Neurotech Notables #50: March 1-15, 2026
Spring Bloom, Funding Boom
Happy Monday Readers,
Neurotechnology’s march continues boundlessly despite growing tumult around the world. Be it a refuge for capital, cognition, optimism, or deeper human impulses in an uncertain era, the field is taking on new significance across market segments and investment timelines, year over year and month over month. Let’s dive in to notable activity from the first half of March:
Over $400m in new funding, with large series C rounds to Science Corp and Cognito, as well as deals in sleep, implanted pain, prosthetics, BCI, and EEG.
A new FDA clearance and new study results in TMS, other published data from clinical studies in implanted sacral nerve stim, non-invasive VNS, and digital therapeutics, plus new agency guidance on weight loss treatment.
Paradromics’ first-in-human BCI implant. Real world studies of Kneu’s Parkinson’s wearable. Patient preferences for Setpoint’s arthritis impantable. New EEG applications in ADHD and sleep.
“And More” - A neurotech OG rebrands. Solid Reports. News from inside China’s BCI race. Organoids in mini-computers & data centers. SimFly, Brainfry. And in one handwavey acquisition, one ring to rule them all…
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Funding
Science raises $230M Series C to Advance Brain-Computer Interface Technology at a $1.5B valuation (Business Wire)
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Cognito Therapeutics Announces Oversubscribed $105m Series C Financing to Advance Spectris™ in Alzheimer’s Disease (BusinessWire)
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Eight Sleep Raises $50M at $1.5B Valuation To Expand Into ‘Predictive, AI-Driven Health’ (Crunchbase News)
“Tether Investments led the “strategic” investment in the New York-based startup, which has now raised more than $250 million in total funding.”
ANUEVO Secures $22M Series C Funding to Strengthen ExaStim Regulatory Readiness and Global Operating Scale (ANUEVO)
Gestala secures CN¥150 million ($21 million USD) Angel Round, the Largest Angel Round in China’s Brain-Computer Interface Sector (Linkedin)
Egra raises $5.5M to build EEG foundation models (LinkedIn)
Blue Arbor Technologies raises $5 million from Ottobock, announces first-in-human implant of its RESTORE External Sensing Unit (Medical Design and Outsourcing)
Nubrain raises $565K to make thought a native input to AI (Linkedin)
Breakout Ventures announces their $114 Breakout Ventures Fund III (Linkedin)
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Commercial
Microtransponder announces corporate name change to Mobia Medical (Globe Newswire)
OURA Acquires Doublepoint to Expand AI-Driven Interaction Capabilities (Oura Ring | Bloomberg)
Natus expands availability to expert-level review of EEG with global launch of autoSCORE AI analysis tool (PR Newswire)
Regulatory
Soterix Medical Announces Clearance of SPRY Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Therapy for the treatment of Major Depression (PR Newswire)
Spark Biomedical Launches Pivotal Phase II LUNA Trial for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding (Yahoo Finance)
Neuspera Medical Announces 12-Month Pivotal Trial Results for the Company’s Integrated Sacral Neuromodulation System for Urinary Urge Incontinence (PR Newswire)
Click Therapeutics announces that the FDA has published De Novo Summary for CT-132 (Linkedin)
FDA grants breakthrough device designation to ReVision Implant visual cortex prosthesis (Med-Tech Insights)
FDA Push for 10-Hour Fake Brain Surgery Trial Raises Ethical Concerns (Bloomberg)
Medical Devices with Indications Associated with Weight Loss - Premarket Considerations (FDA)
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Industry
Paradromics completes its first human implant (MSN)
Setpoint: Patient Preferences for Treatments of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Discrete Choice Experiment Evaluating Preference for Novel Neuroimmune Modulation Devices (Journal of Patient Experience)
Radial Announces Publication of Landmark Study of Accelerated Deep TMS for Depression (PR Newswire)
Kneu Health Validates Precision Neurology Platform for Cedars-Sinai Clinical Deployment (PR Newswire)
Fly: Embodiment of whole brain emulation (X)
Firefly Announces Discovery of New Brain Wave Biomarkers For Differential Diagnosis of ADHD (Yahoo)
Q&A: Probing electrical signals to understand Alzheimer’s disease (Brain Resilience)
Human Brain Cells Run New Data Centers in Singapore, Melbourne (Bloomberg)
China could see widespread use of brain-computer tech in 3-5 years, expert says (Reuters)
Myelin-Z: PrivateBoost: Privacy-Preserving Federated Gradient Boosting for Cross-Device Medical Data (MedRxiv)
Q&A with David Sussillo (Neuron)
“My advice is don’t try to hide where you came from or pretend to be someone you’re not, but don’t let your background become your entire identity.”
Landmark Data Validate BrainWay’s SWIFT Deep TMS, Beginning a New Era in Depression Treatment (Brainsway)
Syntropic Medical completes Phase IIa LUX study of HAVEN, an investigational, non-invasive light-based approach for depression (Syntropic Medical)
Mirus Medical Device Sector - Market Research Report - (Merger)
3 lessons learned from developing a novel neurotechnology device (Medical Design and Outsourcing)
Invasive BMI Symposium at Osaka University (Linkedin | Med.Osaka)
Toward accessible, real-time brain decoding: Introducing ENIGMA (Alljoined)
Three Perspectives on Personalizing TMS Targets (The Frontier Psychiatrists)
📺Neurotech.TV
The Future of Brain-Computer Interfaces (Youtube)
Altoida at the Intersection | Episode 1 (Youtube)
Kevin Sheth: Innovation Toward a Healthier Brain (Yale Insights)
Dream Engineering, the Proton Radius Puzzle, and an ALS Breakthrough (Youtube)
Society
AI Use at Work is Causing “Brain Fry,” Researchers Find, Especially Among High Performers (Futurism)
‘We’ve Dug Ourselves Into This Hole’: What It Takes for Autism Providers to Succeed in a Challenging Market (Behavioral Health Business)
What It’s Like to Have a Brain Implant for 5 Years (Wired)
“You Read My Mind”: Neural Data and the New Wave of Biometric Privacy Protections (JDSUPRA)
Research
Advancing Brain Stimulation to First-Line Psychiatric Therapy: Wearable Disposable Electrotherapy (Psychiatry Online)
Restoring brain-to-text communication in a person with dystharia from pontine stroke using an intracortical brain-computer interface (mdRxiv)
Listening to a consonant chord progression during live face-to-face gaze enhances neural activity in social systems (JNeuroSci)
Form Factor meets function: anatomy-dependent electrode-skin coupling and signal content in consumer eyewear EEG systems (Linkedin | IopScience)
Transcranial focused ultrasound induces source localizable cortical activation in resting state humans when applied concurrently with transcranial electric stimulation (Nature)
New stimulation method builds on focused ultrasound research (Carnegie Mellon University Engineering)
Accelerated TMS with the H1-coil for depression: A multisite, randomized non-inferiortity trial (Science Direct)
Scientists make a pocket-sized AI brain with help from monkey neurons (NPR)
Transcutaneous Auricular Neurostimulation Modulates Pain Perception in Survivors of Stroke With Chronic Upper-Extremity Pain: A Randomized, Sham-Controlled Pilot Study (ScienceDirect)
Patient-reported outcomes following accelerated vs. standard TMS with the H1 coil for major depression: A multisite randomized trial (Linkedin)
Yale study challenges notion that aging means decline, finds many older adults improve over time (Eurekalert)
A Review of Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Disease: Comprehensive Theory and Evidence for Mechanisms of Action (Wiley)
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