(1) Describe your startup.
Cerebian is building a Brain OS; a full-stack neural interface that expands the way humans interact with each other and the world.
(2) What inspired the creation of the startup?
Technology is the tool we use to empower our lives. Smartphones make us smarter by virtue of having them.
When you look at it this way, technologies give us a superpower. What if we can amplify that?
Cerebian’s Brain Operating System gives users instant access to computing making humans infinitely smarter.
(3) What differentiates your startup from the competition?
Aside from our product, IP, market strategy etc… one thing stands out:
Cerebian’s technology only measures what the user voluntarily wants it to measure. It does not “read thoughts” like what Facebook and Neuralink are working on. That’s a big win for the users. Connecting brains to computers while keeping user privacy top of mind.
(4) Who is the target market?
We’re focused on applications in Gaming and Consumer (personal market) and cultivating a developer ecosystem where others can build Apps for the brain using BrainOS.
(5) What stage are you at?
We’re packaging our functional prototype into a product. Keep an eye out for us.
(6) What are some of the biggest challenges that your startup have had to overcome?
The most difficult challenge we’ve had to overcome is building an emerging product faster than the research publicly available on it. It’s tough being in a race to build something that even research labs are still figuring out how to publish papers on. I’ve been in various conversations over the past couple of years where experts and PhD’s in the field told me “it’s not possible”. Some of them are now writing new papers on the topics and approaches we discussed. Cerebian has done a good job at it so far.
(7) What is next for the startup?
Getting to market. This is the time for neural interfaces to enter the market. It will be pervasive in the next 5 years. We’re focused on getting to market. And doing so with a privacy-centric product that makes human-computer interaction fluid.
(8) Where would you like to be in the next 5 years?
The full-stack infrastructure on which all Brain-Computer Apps are deployed.
(9) If you had to give one piece of advice to an up and coming startup what would it be?
Go by First-Principles.
When it comes to the market, feedback is of utmost importance. However when it comes to breaking barriers in building the technology; other people’s opinions of what’s possible are completely irrelevant – as long as you go by first principles.
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