Nigerians are awesome. A young Lagos-born entrepreneur-but-now in California is extending the boundaries of impossibilities. Oshiorenoya Agabi runs Koniku which operates at the intersection of biotechnology and electronics. According to an entry in Crunchbase, the startup proclaims thus:

Koniku is the world’s first Neurocomputation company. We start with a premise that the human brain is the most powerful computer ever devised. We show that capturing that computational power is an engineering problem. Koniku proceeds to meet that challenge with clear solutions.

With his startup Koniku, Oshiorenoya Agabi is working to integrate biological neurons and silicon computer chips, to build computers that can think like humans can. Faster, cleverer computer chips are key to solving the next big batch of computing problems, like particle detection or sophisticated climate modeling — and to get there, we need to move beyond the limitations of silicon, Agabi believes. Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Agabi is now based in the SF Bay Area, where he and his lab mates are working on the puzzle of connecting silicon to biological systems.

“Koniku eventually aims to build a device that is capable of thinking in the biological sense, like a human being. We think we can do this in the next two to five years.” — Oshiorenoya Agabi

Agabi had raised $250,000 in seed funding. He did that in Sept 2015. He followed with another $1.4 million in venture funds last August. He is hoping to be in the markets with his chips later this year (87 days from today, exactly).

According to Vice, “Koniku, which completed a stint at the biotech accelerator IndieBio, touts itself as “the first and only company on the planet building chips with biological neurons.” Rather than simply mimic brain function with chips, Agabi hopes to flip the script and borrow the actual material of human brains to create the chips. He’s integrating lab-grown neurons onto computer chips in an effort to make them much more powerful than their standard silicon forebears”.

http://tekedia.com/65222/nigeria-born-konikus-founder-oshiorenoya-agabi-is-changing-computing-with-his-microprocessors/

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glad he escaped this country...

that dream would have died if he did not leave this God forsaken country,9ja!!!
We've got so many talented people in this country, but the foolish and selfish leaders would not help them achieve their dreams...

Nice one...

This is nice. Congrats young man.

Good he left this country. Keep making Nigeria proud brother.





No NCAN member should come here oooo. He's a Nigerian

I like him, my kind of person , even his pic shows he is committed to excellence

Koniku eventually aims to build a device that is capable of thinking in the biological sense, like a human being. We think we can do this in the next two to five years.” — Oshiorenoya Agabi

Now that's scary,

In other words, the guy wants to build brains that might decide eventually that they are superior to humans and decide to take over.

Naa....don't want that.!

Bros abeg never come back now Evans has issue out first batch

Oh Nice... Would love to see it in action when mass-produced..

Great he is not in Nigeria; the country kills talent overnight

Thank God our system didn't finish him off

Round of applause.

Nice one

make us proud

This is awesome

Just wondering if this would have been possible if he was in Nigeria

Just came to book this land for my unborn baby mama

dhebo:
glad he escaped this country...

Nice

am not a member of name checkers association because we don't do that nonsense here in edo state but let me say because this oshiorenoya is from edo the poster didn't specify his state of origin.
Edo always excel but they don't make noise!

have this natural likeness for computers
wanted to get computer science or computer engineering but luckily for me uniben gave me one. computer science
but computer engineering would have been better so I can learn computer hard wares like this oshiorenoya
but instead uniben gave me computer science so I will be killing myself on programming. Pascal, fortran.
anyway am managing it. at all at all na im bad

Congrats man. Naija is proud of u

cc: lalasticlala

Since you said he's a Nigerian, I believe he can. We are that "sharp" as a people.



I have some wonderful ideas I wanna realize , but can't seem to get funding or a startup to fund the research. Most of them are willing to give you 5% of your own brain work while they make a fortune.

this kind of person use to be class prefect in junior class hope am right?

Innovative

Good thinking.
Meanwhile, here in Nigeria, most people (kids, teenagers, youths, Adults etc) are more concerned with trivial things like ethnic,tribal & religious bias & sentiments.
I'm honestly tired of the people of this country.

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Nigerians are awesome. A young Lagos-born entrepreneur-but-now in California is extending the boundaries of impossibilities. Oshiorenoya Agabi runs Koniku which operates at the intersection of biotechnology and electronics. According to an entry in Crunchbase, the startup proclaims thus:

Koniku is the world’s first Neurocomputation company. We start with a premise that the human brain is the most powerful computer ever devised. We show that capturing that computational power is an engineering problem. Koniku proceeds to meet that challenge with clear solutions.

With his startup Koniku, Oshiorenoya Agabi is working to integrate biological neurons and silicon computer chips, to build computers that can think like humans can. Faster, cleverer computer chips are key to solving the next big batch of computing problems, like particle detection or sophisticated climate modeling — and to get there, we need to move beyond the limitations of silicon, Agabi believes. Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Agabi is now based in the SF Bay Area, where he and his lab mates are working on the puzzle of connecting silicon to biological systems.

“Koniku eventually aims to build a device that is capable of thinking in the biological sense, like a human being. We think we can do this in the next two to five years.” — Oshiorenoya Agabi

Agabi had raised $250,000 in seed funding. He did that in Sept 2015. He followed with another $1.4 million in venture funds last August. He is hoping to be in the markets with his chips later this year (87 days from today, exactly).

According to Vice, “Koniku, which completed a stint at the biotech accelerator IndieBio, touts itself as “the first and only company on the planet building chips with biological neurons.” Rather than simply mimic brain function with chips, Agabi hopes to flip the script and borrow the actual material of human brains to create the chips. He’s integrating lab-grown neurons onto computer chips in an effort to make them much more powerful than their standard silicon forebears”.

http://tekedia.com/65222/nigeria-born-konikus-founder-oshiorenoya-agabi-is-changing-computing-with-his-microprocessors/

Is he Kanu Agabi's son?

He looks like Kanu Agabi.

Good that u went out of this useless country to establish yourself where u will be utmost appreciated cos ur talent is rare.

Weldon