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Aleva Neurotherapeutics

At a glance

Legal name
Aliases
Type
university-spinout
Focus areas
medical-implant, neuromodulation, therapeutic
Founded
Defunct
Spinout of
EPFL — Microsystems Laboratory (Prof. Philippe Renaud)
HQ city
Lausanne
HQ country
CH
Employees
Flagship device
aleva-directstn-acute
Product lines
1
In-house manufacturing
Yes
Open source
No
GitHub org
Website
aleva-neuro.com
Blog
Support

Devices

People

Founders

  1. Aleva Neurotherapeutics — About page (founders, EPFL spinout)https://aleva-neuro.com/about/
Updated: 2026-05-04

  • André Mercanzini

    Co-Founder, CTO

  • Philippe Renaud

    Co-Founder (EPFL Microsystems Lab) · departed

  • Claudio Pollo

    Co-Founder (clinical, Bern University Hospital) · departed

Current leadership

  1. Aleva Neurotherapeutics — About page (founders, EPFL spinout)https://aleva-neuro.com/about/
Updated: 2026-05-04

  • André Mercanzini

    CTO

Milestones

  1. Aleva Neurotherapeutics founded as an EPFL spinout in Lausanne

  2. directSTIM receives CE Mark + $8M private-equity round

  3. directSTIM receives MR-conditional approval

Reputation

EPFL-pedigree directional-DBS competitor to Boston Scientific Vercise Cartesia and Abbott Infinity. MEMS-based microfabrication is a technical differentiator vs. cylindrical leads.

Sources