Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal has unveiled his newest and perhaps most ambitious venture yet — Continue Research, a science-backed initiative probing the biological mechanisms of human aging. What began two years ago as a quiet research project has now evolved into a $25 million global fund, fully financed by Goyal himself, that will support scientists pushing the boundaries of longevity and human function.
The Vision: Extending Human Function, Not Escaping Death
In a reflective post announcing the expansion, Goyal explained that Continue started with a simple question — if the human body is a system, could it have “leverage points” that, when adjusted, dramatically affect how we age and live? His team of researchers, once skeptical, has spent the past two years pursuing what he calls a “penny-drop insight” into aging — one that could alter humanity’s understanding of biology forever.
But the goal, Goyal insists, is not immortality. Continue isn’t trying to “defeat death” but rather address what he calls “the mayfly mentality” — humanity’s short-term focus caused by short lifespans. “If we lived longer, we’d think longer,” his manifesto-style essay on the Continue website states. “A world run by mayflies will always make mayfly decisions — short-sighted, extractive, unsustainable. But a world led by people who live to see the consequences of their actions? That changes everything”.
Continue Research: A Laboratory for “Conscious Evolution”
The Continue initiative operates on the premise of “conscious evolution” — the idea that humans can deliberately accelerate biological progress instead of relying on nature’s slow adaptation cycles. Its team is researching “upstream mechanisms” in biology — simpler, system-level levers that might cascade across cellular functions to improve health and slow aging.
Unlike typical longevity startups obsessed with expensive supplements and biohacking, Continue Research takes a science-driven, open-access approach. Goyal calls it “a research team plus a seed fund for the next phase of human existence.” Every experiment, success, and failure funded through Continue will be open source, ensuring collective progress rather than proprietary gain.
The $25 Million Global Fund
In his announcement, Goyal committed $25 million (₹220 crore) of his own wealth to back researchers across the world who “dare to ask simpler questions than anyone else.” The initiative introduces two distinct funding tracks:
- Moonshots: Grants ranging from $50,000 to $250,000, designed to support early-stage, high-risk ideas that challenge mainstream scientific assumptions around aging.
- Deep Dives: Larger investments between $250,000 and $2 million, offered for 1–3-year projects attempting to validate or disprove major biological hypotheses.
This level of transparency sets Continue apart — all outcomes, including raw data and even failed experiments, must be made publicly available. The intent is to build a decentralized movement of scientists who think deeply, not just publish prolifically.
So many people keep asking me about Continue. What is it? What are you up to? Here you go…
— Deepinder Goyal (@deepigoyal) October 24, 2025
Continue started as a research effort two years ago, with the belief that if the human body is a system, it should also have its leverage points. The simple levers that, when adjusted,…
The Philosophy: Time as Civilization’s Core Bug
Much of Goyal’s vision revolves around time — or rather, its scarcity. He argues that the brevity of human life has shaped civilization’s worst habits: reckless consumption, short political cycles, and underinvestment in education and science. Extend human function beyond a century, he believes, and behavior itself would evolve.
“Patience would become a survival trait,” the Continue site notes. “Governments would plan for centuries. Education would last lifetimes. Families would span eight generations. Climate laws would be written by people expecting to live under them.” The idea reframes longevity not as personal ambition, but as a tool for collective responsibility.
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A Multi-Decadal Journey Toward a Post-Darwin World
Goyal calls Continue Research a “multi-decadal journey” — one that aims to usher humanity into what he terms the Post-Darwin era. The work may take decades to yield results, and the benefits will likely accrue not to current generations, but to the ones that follow. Yet, for him, it’s humanity’s moral obligation to begin this effort now.
He frames the project with characteristic humility: “We’re hoping to become a small catalyst in humanity’s journey of conscious evolution. For the first time in history, a species can choose what it becomes next — and we choose to try.”
With Continue, Deepinder Goyal is moving beyond entrepreneurship — venturing into a domain that blurs science, philosophy, and human purpose. What started as a founder’s curiosity about aging now reads like a blueprint for civilization’s next step — one where longer lifespans might finally bring longer-term wisdom
Know more about Continue in detail: https://www.continue.com/purpose
