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In February 2018, Good Ventures LLC invested $14 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund investing in novel science to create new medicines for dementia, which affects more than 47 million people worldwide.
The Good Ventures Foundation, at the recommendation of Open Philanthropy, invested in Impossible Foods to accelerate the development of its plant-based meats.
In August 2012, Good Ventures LLC led a $15M Series A round of investment in Vicarious FPC, an artificial intelligence company which uses the computational principles of the brain to build software that can think and learn like a human.