Deepinder Goyal funds Continue Research with $25 million to back longevity researchers

Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal has announced the expansion of his health-focussed venture, Continue Research, with the launch of a $25-million fund to support researchers exploring fundamental questions about human biology and aging.

“This will be a multi-decadal journey. Our goal here is to become a small catalyst in humanity's journey of conscious evolution. To lead us into the post-Darwin era,” Goyal said in an X post. “Researchers, please look us up and apply,” the post read, followed by a link to apply.

The fund is backed entirely by Goyal’s personal capital.


He explained that Continue Research was started two years ago in an effort to identify simple leverage points in the human body that could potentially alter aging.

The new fund has two structures — Moonshots and Deep Dives. The former will have a cheque size between $50,000 and $250,000 for idea-stage research with a timeline of 6-12 months. The latter will have a cheque size between $250,000 and $2 million for research spanning 1-3 years to turn correlation into causation or prove something wrong.

Goyal said Continue Research is neither a startup nor a company, but a seed fund with a research team focused on the next phase of human biology.

The research done as part of this will be open source, which means others are free to use it.

“...our endeavour will be to find answers and interventions that can be made accessible to the entire population, and not just to the elite few,” Goyal noted in his X post.

Human aging

Goyal also talked about the evolution of human bodies, which have slowly adapted to the climate, disease, food, etc. However, he said in the digital age, things are changing faster than biology can cope with. “Climate change, nuclear weapons, AI — these require long-term wisdom; we don't live long enough to develop (that).”

Elaborating on the project, Goyal said, “We've been investigating a penny-drop insight into human aging. We are at the tail-end of the research…which, if true, could fundamentally change our understanding of biology and aging.”

As per the blog post, the research is on the human aging process, studying the biological blueprint, and finding the answer to what “longer, healthier lives actually look like in practice.”

Answering the question `What if we lived for 180 years instead of 80?’, Goyal said in the blog that some of the key findings include: a stretched time horizon, patience as a survival trait, lifelong education, etc. He said he will share more details of their findings in the next few weeks.

Beyond Eternal

The Continue Research fund will be Goyal’s second endeavour beyond the Eternal universe. Prior to this, Goyal had invested $20 million in LAT Aerospace, a startup founded by Surobhi Das along with Goyal.

ET reported in March that Goyal will be a non-executive cofounder at LAT Aerospace, with Das, formerly Zomato's chief operating officer, running the operations.

LAT Aerospace plans to build low-cost short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft, which will have up to eight seats for medium-haul flights, focusing on regional connectivity. The company's website shows it is hiring in Delhi NCR for building the hybrid-electric aircraft, and in Bengaluru for building a gas turbine engine.

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