The Startup Landscape for Expanding Consciousness
Business Trip, a podcast about the business of psychedelics
Welcome back to Business Trip by PsyMed Ventures, a podcast about the business of psychedelics! 🍄
Psychedelics have long been known to induce altered states of consciousness. But there are many other techniques that can also expand our awareness - from meditation and breathwork to exploring dreams, prayer, light and sound. In this episode, Greg speaks with Scott Britton about the emerging startup landscape around tools for expanding consciousness.
Scott is an entrepreneur who now writes a newsletter called Consciousness ∞ The Doorway to Human Evolution He also hosts a podcast called EvolutionFM.
This special episode is a deeper dive into Greg & Scott’s recent article about the consciousness startup ecosystem.
In this episode, we discuss:
VC-backable business models in psychedelic medicine
Hardware devices that induce deeper meditation and lucid dream states
Breathwork: app vs. in-person experiences
Prayer apps attracting huge investment
Startups using sound, light, and visuals to catalyze altered states
Integrating ancient wisdom into modern consciousness-expanding tech
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About Us
Business Trip by PsyMed Ventures is a podcast about psychedelic startups. Each episode features a new company in the field, ranging from biotech startups developing novel compounds, to clinics and retreats for healing, to software companies building tools to power the ecosystem.
Business Trip is produced by Greg Kubin and Matias Serebrinsky — we’re partners at PsyMed Ventures, advocates of the healing powers of psychedelic medicine.
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