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The Doctor Who Sewed Her Way Out of a Sleepless Night
A family doctor could not fall back asleep after 3 a.m. patient calls. Regular headphones hurt, earbuds fell out, so she built a pillow-friendly pair - and turned a kitchen-table fix into a global sleep-tech brand.
Elemind Technologies
Elemind Technologies is a Cambridge, Massachusetts neurotech company spun out of MIT that makes a wearable EEG headband which reads your brainwaves and plays phase-locked acoustic pulses through bone conduction to help you fall asleep faster - without drugs. Founded by a group of leading neuroscientists and led by CEO Meredith Perry, the company launched its $399 'sleep on demand' headband in 2024 after raising $12 million in seed funding. Its broader ambition is an 'app store for the brain': one wearable running different neuromodulation protocols for sleep, tremor, memory and beyond.
Sleep Reset
Sleep Reset is a San Francisco digital sleep clinic that brings the methods of an in-person sleep center to a phone. Built around Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), it pairs each user with a human sleep coach and a personalized, multi-week program instead of pills. Founded by serial entrepreneur Yunha Kim after her own years-long battle with insomnia and sleep apnea, the program was developed with researchers from Stanford, Yale and other institutions, and is used by thousands of people seeking a no-pill path to better sleep.
Kong Inc.
Kong Inc. builds the connectivity fabric for APIs, microservices, and now AI traffic. Its open-source gateway sits in front of billions of requests at companies like Cargill, SkyScanner, GE, and Sky. In 2024 it raised a $175M Series E at a $2B valuation, sharpened its pitch as 'the AI connectivity company,' and shipped an AI Gateway that brokers calls to LLMs the same way Kong has long brokered calls to REST APIs.