We designed a residency for the magically weird.

Long Journey VC + Edge Esmeralda are supporting builders chasing ideas that seem strange today, but could transform the world tomorrow.

Meet the 2025 Long Journey Residents  👇

Avery Krieger is building Constellation, a foundation model that learns from neural and physiological data to cure mental illness and power the next generation of brain-computer interfaces.

He will be conducting real-world tests at Edge Esmeralda.

Edge City convenes people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and society in popup villages across the globe. Apply to our upcoming popup village: https://www.edgeesmeralda.com/ 

Ayushi Sinha is building Turmerik, an AI-powered infrastructure platform to improve global clinical trial recruitment and protocol optimization.

She’s joining us at Edge Esmeralda to take it further.

Eleanor Junru Ye is building Stratium, a causal world model that transforms the firehose of global information into a living, LLM-leveraged graph of cause and effect.

The system fuses modern causal inference, probabilistic graph learning, large-scale NLP, and quantitative econ.

What if your personal AI twin explored the internet for you, and brought back opportunities and signal?

This is what multi-time founder Faheem Kajee is focused on building at Edge Esmeralda.

Gigi Gotz is rethinking fertility through data, design, and epigenetics.

Her project Upstream tracks 100+ metrics and 30+ biomarkers to help men increase fertility by 3x.

She joins the residency at Edge Esmeralda to push the frontier of epigenetic health.

Keoni Gandall is building the tools that open biotech to independent researchers, students, and startups. 

His software-defined biology lab automates wet-lab experiments at low cost.

Laura Turner is building a next-gen synthetic biology platform to reprogram flowers into health-enhancing biofactories, starting with domesticated saffron.

She is focused on unlocking a new frontier at the intersection of longevity, natural therapeutics, and bioproduction.

Matteo Vinao Carl is developing a scalable, non-invasive neural interface to detect brain structural changes using off-the-shelf EEG.

His work seeks to radically lower the cost of early detection for dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Max Heald is building Refs, a bottom-up network of self-authored identity pages that rebuild the internet around relationships. No feeds. No noise. Just signal.

At Edge Esmeralda, he’s prototyping digital belonging.

Meg McNulty is rethinking internet infrastructure for an AGI-native world.

Her company, Cosmic Labs, is building the agentic network stack to replace TCP.

Miles Segal is building a lightning-fast ASIC foundry that repurposes vintage nanofabrication gear to deliver custom digital chips in 24 hours across New York City, and within 48 hours anywhere in the U.S.

Neha Desaraju and Mackay Grant are building Squaretower Markets, a synthetic derivatives platform enabling speculation and hedging on the price of on-demand GPU compute.

Sunir Kishan Manandhar is upgrading port logistics with real autonomy, bringing AI and automation to America’s docks.

He’ll be shipping code and bold ideas at Edge Esmeralda.

Congratulations to all the Long Journey residents ✨

We can’t wait to see these magically weird ideas come to life over the next month.

Want to join Edge Esmeralda and build something extraordinary yourself? Apply below! ⬇️

Congratulations to all the Long Journey residents ✨

We can’t wait to see these magically weird ideas come to life over the next month.

Want to join Edge Esmeralda and build something extraordinary yourself? Apply below! ⬇️

https://edgecity.simplefi.tech/portal/edge-esmeralda