Investor notes from the fields of LabWeek at Edge Esmeralda 2024: neurotech frontier Notes from LabWeek and adventures in the SF area: SOTA BCIs, brain emulation, organoids, labs, communities, funders, and regulation
Neurotech monthly. January 2024 Temporal interference, endovascular fUS, transparent electrodes, new implantation approach, organoids, transformers and RNNs. Does Silicon Valley rule neurotech? Onera, NeuroBell, Motif Neurotech, and others raised capital
Investor notes from the fields of the Neural Interfaces Summit 2023: medtech and consumer Notes from a prime conference covering recent progress in invasive and non-invasive neurotech & BCIs and how it could be accelerated
Neurotech monthly. September - December 2023 Ultrasound for epidural BCI, biopsy, and stimulation. Temporal interference and in-ear EEG. Neuropixels for speech sound encoding and protocols for using them. Foundation model for EEG. Precision Neuroscience buys a factory, Arctop, Carthera, Sonera, Prophetic, and others raise funding
Neurotech monthly. August 2023 High-performance speech neuroprosthesis, speech, image, & music reconstruction from ECoG, EEG, & fMRI, in situ organic bioelectronics assembly, Neuralink's fresh funding, a story of a visual implants pioneer
Neurotech monthly. July 2023 In-ear neurotech and Apple, MEG+DBS, DBS+AI, data from a publicly-traded neurotech company, a brain surgery on a fetus
Brain-computer interfaces funding frontier: seventy active investors and their bets (2023) A review of 65+ investors who made at least two investments in neurotech and brain-computer interfaces
Neurotech monthly. June 2023 Transparent skull prosthetic and other frontier imaging tech, foundation models for image and video reconstruction, two neurotech market maps, a rare neurotech M&A, & EEG startups raising capital
Neurotech monthly. July 2021 BCI materials (graphene, hydrogel), hybrid stimulation ultrasound/optical and genetical, ML/DL and EEG. $$$ into invasive BCIs, CES, data platform
Neurotech monthly. June 2021 Progress in quantum tech & MEG, pipelines for EEG & fMRI, TMS startups raise capital, insights from a crowdfunding prospectus