alternative-investments\/startups\">Click here to invest in promising startups today<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This science fiction-sounding tech comes from Australian biotech firm <strong>Cortical Labs.<\/strong> The company recently raised $10 million in a round led by Horizons Ventures, the investment vehicle of the 94-year-old Ka-Shing, the richest person in Hong Kong. Additional investors included Blackbird Ventures, an Australian venture capital (VC) fund; In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency; U.S. firm LifeX Ventures; and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire investor Li Ka-Shing is funding a new technology that can potentially rival artificial intelligence (AI) by using brain cells blended with computers in a technology it calls DishBrain. Peter Thiel, Mark Cuban and Warren Buffet funded early-stage startups and made millions. You don\u2019t need to be a well-connected billionaire to do the same. Click [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}