This Startup Will Preserve Your Brain after Death
Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that has built a reputation in supporting daring startups in its popular three-month boot camp. And surely, regarding this statement, they have found a gem in Nectome.
Next week scheduled YC’s “demo days”, Nectome’s co-founder Robert McIntyre will demonstrate his technology for preserving brains in their most microscopic detail using a high-tech embalming procedure. The business pitch the MIT graduate will conduct will most probably include the company’s catchphrase “What if we told you we could back up your mind?”
Nectome is a think-outside-the-box company that has the ambition of preserving brains and upload its content, just like we do with our mobiles on the cloud, except that it will be with our brains and memories… The chemical solution the...