BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables
The startup specializes in “non-invasive” “mind-reading” tech—a kind of neural data collection that, its CEO hopes, will have all sorts of consumer applications.
This is the largest early-stage funding in China’s brain computer interface industry.
A source close to the company says the round assigns Science a post-money valuation of $1.25 billion.
China’s brain-computer interface industry is rapidly scaling from research to commercialization, driven by strong policy support, expanding clinical trials, and growing investor interest.
“You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain,” Hodak says, “possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people.”
Neuralink has been making serious progress. Soon Sam Altman and OpenAI could be backing a challenger.