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Paul Le Floch and the case for starting soft
He arrived at Harvard to study materials, then found himself building a company. Paul Le Floch’s route to Axoft runs through a new laboratory, a nearly $1 million early raise, and a belief that useful electronics begin with the right chemistry.
Paul Le Floch
Paul Le Floch is the co-founder and CEO of Axoft, a Cambridge neurotechnology company building brain implants out of a material so soft it behaves like brain tissue. A Harvard-trained materials scientist and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, he bet that the way to read the brain better was not to borrow chips from the semiconductor industry but to invent a new material from scratch. The result, Fleuron, is up to thousands of times softer than conventional probes yet can carry over 1,000 sensors. Axoft has now implanted its device in 11 patients and raised a $55M Series A to push toward FDA trials.