About Brain Murmurs

Brain Murmurs is a software research and development company similar in concept to Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Lab - the first industrial research lab - and was set up with the specific purpose of producing constant technological innovation and improvement.

Brain Murmurs was conceived from the start as a technology commercialization powerhouse. Unlike a technology incubator, which provides resources to foster the growth of unrelated companies, this is a single creative organization dedicated to the commercialization of internally conceived technologies and intellectual property.

Our team's job is to serially turn their attention to new opportunities and create lucrative ventures from them. Technologies will be prototyped by one or two principle investigators and the fleshed out by internal development teams.

The company was founded in 2002 by Dan Pasco and Lisa Hartin and has supported itself solely through consulting and software revenues. The intervening years have been spent building a strong development team and demonstrating the ability to develop original and lucrative applications. During this time most, if not all, of the profits have been invested back into the company to pay for corporate infrastructure such as computers, servers, furniture, etc.

About the Name

People are often so focused on the job at hand that they can miss potentially great ideas that seem to be too simple or far-fetched to warrant immediate investigation or exploration. Within a short amount of time the majority of these musings are forgotten. Although not all of these ideas work out, these Brain Murmurs can sometimes be the voice of great inspiration. We try to listen to them.

This quote from Leonardo Da Vinci expresses the idea a bit more eloquently: "Among other things, I shall not scruple to discover a new method of assisting the invention; which though trifling in appearance, may yet be of considerable service in opening the mind and putting it upon the scent of new thoughts, and it is this: if you look at some old wall covered with dirt, or the odd appearance of some streaked stones, you may discover several things like landskips (sic), battles, clouds, uncommon attitude, draperies, etc. Out of this confused mass of objects the mind will be furnished with abundance of designs and subjects, perfectly new."