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Synchron takes the back road to the brain
A blood vessel, a borrowed medical procedure, and an iPad: Synchron is testing whether a less intrusive brain implant can give people with paralysis more control over everyday life.
Precision Neuroscience Wants Your Brain to Keep Its Surface Intact
A film of 1,024 electrodes sits on the cortex without piercing it. Precision is using that design to build a business in brain mapping - and a path toward computer control for people with paralysis.
Axoft
Axoft is a Cambridge, Massachusetts neurotechnology company building implantable brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) out of Fleuron, a proprietary material it claims is up to 10,000x softer than the polyimide used in conventional brain implants. By making electronics roughly as soft as brain tissue, Axoft aims to keep thousands of sensors in stable contact with single neurons for years instead of months - reducing scarring and signal loss - to diagnose and eventually treat disorders of consciousness, paralysis, and other neurological conditions. A Harvard spinout founded in 2021, it raised an oversubscribed $55M Series A in April 2026 and has run first-in-human studies in 11+ patients worldwide.