No implant. No gel. Just sensors that read your focus - and tell you when your brain needs a break.
NEURABLE, INC. — Boston, Massachusetts.
The brand mark of a company that spent a decade
teaching AI to hear a signal buried in noise.
Brain-computer interfaces usually arrive wrapped in surgery, sci-fi, or both. Neurable's version arrives as a pair of headphones. Inside the earcups of its MW75 Neuro sit twelve soft-fabric EEG sensors. They read the faint electrical activity of the brain, and the company's AI turns that mess of signal into a single, legible number: a Focus Score, updated roughly every second.
The Boston company was co-founded by neuroscientist Dr. Ramses Alcaide and Adam Molnar, with roots in University of Michigan research dating to 2011. Alcaide's PhD work focused on EEG biomarkers for assessing cognitive function in children with cerebral palsy - technology built for the people who needed it most, later pointed at a more ordinary problem: attention.
Neurable's first public moment was theatrical. At SIGGRAPH 2017, it demoed "Awakening," a brain-controlled VR game that let people move virtual objects with their minds - no controller. It was widely called the world's first mind-controlled VR game.
But demos don't ship. In 2020, Neurable pivoted from AR/VR input toward something more practical: compact BCI that could live inside everyday consumer hardware. In 2021, its Enten reference headphones hit their full Indiegogo goal in under 30 minutes - proof that people wanted this. In 2024, the MW75 Neuro, built with premium audio brand Master & Dynamic, made it real.
The genuinely hard part was never the sensor. It was the noise - movement, bad contact, the electrical chaos of a body in motion drowning out the signal. Neurable's decade of work went into signal processing, so the flashy part could exist at all.
"Subjects who acted on the app's suggestions to rest were 20% more productive and felt 50% happier by the end of the day."
Neurable embeds EEG sensors and its own AI into everyday products. The system captures brain data and translates it into real-time measures of focus, mental fatigue and cognitive recovery - no implant, no conductive gel.
Professionals fighting burnout, consumers curious about brain health, esports players chasing "the zone," plus clinical partners like the Mayo Clinic and defense programs studying focus and fatigue.
Steps and heart rate are easy to track. Focus is invisible - until you're already burned out. Neurable makes attention measurable, then nudges you to rest before fatigue quietly wrecks the day.
Unlike implant-based BCIs (Neuralink, Synchron) or dedicated headbands (Muse, Emotiv), Neurable hides the interface inside premium consumer hardware you already want - starting with headphones.
Illustrative representation of Neurable's signal pipeline.
Four steps, running continuously:
1. Capture. Soft sensors in the earcups pick up the brain's electrical activity across twelve channels.
2. Clean. Neurable's algorithms strip out noise from movement and imperfect contact - the reason most consumer EEG never worked.
3. Interpret. Machine-learning models estimate your focus level from what's left.
4. Act. When focus drops, the app prompts a "Brain Break." Neurable says it tested this feature with the Mayo Clinic, to rave reviews.
Premium noise-cancelling headphones (with Master & Dynamic) that add 12 EEG channels and Neurable's AI - delivering a real-time Focus Score, fatigue tracking and Brain Break prompts. The LT is a lighter, refined model.
Companion mobile app reporting live focus, mental fatigue and cognitive recovery, with focus history and personalized brain-break recommendations.
A first-of-its-kind gaming headset prototype with HP's HyperX, integrating compact BCI to show players their focus and cognitive state in real time. Honored across CES 2026 "best of" lists.
The reference product that proved demand - brain-sensing everyday headphones that fully crowdfunded on Indiegogo in under 30 minutes.
The proprietary AI and hardware IP that raises EEG signal-to-noise enough to fit inside consumer form factors - licensed to hardware partners.
Series A led by Spectrum Moonshot Fund, with Pace Ventures. 2024 round from Ultratech Capital Partners, TRAC, Pace Ventures and Metaplanet. Total funding to date ~$65M.
The Series A, closed in December 2025, wasn't for another demo. It was to scale deployment - to get the compact BCI platform into more products and partners.
The wager is explicit in Neurable's own vision: a future where brain-computer interfaces are "as ubiquitous as smartphones." That's a big bet, and an open question. But the company is building the unglamorous plumbing - signal processing, licensable hardware, clinical validation - rather than promising the moon.
It also earned ~$5M in U.S. Department of Defense contracts to study soldier focus and performance, a signal that the technology travels beyond consumer wellness.
University of Michigan research yields the AI approach that becomes Neurable's core technology.
Founded to commercialize non-invasive BCIs, spinning out of the university's Innovation Partnerships accelerator.
"Awakening" debuts at SIGGRAPH; Zell Lurie Founders Fund invests.
Focus shifts from VR input to compact BCI for everyday hardware.
The reference headphones prove consumer appetite for wearable BCI.
EEG headphones with Master & Dynamic ship; Neurable raises $13M.
A refined model and a Series A led by Spectrum Moonshot Fund.
The brain-tracking gaming headset earns ~16 awards and recognitions.
Neurable builds non-invasive brain-computer interfaces that live inside everyday products. Its AI reads EEG brain signals from soft sensors in devices like headphones and turns them into real-time measures of focus, mental fatigue and cognitive recovery.
No. Neurable's technology is entirely non-invasive - the EEG sensors sit in the earcups of headphones. There's no implant, and unlike many lab BCIs, no conductive gel is required.
A pair of premium noise-cancelling headphones, built with Master & Dynamic, that adds 12 EEG channels and Neurable's AI to give you a real-time Focus Score, track mental fatigue, and suggest Brain Breaks when you need to rest.
A $35M Series A in December 2025 (led by Spectrum Moonshot Fund), following a $13M round in 2024 and ~$5M in Department of Defense contracts - roughly $65M in total funding to date.
Co-founded by CEO Dr. Ramses Alcaide and COO Adam Molnar, with roots in University of Michigan research. It incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.