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Bryan Johnson invests $100 million in Kernel to unlock the power of the human brain

news article · 2016
type:news article
year:2016
citation:Mannes, John. 'Bryan Johnson invests $100 million in Kernel to unlock the power of the human brain.' TechCrunch, 20 October 2016.
LINK
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/20/bryan-johnson-invests-100-million-in-kernel-to-unlock-the-power-of-the-human-brain/
SUMMARY
TechCrunch report (byline John Mannes, published 20 October 2016, 9:00am PDT; byline and date confirmed on the fetched page) stating: 'Johnson is investing $100 million of his own money into the concept,' referring to Kernel. Used to source the specific $100 million Kernel founding-investment figure. (A later TechCrunch report, 9 July 2020, notes Johnson had deployed $54 million of that commitment by the time of Kernel's first outside funding round; this bundle cites the 2016 announced-investment figure, which is the figure used in the case and practitioner prose.)
NOTES

Confirms, from a dated and bylined technology-press source rather than an unsourced aggregate claim, the $100 million figure Johnson announced investing in Kernel at its 2016 founding.