Biomemory: Where Data Becomes Legacy

In a quiet but powerful way, something special happened when Erfane ArwaniDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, co-founder of Biomemory, visited a middle school as part of a startup education program. Biomemory is a company with an unusual mission: fighting the energy consumption of data centers by using DNA as a storage system. It sounds like science fiction, but it's very real—Arwani and his team have found a way to use the natural power of DNA to store digital data, inspired by how nature itself encodes information in our genes.

Arwani was welcomed by a group of curious students, around forty of them, all eager to understand what it means to be an entrepreneur and how something as tiny as DNA could hold the future of information. He shared with them the basics: DNA is a molecule that stores, transmits, and expresses data—exactly what technology tries to do today. If nature figured it out, he said, maybe we can too.

As part of the visit, Arwani gave the students a challenge: imagine what they would want to preserve in a DNA time capsule to be opened 5,000 years from now. Their answers were funny, thoughtful, and deeply human. Some talked about saving memories like videos of themselves doing judo. Others wanted to include samples of today’s air, or even a human being capable of surviving alone, in case humanity had vanished.

The experience went beyond science. It sparked something personal. One student shared how the visit gave her the confidence to pursue her dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Learning about incubators like Agoranov and the early steps of launching a startup opened her eyes to a world she hadn’t fully imagined before. The program gave her tools, yes—but also courage.

In the end, it wasn’t just about data, or DNA, or energy. It was about connection—between generations, between science and imagination, and between young minds and those already working to shape the future.

A.M.