Synchronous just raised seventy-five million dollars. The startup has developed an intelligent system that allows you to control mobile devices by thought. At the moment, the initiative is of course focused onaccessibility, but, eventually, we could all take advantage of it to order interfaces much faster than today. During a test relayed a little earlier this year, we could see a patient victim of paralysis dictate text to iPadOS via electrical impulses emanating directly from his brain. The result is certainly still very slow compared to the use of a traditional keyboard, but the concept has already won over the most serious investors.
Indeed, the round table just carried out brings together nothing less than Bezos Expeditions et Gates Frontier. The first fund is therefore that of the founder of Amazon, who led the company for twenty-five years before giving way to Andy Jassy. As for the second, who represents the interests of Bill Gates (Microsoft), we also owe him a bet on Heliogen, a company specializing in renewable energies and listed on the NYSE stock exchange.
Very encouraging first steps
Synchron is not at its first attempt, far from it. The firm can indeed pride itself on having already convinced other key figures in American capital, including Khosla Ventures (Atmos, Relay, Equii) for a total of one hundred and twenty-five million dollars since its inception. Along with this, the developer also received the FDA green light* to start clinical trials with a permanent implant. The target market would weigh twenty billion dollars, according to Doctor Thomas Oxley, of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. The neurologist is also CEO of Synchron and his work has already been rewarded by UNESCO in the past.
Today, some media on the other side of the Atlantic go so far as to compare the potential of Synchron with that of Neuralink. This alternative, although different in many aspects, is closely linked to the ambitions of Elon Musk, but much criticized for the sake of animal welfare…
We must bet on the future and quickly
At fifty-eight and sixty-seven years old respectively, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates must think about the health solutions of tomorrow if they wish to continue to bring their ideas for a better world to fruition, despite their age. We also know that the duo also has a foot in immortality researchor rather on the pursuit of efforts in the field of medical progress and transhumanism…
*Food and Drug Administration in the USA
