A project by Protocol Labs

PL Neuro breaks through bottlenecks in neurotechnology and NeuroAI through strategic investment and scientific research.

About PL Neuro

PL Neuro exists to break bottlenecks: to define the milestones neurotech and NeuroAI need, drive the research that shifts what's believed possible, and route talent and capital to some of humanity's hardest and most important problems: neural augmentation, biologically-inspired intelligence, and whole organism emulation.

Neuroscience and AI technologies will qualitatively change the human experience of life.

Within five to ten years, brain–computer interfaces could radically reshape the treatment of brain disorders. Humans and machines may routinely co-process information via neural interfaces that expand cognitive abilities. Human-like AI, far more capable than current models, may integrate into our social and professional lives. Ultimately, we may even recapitulate our individual minds in simulation and thus enable digital forms.

But this future won't arrive by default. Progress is held back by fragmented data, scarce talent, misaligned capital, and regulatory uncertainty.

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Ecosystem Allies

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Netho Labs
Merge Labs
Science
Precision
Synchron
Paradromics Inc
Neuromatch
Renaissance Philantrophy
Foresight
Hemispheric
Motif
Convergent Research
E11 Bio
Echo Neuro Technologies
Eon

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Team & Advisors

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Juan Benet

Juan Benet

Founder and CEO

Founder & CEO of Protocol Labs and GP of PLC Neurotech ; He is a frontier technology investor across neurotech, crypto, AI, and biotech.

Sean Escola, M.D., Ph.D.

Sean Escola, M.D., Ph.D.

Chief Neuroscientist

Venture Partner of PLC Neurotech , former prof at Columbia, and former CEO of Herophilus; he invests in neuro, conducts computational neuroscience research, and is a psychiatrist.


Advisors

Adam Marblestone

Adam Marblestone

CEO & Co-Founder, Convergent Research

David A. Markowitz

David A. Markowitz

Chief Scientist, STR

Doris Tsao

Doris Tsao

Chief Scientist for Neuro, Astera, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Eddie Chang

Eddie Chang

Professor & Chair, UCSF Neurosurgery, CEO, Echo Neurotechnologies

Greg Wayne

Greg Wayne

Distinguished Scientist, Google DeepMind

Ilan Gur

Ilan Gur

Former CEO, ARIA

Matthew Botvinick

Matthew Botvinick

Technical Staff, Anthropic

Max Hodak

Max Hodak

Founder & CEO, Science Corporation