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Meredith Perry
Meredith Perry is the co-founder and CEO of Elemind, a neurotech company building a wearable headband that reads your brainwaves in real time and nudges them with bursts of sound, marketed as sleep on demand. Before Elemind she was the inventor behind uBeam, the ultrasonic wireless-charging venture she dreamed up as a University of Pennsylvania undergrad and grew into a roughly $40 million, much-debated startup backed by Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Mark Cuban and Marissa Mayer. A trained paleobiologist and astrobiologist who once did research with NASA, Perry holds dozens of patents and now wants to build what she calls an app store for the brain.
Rajiv Mahadevan
Rajiv Mahadevan is the co-founder and CEO of Attune Neurosciences, a San Francisco neurotechnology company building what it calls the world's first wearable, non-invasive ultrasound system for deep brain therapy. A UC Berkeley molecular biologist turned Stanford MBA, he spent two decades inside biotech and precision-medicine companies - 23andMe, Novo Nordisk, and his own venture Applied Immunology, which was acquired by Precision Medicine Group - before turning his attention to the skull. Attune's headband-shaped device aims low-intensity focused ultrasound at deep brain structures with MRI-guided precision, and it is backed by venture investors, the NIH, and the U.S. Special Operations Command.