# Meredith Perry

> Meredith Perry is the co-founder and CEO of Elemind, a neurotech company building a wearable headband that reads your brainwaves in real time and nudges them with bursts of sound, marketed as sleep on demand. Before Elemind she was the inventor behind uBeam, the ultrasonic wireless-charging venture she dreamed up as a University of Pennsylvania undergrad and grew into a roughly $40 million, much-debated startup backed by Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Mark Cuban and Marissa Mayer. A trained paleobiologist and astrobiologist who once did research with NASA, Perry holds dozens of patents and now wants to build what she calls an app store for the brain.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Elemind Technologies
- **Organizations:** Elemind Technologies, Inc., uBeam (SonicEnergy), J. Craig Venter Institute (board director), NASA Ames Research Center (former research), NASA Astrobiology Institute (former research)
- **From:** Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Studied paleobiology and astrobiology, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Invented uBeam, an ultrasonic wireless power transmission system, Raised approximately $40 million for uBeam from top-tier investors, Co-founded Elemind and launched a wearable phase-locked acoustic neurostimulation headband

## Career timeline

- **pre-2011** — Conducted astrobiology research with NASA Ames Research Center and the NASA Astrobiology Institute; co-authored two papers with Christopher McKay
- **2011** — Won the University of Pennsylvania PennVention competition for an ultrasonic wireless power system she named uBeam; demonstrated it at the All Things Digital conference and founded uBeam
- **2011-2018** — Built uBeam, raising roughly $40 million from Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Mark Cuban, Marissa Mayer and others
- **2018** — Stepped down as CEO of uBeam as the company pivoted toward B2B licensing
- **2019** — Announced a new neurotechnology venture via tweet
- **2020** — Co-founded Elemind with Ed Boyden, David Wang, Nir Grossman and Heather Read
- **2024** — Elemind emerged from stealth on February 6, 2024 with $12M seed funding and launched its sleep headband

## Achievements

- Invented uBeam, an ultrasonic wireless power transmission system
- Raised approximately $40 million for uBeam from top-tier investors
- Co-founded Elemind and launched a wearable phase-locked acoustic neurostimulation headband
- Awarded 25 patents with additional patents pending
- Forbes 30 Under 30
- Fortune 40 Under 40 Mobilizers
- Vanity Fair The New Establishment
- Fast Company Most Creative People (2014)
- Elle Genius Award (2012)
- Board director at the J. Craig Venter Institute

## Latest updates

- **2024-02** — Elemind emerged from stealth with $12M seed funding led by backers including Village Global, LDV Partners and the MIT Investment Fund.
- **2024-06** — Publicly launched the Elemind wearable headband for 'sleep on-demand.'
- **2024-09** — MIT News detailed Elemind's clinical results: about 30 minutes of stimulation reduced sleep onset time by 10-15 minutes in adults with sleep-onset insomnia.

## Links

- Website: https://elemindtech.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithellenperry/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/meredithperry
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meredithperry/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meredith.perry/

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Last updated: 2026-06-22