The science is proven on the fly. The next brain is the mouse — the same pipeline, scaled. That's what this round funds.
Eon digitizes life. We map a brain at synaptic resolution, learn how its wiring produces activity, and run the result as a living, embodied emulation — read the brain, learn its dynamics, run it.
We've mapped more mouse brain at synaptic resolution than the entire published record — combined — and our fly-brain emulation, published in Nature, predicts neural activity with >90% accuracy.
3.3 mm³
of mouse brain mapped at synapse resolution — ~59% of the worldwide total, more than the rest of the world combined
accuracy predicting neural activity from a connectome — published in Nature
18k+
citations across our scientific founders — 200+ papers, 15+ in Cell, Nature or Science
120M+
views of our embodied fly-brain emulation
The unlock
We've solved the microscopy problem.
Imaging a whole brain at synaptic resolution has been the field's bottleneck — slow, costly, artisanal. We've solved it: an industrial pipeline that turns whole-brain connectomics from a decade-long academic project into manufacturing. That's the unlock that puts a mouse brain within a year, and a human brain within reach.
The path to a human brain
Phase 1 · Year 1 · $50M
The mouse
A complete connectome + embodied emulation
The decisive proving ground — large enough to force every hard problem of mammalian emulation into the open, small enough to finish. The same pipeline that worked on the fly.
Phase 2 · by end of 2028 · +$250M
The human
The first whole human-brain connectome
Same framework, scaled — plus the paired structure-and-function data that makes the map runnable.
Why this matters
If this works, the upside isn't incremental. Minds preserved beyond biological death. Mental illness modeled mechanistically instead of by symptom. And advanced AI built from minds that begin with human values — the safety-positive path to intelligence, not black-box optimization. Eon is a public-benefit company built for that outcome. Read the full vision →