Top Neuroscience Startups in 2024

Rune Labs is a brain data company empowering the development and delivery of precision neuroscience therapeutics. Our company aims to fill the gap in software and data support for next-generation neuroscience therapeutics, and expand the benefits of precision medicine to the millions of patients with neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. Rune’s first-in-class precision brain data software *Platform* (runelabs.io/platform) integrates electrophysiology, brain imaging, and device data together with wearable data and clinical labels. The combination provides researchers, drug developers, and clinicians with the tools to guide treatment, uncover hidden disease phenotypes, and design better-targeted therapies.

StimScience, the company using personalized neuroscience to improve sleep, is the developer of the revolutionary new consumer sleep aid, Somnee. Somnee is the first-ever electronic sleep aid headband to use personalized non-invasive brain stimulation to improve the wearer’s sleep quality. In a 1,500 night home pilot study, Somnee cut the time it took beta users to fall asleep in half, and it reduced the amount of overnight tossing and turning by more than one-third. Learn more and place pre-orders at trysomnee.com.

Gabb Global's advantage is the extensive application of neuroscience perspective and methods that produce the most comfortable environment for someone learning a new language. Our neuroscience research demonstrates our reliability and validity. Our professional linguists and learning experience designers coming together help to create and unforgettable learning experience. Together, we create a flexible and efficient style of immersive learning.

Branching Minds is a rapidly growing edtech company transforming the way schools and teachers support struggling learners. Our mission is to empower all educators to effectively, efficiently and equitably support the holistic needs of their students and to create a path to academic and personal success for every learner. We aim to be the most impactful national K12 school district solution for achieving high-fidelity RTI/MTSS - consistently demonstrating our ability to save teachers planning/documenting time, improve outcomes of our students, and eliminate the racial achievement gap. Our solution leverages learning sciences, academic research, and team collaboration to streamline and personalize intervention practice so that all students can achieve success. We are a team of mission-driven educators and learning scientists, who believe in partnering with school districts to evolve both our platform and the services we provide to ensure their success.

Our product, VoxelBox uses state of the art technologies covering AI, and help clinicians understand macroscopic brain function and deliver effective treatment outcomes.VoxelBox is being developed to aid in clinical decision making by providing pre-surgical planning for neuro-oncology disorders and early diagnosis of neurological disorders like Alzeihmers. VoxelBox processes resting state functional MRI and structural MRI with a single click and reduces radiologists’ efforts.

Credible is a revolutionary digital platform leveraging AI and behavioral neuroscience to enhance human connection at work. By analyzing user data from LinkedIn profiles, CVs, and self-reported information, Credible builds comprehensive user profiles encompassing skills, goals, values, and connection styles. These profiles are utilized along with sophisticated AI user agents to facilitate meaningful connections and opportunities for collaboration, learning, and team building. Credible is the human connection layer that sits on top of LinkedIn, to surface new opportunities and improve professional outcomes for individuals, organizations, recruiters and teams. We are participating in an accelerator program (EWOR.io) with a ton of resources including angel investors, VCs, mentors and other founders. This accelerator invests in startups with a product and initial traction and we anticipate to be asking for their pre-seed investment within 4-6 months. We are targeting a move to a seed round with a $10-20 million valuation within 6-12 further months.

Neuralink is developing a fully-implanted, wireless, high-channel count brain-machine interface (BMI) with the goal of enabling people with paralysis to directly use their neural activity to operate computers and mobile devices with speed and ease. Neuralink was founded in 2016 by Elon Musk and the company is headquartered in Fremont, CA with a second location opening in Austin, TX.

Our product combines innovative hardware and a guiding mobile application that, together, help to address three main symptoms that affect women's productivity –brain fog, menstrual pain, and mood instability – in a seamless way that is easy to incorporate into one's routine and busy lifestyle.

Neoteq is an early-stage startup and Y Combinator applicant. It currently has a waiting list of founders from multiple countries (including Y Combinator alums), a customer and a new AI model soon to be launched on Product Hunt - links and details at the bottom. On a micro level - Neoteq's mission is to help startups implement psychology, brain and behavioral science in order to improve their performance and wellbeing. On a macro level - Neoteq's mission is to build an entire new field called neuroentrepreneurship (brain-based entrepreneurship). The company offers/will offer 3 things in terms of product(s): - Brain science based courses on many startup topics that will be provided by leading experts in their field, both from the neuroscience as well as from the startup ecosystem. (neoteq.us/Courses/Courses.html) - High-quality personality tests in collaboration with Principles by Ray Dalio. The tests were designed by Principles alongside leading psychologists like: Dr. Adam Grant, Dr. Brian Little and Dr. John Golden. (principlesyou.com). and - A RAG synced AI model (see the 1st image) able to simulate/predict startup scenarios based on the user's personality type, input and goals. Soon to be launched on Product Hunt between late October - early November. (producthunt.com/products/ai-startup-scenario-simulator)