Companies · Lobeworks/17

Companies building brain-computer interfaces, with the year they were founded, their technical approach, their devices and whether the frontier tracker follows them.

- Blackrock Neurotech: Blackrock Neurotech is a company in Salt Lake City, founded in 2008 on technology from the University of Utah, that makes the Utah array and the recording systems around it, the hardware on which most human intracortical brain-computer interface research of the last two decades has run. - Merge Labs: Merge Labs is a brain-computer interface research company, co-founded by Sam Altman, that came out of stealth on 15 January 2026 with a 252 million dollar seed round led by OpenAI, and that aims to read and modulate the brain with ultrasound and engineered molecules instead of implanted electrodes. - Neuralink: Neuralink is a neurotechnology company, founded in 2016 with Elon Musk among its founders, that builds a fully implanted, wireless brain-computer interface and the robot that implants it, with the stated aim of making implantation routine and eventually scaling it far beyond medical use. - NeuroPace: NeuroPace is a medical device company in Mountain View, California, founded in 1997, that makes the RNS System, the one brain stimulator approved for epilepsy that waits to detect a seizure before it stimulates, and its history is the long work of building evidence for that single device. - Paradromics: Paradromics is a neurotechnology company in Austin, Texas, founded in 2015, that builds Connexus, a fully implanted brain-computer interface designed around the largest number of single-neuron channels it can read and send out, with restoring speech as its first goal. - Precision Neuroscience: Precision Neuroscience is a neurotechnology company founded in 2021, among others by the neurosurgeon Benjamin Rapoport, a co-founder of Neuralink, that builds dense electrode films laid on the surface of the cortex without piercing it, and it holds the first regulatory clearance for a component of a next-generation br - Science Corporation: Science Corporation is a neurotechnology company in Alameda, California, founded in 2021 by Max Hodak, a co-founder of Neuralink, and its first product to reach patients is PRIMA, a chip under the retina that restores some central vision in macular degeneration. - Synchron: Synchron is a neurotechnology company, started in Australia and now based in New York, that develops the Stentrode, a brain-computer interface placed through the blood vessels instead of through the skull, and it was the first company to receive US permission to test a permanently implanted BCI.