Neuralink Co-Founder’s New Startup Sells a Brain Computer Toolkit

The brain implant industry has boomed over the past decade as companies such as Neuralink, Precision Neuroscience and Synchron have each aimed tens of millions of dollars toward developing tiny devices that send information directly from people’s brains to computers. While these startups have made remarkable progress, other companies and researchers still rely on less sophisticated technology rooted in academic and clinical settings.

Max Hodak, one of Neuralink Corp.’s founders, is trying to narrow that gap. His company, Alameda, California-based Science Corp., has several new products designed to bring down the cost and development time for research labs and startups looking to probe the mind. Hodak’s hope is that the tools will increase the pace of brain research, resulting in therapies for some of the most crippling conditions facing humans. “Our goal is to get the brain computer interface industry to be a hundred times bigger than it is now,” he says.