A Nagoya neurologist discovered he was better at moving research into the world than producing it at the bench. Eight years later, his 11-person company is using ordinary brain scans to tackle an expensive diagnostic bottleneck.
The Tokyo startup turned a costly creator ritual into a one-minute phone trick. Now it has $30 million in cumulative backing, an anime studio and the harder job of proving that 200,000 curious sign-ups can become a lasting global economy.