Eric Bravick is a neuropharmacologist, engineer of thinking machines, and self-described “mad scientist” with a remarkable career spanning over three decades. A pioneering technologist, Eric has held diverse leadership roles as CEO, CTO, Vice President of Engineering, Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), and Managing Partner across multiple organizations and industries. His expertise lies in solving significant problems at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and Web3, combining technical ingenuity with visionary leadership.
About Eric Bravick
Currently serving as the CEO of The Lifted Initiative, Eric leads a team of researchers, engineers, and business leaders dedicated to building foundational Web3 infrastructure for AI and machine learning (ML) applications on a global scale. His career reflects a steadfast commitment to collaboration and community, emphasizing the power of collective effort to push the boundaries of what technology and humanity can achieve together. Lifted assists ideologically aligned organizations through its flagship service (The Manifest Network), advisory services, assistance in fundraising, co-marketing, tokenomic alignment (treasury swaps), assistance in technological integration, and expertise in product development.
His current work focuses on AI systems and large language model (LLM)-based projects requiring decentralized infrastructure, tools, and web services. As an advocate for self-sovereign AI, Eric champions the development of self-sovereign technologies that empower individuals and safeguard humanity’s control over its technological future. This philosophy underpins his mission to create transformative advancements that revolutionize industries while promoting autonomy and democratizing innovation globally.
Eric’s journey began in neuroscience at the University of South Florida (USF), where he engaged in a wide range of neuroscientific research. Since then, he has played an instrumental role in driving technological innovation, contributing to numerous groundbreaking advancements. Eric has co-led initiatives like the AI Web3 Accelerator, which supported projects addressing critical challenges at the intersection of AI and Web3 technologies.
Throughout his career, Eric has designed, built, and managed complex information-processing systems for numerous Global 2000 companies and hundreds of emerging startups. His hands-on approach ensures technical relevance across projects, while his advisory and management expertise guides teams toward success with an emphasis on economic efficiency. By prioritizing automation, unitized work structures, and cross-training, Eric ensures seamless operations and peak productivity.
With deep expertise in AI and machine learning, Web3 and blockchain technologies, security, and quantum computing, Eric’s work consistently balances technical precision with a forward-looking vision. His leadership is shaping the future of decentralized technologies, advancing AI models that empower communities and reshape the digital landscape.
For Eric Bravick, the future is self-governed, and he is leading the charge one innovation at a time—paving the way for groundbreaking advancements while championing collaboration, community, and the transformative potential of technology.
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The Lifted Initiative
Eric Bravick is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Lifted Initiative, an organization dedicated to individual liberty through decentralized AI technologies. We envision a user-controlled future and guide the development of various technologies designed to empower the individual. The Lifted team is composed of Web2 and Web3 experts with experience at Google, Apple, Microsoft, Slack, Facebook, Samsung, IBM, and other Big Tech companies, as well as protocol-oriented groups like Baseline Consensys, Coinbase, and DFINITY, among many others.
Lifted assists mission-aligned organizations through its flagship service (the Manifest Network), advisory services, assistance in fundraising, co-marketing, tokenomic alignment (treasury swaps), assistance in technological integration, and expertise in product development.
The Manifest Network
Eric is the founder and visionary behind the Manifest Network, a layer-zero network constructed to provide a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) complete with modern cloud services. As the web3 competitor to web2 services like Azure and AWS, Manifest aims to be the standard for web3 and decentralized AI development. It can scale to standard cloud proportions and run services like virtual machines, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL databases, and other modern cloud infrastructure standards. Developed by The Lifted Initiative, Manifest allows users to easily transition to web3 using custom decentralized tech solutions without learning a new programming language or incurring expensive resources.
FocalDAO
The Lifted Initiative and its Manifest Network are early members of FocalDAO, a leading force in cultivating the world’s top decentralized AI (DeAI) initiatives. FocalDAO serves as a premier community for promising DeAI projects, offering expertise in decentralization, fundraising, marketing, commercialization, communities, and strategic partnerships to ensure each initiative’s success. By bringing together motivated builders and contributors, FocalDAO fosters unprecedented collaboration – and, therefore, scalability – across the DeAI ecosystem.
Founded in 2024, FocalDAO is led by a core team with decades of combined experience in AI, web3, and scaling global initiatives. The DAO’s current projects focus on creating industry standards and applying decentralized AI in critical sectors like healthcare, finance, and entertainment. With its index token launching in 2025, FocalDAO is on a mission to drive broader adoption of decentralized AI technologies while supporting nearly a dozen groundbreaking projects in its first months of operation.
6079.ai
Eric Bravick and the Lifted Initiative are working with 6079, raising its profile within the decentralized AI community. The 6079 protocol verifies and rewards Independent AI standards, beginning with Gamified Proof of Inference and Independent Agent Cross-Chain Transactions. 6079 is on a mission to make Independent AI the global standard. The team facilitates the development of standards across many member projects and protocols and contributes to an open-source and decentralized protocol for verifying standards. The testnet of 6079 will launch in Q4 with a short path to the mainnet launch.
Jember AI
Eric Bravick is an investor and advisor to Jember LLC, a leader in AI Choreography, a revolutionary approach to AI enablement that simplifies and accelerates AI adoption for enterprises. Through a strategic partnership with Manifest, Jember leverages cutting-edge hardware infrastructure and cloud services to power its AI Choreography platform. This ensures unmatched reliability, scalability, and security for clients managing complex AI operations.
Jember’s platform integrates AI DataOps, AI Agent Frameworks, and AI Transparency and Compliance into a seamless, scalable solution. This comprehensive approach allows enterprises to easily incorporate proprietary data and trust their AI systems, reducing operational complexity while ensuring security and regulatory compliance. By handling the heavy lifting of AI integration and optimization, Jember empowers businesses to focus on innovation, driving growth and competitive advantage.
Chandra Station
Eric Bravick is an early advocate for Chandra Station, an infrastructure and development company specializing in the Cosmos-SDK ecosystem. Operating from a tier 4 data center, the company provides essential services such as running validator nodes, IBC channels, RPCs, and archive nodes to ensure reliable and high-performance blockchain networks. Initially partnering with Lifted as a white-label node operator, Chandra Station hosted machines for a Lifted Initiative client and has since expanded its collaboration to include development work on projects like the Alberto app and the Manifest Network blockchain.
Beyond infrastructure, Chandra Station offers a range of development services designed for blockchain projects. As the company broadens its infrastructure services to support more blockchain networks, it is also planning to construct its own data center in Q1 2025, further enhancing its capacity to meet the demands of decentralized systems and support future growth.