Psychedelics startup Gilgamesh has no interest in psilocybin or LSD

It’s developing new compounds and attracting investors

Marc Gunther
The Psychedelic Renaissance
8 min readMar 9

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Many startup companies developing psychedelic therapies work with classic mind-altering substances such as psilocybin, mescaline and LSD. Jonathan Sporn, the founder and chief executive of Gilgamesh Pharmaceutical, has no interest in any of them.

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Marc Gunther
The Psychedelic Renaissance

Reporting on psychedelics, tobacco, philanthropy, animal welfare, etc. Ex-Fortune. Words in The Guardian, NYTimes, WPost, Vox. Baseball fan. Runner.