Neurotech Notables #58: July 1-15, 2026
Biocompute Tetris. 1st Commercial BCI Implant. NYBCI Discount. All the EEG news.
Hi Readers,
Looking for some fresh neurotech headlines to pass the time until the World Cup Finals? Here’s what happened so far in July:
Gestala raised $62m in an “Angel+” round for their ultrasound BCI. This is the issue’s biggest funding news, but the second biggest Chinese BCI news, behind Neuracle’s completion of the world’s first commercial BCI implant.
Hemispheric emerged from stealth with $52m for an EEG-based assessment platform that will start with PTSD and also maybe invent a new brain scan. Speaking of EEG: I wrote about Universal Brain’s 510k clearance and frontier psychiatry ambitions in Forbes. Also, Cumulus and InteraXon (Muse) partner on CNS trials.
I also wrote about a new game of Tetris that you can play against a neuron-wired biocomputer. Much more on this landscape coming soon. If you’re a company, investor, researcher, or expert in biocomputing, please hit reply and let me know what you’re working on.
Other commercial news: BIOTRONIK acquired Soin’s SCS IP. ClearOne merges with Cortigent in the latest entry in Vivani’s vision BCI garage sale. Partnership news from Amprion & Modality.AI, VizAI & Cortechs.ai. Theranica posts coverage milestone, and Paradromics and Neurosoft among those announcing new high profile leadership.
Blood tests for Alzheimer’s got the buzz this week, but new clinical data from Cognito and Linus Health are what will bring dementia care closer to reality (IMHO.) Plus new studies from Spark Biomedical & Mobia.
Commentary on psychiatric SDOH, Ohio’s Brain Capital movement, terminal lucidity. Fresh research in sonogenetics, DBS, temporal interference, early detection, bioabsorable interfaces, an Aliens-themed neurotech Halloween costume idea, and more.
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PL Neuro: Prime Intellect raised a $130M Series A to build the Open Superintelligence Stack to make frontier AI infrastructure accessible to every company.
Resonant Link Medical: What if the hardest part of your device wasn’t yours to solve? RLM’s wireless power and data platform — already in 50+ implantable devices — lets your team focus on what actually sets you apart.
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BrainMind: BrainMind’s Asilomar Reports are live! (BrainMind)
Funding
Gestala announces the completion of a RMB 420 million ($62 million) Series Angel+ financing round (Linkedin)
Hemispheric raises $52m for brain scan platform founded by Inventor of Apple’s FaceID (Wired)
“They will submit their first product, which will be used to study PTSD, to the FDA for approval early next year….A patient wears a lightweight EEG headset that measures electrical activity in the brain for around 15 minutes while interacting with an app on a tablet. …The team is also developing its own brain scanners to obtain information that the company believes can provide more useful data for its models than traditional EEGs.”
Cork’s NeuroBell secures €5m in new funding for US launch (Irish Examiner | Linkedin)
Neuronostics Raises £3M to Advance Digital Biomarker Platform (Neuronostics)
Fluent raises $2m for Telepathic device set to remove communication barrier for people with impaired speech (University of Melbourne)
How Fluent BCI is building the brain’s third hemisphere, an AI-enabled device for the voiceless (Nebius)
USC researcher Karolina Charaziak awarded $3.3 million NIH grant to study the inner ear (Linkedin)
Commercial
China completes world’s first commercial brain-computer interface implant (South China Morning Post)
BIOTRONIK Neuro acquires Soin Neuroscience’s SCS IP portfolio (Medical Device Network)
ClearOne Announces Entry into Merger Agreement with Cortigent, Inc., a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Vivani Medical (Business Wire)
Cumulus Neuroscience, Muse add at-home sleep EEG to CNS trial platform (MobiHealthNews)
Nexstim Receives Order for Ten NBS 6 Systems from Distributor (Nexstim)
Amprion and Modality.AI Break New Ground in Multimodal Assessment for Neurodegenerative Disease (Business Wire)
Viz.ai Expands into Neurodegenerative Disease with Cortechs.ai Collaboration (BusinessWire)
Vermon launches Vermon Group, accelerating its growth and expanding its offerings (Mutlivu)
Theranica Announces Landmark Coverage Milestone as Nerivio® Exceeds Half of the U.S. Insured Population (PR Newswire)
Paradromics Appoints William J. Marks, Jr., M.D., MS-HCM, as Chief Clinical Officer (Paradromics)
Neurosoft Bioelectronics Names Sam Hosovsky Vice President of NeuroAI (Neurosoft)
Nervonik Expands Leadership Team with Addition of Industry Veterans (Linkedin)
O’Shaughnessy Ventures welcomes Alex S. Araki as newest Fellow (Linkedin)
Regulatory
Universal Brain Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Rapid Brain-Function Measurement Platform for Psychiatry (Business Wire)
Can EEG ever stand in for fMRI in TMS? Psychiatry Lacks Biomarkers. Can this EEG Ballcap Get a Base Hit? (Forbes)
Cochlear introduces the new Osia® 3 Sound Processor, an FDA cleared bone conduction system (PR Newswire)
Newronika Receives CE Mark for αDBS®, Advancing Its Mission to Make Adaptive Therapy the Standard of Care (PR Newswire)
Neuspera Integrated Sacral Neuromodulation System (iSNM) to Receive Same Medicare Payment as Legacy Implantable SNM Devices Under Proposed 2027 CMS Rule (PR Newswire)
The American Medical Association has approved two new CPT® Category III Codes (1100T and 1101T) specifically designed for transcutaneous spinal stimulation (TSS) (Linkedin)
Translating NAM Innovation into Regulatory Practice (Linkedin | Critical Path Institute)
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Dragonfly Capital: Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Mental Health Newsletter (Linkedin)
The State of Frontier Neuroscience: This is the century of the brain. (PsyMed)
Industry
Cognito Therapeutics Presents Exploratory Biomarker Data at AAIC 2026 Supporting Coordinated Modulation of Lipid Transport and Myelination Pathways (Business Wire)
Linus Health AAIC Studies Advance Alzheimer’s Care: Earlier Detection, More Confident Diagnosis, and Patient-Centered Measurement (PR Newswire)
Next wave of BCI firms builds on pioneers to tackle challenges (BioWorld)
Safety Reporting for Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation: A Proposed Solution (FusFoundation)
LATAM’s Clinical Research Reforms Move From Policy to Practice (Linkedin)
West Palm Beach VA Healthcare System Expands Mental Health Treatment Options with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (Hospital News)
Research Spotlight: A New Standard to Better Align Implantable Brain Devices with Users’ Needs (Mass General Brigham)
Spark Biomedical and Feinstein Institutes Publish First-in-Human Study Demonstrating Non-Invasive tAN® Technology Enhances Platelet Function (Biospace)
The first half of 2026 has been a record-setting six months for focused ultrasound investment (Linkedin)
Optohive enters the research market (Startup Ticker)
Mobia Medical Announces Publication of Two-Year Data from VNS-REHAB Trial Demonstrating Durable and Continued Stroke Recovery with Vivistim® Paired VNS™ Therapy (Mobia)
Neurotech.TV
Demystifying the Regulatory Landscape with Matt Myers, PhD (Curing with Sound)
Giving Hope To Those That Feel Hopeless - ShiraTronics’ Pioneering Approach to Migraine (Resonant Link Medical)
Society
Social Determinants of Health in Psychiatric Disorders: Exciting Opportunities for Biopsychosocial Research and Clinical Care (American Journal of Psychiatry)
The Ohio Brain Capital Alliance is thrilled to announce the publication of our initial white paper: Building Brain Capital: Ohio’s Engine for Human Flourishing and Sustained Economic Development (Linkedin)
The Strange Phenomenon of ‘Terminal Lucidity’ (The New York Times)
I Tried to Hack My Brain Waves to Improve My Sleep (Wirecutter)
HHS presses ahead with effort to curb antidepressant use (Stat News)
Ethical Considerations Toward Harmonizing Human and Machine Agency in Embodied Neurotechnologies (Springer)
Call for Manuscripts: Establishing Reporting Standards for Emerging Neurotechnology Research (Frontiers)
Israel Ministry of Defense calls for neurotech researchers 👀(LinkedIn)
Research
UI professor’s research looks to individualize treatment of brain-spine pathway in stroke survivors (IOWA Now)
Neurophysiological effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation combined with multidisciplinary rehabilitation in Parkinson’s disease (Frontiers)
Deciphering the Link Between Neural Activity and Blood Flow in the Brain (Simons Foundation)
$500k in grants for UI professor’s research to individualize treatment of brain-spine pathway in stroke survivors (UIowa)
Electric fields help guide neural activity, even from moment to moment (The Picower Institute)
Enhancement of sleep slow wave activity using transcranial electrical stimulation with temporal interference: an interim analysis of the STRENGTHEN study (Nature)
Classification of neurodevelopmental disorders and typical development using deep learning and a portable patch-type electroencephalography device (Science Direct)
Recalibration of implantable brain–computer interfaces to enable long-term independent use–a systematic review (Journal of Neural Engineering)
Skin-attached bioadhesive patch enabling ultrasound deep brain stimulation and real-time electrophysiological monitoring for REM sleep enhancement (Nature)
How Indian scientists are mapping the brain’s last frontier (BBC)
Low-dimensional and optimised representations of high-level information in the expert brain (Nature | Linkedin)
Toward a transcriptomic framework for ultrasound neuromodulation: A perspective on gene expression and regional brain sensitivity (MIT Press Direct)
Brain2voice 2.0: High-performance voice synthesis brain-computer interface (Biorix)
Flexible and bioresorbable neural interfaces: self-powered biodegradable technologies for neuromonitoring and modulation (Frontiers)
Scalable networks of multimodal haptic arrays for plantar sensory substitution (PNAS | Linkedin)
Multifocal Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation to Enhance Cognition in Mild Cognitive Impairment (Jama Network)
Neurobiological subtypes in alcohol use disorder and their phenotypic and clinical profiles (Molecular Psychiatry)
Passive digital health technologies for Alzheimer’s disease screening and diagnosis: a systematic review (Nature)
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