How Startups Are Creating Expanded Consciousness Across Psychedelics, Breathwork and Meditation (Greg Kubin)

Greg Kubinis an investor at Cymed Ventures focused on frontier mental health technologies, psychedelics, neurotechnology, and new models for human wellbeing. In this conversation, we explore how founders and investors are thinking about expanded consciousness across psychedelics, meditation, breathwork, dreams, prayer, sound, and light.

We also unpack where expanded consciousness is becoming a real startup category and where the hype still outruns the reality. We talk about altered states of consciousness, inner work for entrepreneurs, founder spirituality, spiritual awakening, nervous system regulation, and what it takes to build products that support genuine personal transformation rather than just delivering another stimulating experience.

Who This Episode Is For:

• Founders exploring consciousness driven startup ideas
• Investors tracking emerging human potential markets
• Entrepreneurs doing serious inner work
• Builders curious about psychedelics breathwork and meditation
• Anyone interested in business as a spiritual path

What You'll Learn:

• How Greg defines consciousness and expanded consciousness
• Why psychedelics remain the most funded category in the space
• Where meditation hardware and neurotechnology may create new value
• Why breathwork is powerful yet hard to retain as a daily practice
• How dreams prayer sound and light may become larger startup markets
• Why wisdom traditions still matter in consciousness expansion

Full episode notes: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/a-deeper-dive-on-the-consciousness

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Chapters:

(00:00) Defining consciousness and altered states

(05:56) Mental health ego and why this market matters

(10:47) Psychedelics and the rise of a new startup category

(27:15) Meditation technology and the next wave of products

(39:23) Breathwork business models and retention challenges

(50:11) Dreams lucid dreaming and subconscious healing

(59:10) Prayer apps and digital spiritual communities

(01:05:44) Sound light and immersive consciousness experiences

(01:19:28) What comes next in consciousness startups