Elon Musk and has dealt with his multiple businesses. Among them is the Neuralink brain implant company, which on Monday has announced the closure of a financing round in which it has caught 650 million dollars (about 570 million euros).
“We have closed our financing round of the E series worth $ 650 million with the participation of key investors, including Ark Invest, DFJ Growth, Founders Fund, G42, Human Capital, Lightspeed, Qia, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Equity Partners Value and Vy Capital, among others,”
Neurlalink does not indicate the valuation with which capital expansion has been carried out. Specialized risk capital publications recently valued the company at 9,000 million dollars.
The company says that the new financing will accelerate its efforts to expand the access of patients to their technology and innovate in future devices that “deepen the connection between biological intelligence and artificial intelligence.”
From the previous financing round, carried out in August 2023, five people with severe paralysis use Neuralink to control digital and physical devices with their thoughts, “which is a great step forward to help them recover their independence,” says Neuralink.
Neuralink in a human brain. “You are recovering well,” Musk said on social network X after surgical intervention. “The initial results show neuronal electrical impulses,” he added. In August, he successfully completed his second implant. The patient, tetraplicic, took less than five minutes to start controlling a cursor with the mind from the first moment he connected his implant to his computer. In a few hours, he was able to overcome the maximum speed and precision that he had reached with any other assistance technology. The patient played video games and even designed three -dimensional objects with a software for the effect.
In addition, the Musk company has launched clinical trials at the Neurological Barow Institute, the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis of the University of Miami, and the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.
Neuralink seeks to go beyond the control of digital devices with the mind and has launched vision and speech restoration programs. “Neuralink’s armor will allow even those who have lost both eyes and the optical nerve”, “provided that the visual cortex is intact, will allow to see for the first time even the blind of birth. So that the expectations are correct, the vision will be at the beginning of low resolution, such as the graphics of Atari, but over time it has the potential to be better than the natural vision and allow to see in infrared, Ultraviolet or even in radar wavelengths, ”he added.
Last November, Neuralink announced that he had received authorization to prove a technology with the objective of it is an incipient essay and any development in this regard may take years to be tested and authorized.
“We have made an important investment to expand the number of neurons and brain regions with which our device interacts, in order to open new dimensions of human potential,” says the company now.
