# MJ Antonini

> MJ Antonini is the co-founder and CEO of NeuroBionics, an MIT spinout building hair-thin, flexible bioelectronic fibers that thread through blood vessels to reach deep neural structures - delivering deep brain stimulation without opening the skull. A Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology graduate who trained in both medicine and engineering, he turned a decade of fiber research from Polina Anikeeva's MIT lab into a venture-backed company that raised an oversubscribed $10M seed round to push toward first-in-human trials.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at NeuroBionics
- **Organizations:** NeuroBionics, MIT (former postdoctoral researcher), Greentown Labs, MIT delta V
- **Education:** PhD, Medical Engineering & Medical Physics, Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Medical training (HST track), Harvard Medical School, Postdoctoral researcher, Anikeeva Bioelectronics Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads NeuroBionics, an MIT spinout pioneering endovascular neuromodulation, Raised an oversubscribed $10M seed round (Dolby Family Ventures, Future Ventures/Steve Jurvetson, Vanedge Capital, LionHeart Ventures, Gaingels, Opus 44), Holds three patents from his time at MIT

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Begins Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology doctoral program, combining medical school at Harvard with engineering at MIT
- **2021** — Completes PhD in Medical Engineering & Medical Physics; continues as postdoc in Polina Anikeeva's MIT Bioelectronics Lab
- **2021** — Meets Nicolette (Nicki) Driscoll as a fellow postdoc in the Anikeeva lab
- **2023** — Co-founds NeuroBionics with Nicki Driscoll and Prof. Polina Anikeeva (spring), spinning out a decade of MIT fiber research
- **2024** — Goes full-time as CEO in January as the company moves into preclinical development
- **2025** — NeuroBionics announces oversubscribed seed round (first close led by Dolby Family Ventures)
- **2025** — Second close led by Future Ventures (Steve Jurvetson) brings the seed round to $10M; signs carbon nanotube fiber offtake deal with DexMat

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads NeuroBionics, an MIT spinout pioneering endovascular neuromodulation
- Raised an oversubscribed $10M seed round (Dolby Family Ventures, Future Ventures/Steve Jurvetson, Vanedge Capital, LionHeart Ventures, Gaingels, Opus 44)
- Holds three patents from his time at MIT
- Earned dual doctoral training across Harvard Medical School and MIT through the HST program
- Co-developed multifunctional, fiber-based neural interfaces capable of recording and stimulating electrical, chemical, and optical signals

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — TechCrunch profiles NeuroBionics' plan to spool hair-thin fibers into patients' brains through blood vessels
- **2025-01** — NeuroBionics secures oversubscribed seed round to advance endovascular neuromodulation
- **2025** — Second close led by Future Ventures brings the seed round to $10M; DexMat offtake agreement for Galvorn carbon nanotube fiber

## Links

- Website: https://neurobionics.io
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mjantonini

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