Deepinder Goyal launches $25M self-funded research initiative

Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal has launched a $25 million fund to expand his science venture, Continue Research, which seeks to back researchers and seed early-stage science startups exploring fundamental questions in biology.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Goyal said the fund is entirely self-financed and aims to support scientists “who dare to ask simpler questions than anyone else.”

“Today, we are expanding Continue Research to include a $25 million fund (entirely personally backed) to support researchers across the world who believe biology might be far simpler than we've made it,” he wrote.

Founded two years ago, Continue Research describes itself as a research team and seed fund focused on understanding the “upstream mechanisms in biology.” The initiative operates outside the traditional startup model, positioning itself instead as a long-term scientific effort to “extend healthy human function” and push humanity toward what Goyal calls a “Post-Darwin era.”

“We believe biology could be far simpler than we've made it, if only we took a systems approach to the whole picture rather than studying it pixel by pixel,” the project’s website states.

Goyal said Continue Research has been collaborating with scientists to study the underlying mechanisms of human aging—a process he suggests may hold overlooked insights. “Along with a team of initially skeptical researchers, we've been investigating a penny-drop insight about human ageing… something that’s been hiding in plain sight for eternity,” he wrote.

He added that the team is nearing the end of its research on a hypothesis that could “fundamentally change our understanding of biology and ageing,” with further updates expected in the coming weeks.

Calling the initiative a “multi-decadal journey,” Goyal said his goal is to serve as a “small catalyst in humanity's journey of conscious evolution.”

Goyal, whose estimated net worth stands at around $2 billion according to Forbes, has increasingly diversified beyond Zomato’s food-delivery and quick-commerce empire into ventures spanning health science, longevity, and aerospace.