university-spinout · consumer-wellness · consumer-sleep
Apollo Neuroscience
At a glance
- Legal name
- Apollo Neuroscience, Inc.
- Aliases
- Apollo Neuro
- Type
- university-spinout
- Focus areas
- consumer-wellness, consumer-sleep, consumer-focus
- Founded
- Defunct
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- Spinout of
- University of Pittsburgh
- HQ city
- Pittsburgh
- HQ country
- US
- Employees
- —
- Flagship device
- apollo-neuro
- Product lines
- 1
- In-house manufacturing
- —
- Open source
- No
- GitHub org
- —
- Website
- apolloneuro.com
- Blog
- apolloneuro.com
- Support
- —
Devices
People
Founders
Kathryn Fantauzzi
Co-Founder, CEO
David Rabin
Co-Founder, Chief Medical Officer
Current leadership
Kathryn Fantauzzi
CEO
David Rabin
Chief Medical Officer
Milestones
Apollo technology research at University of Pittsburgh
Kathryn Fantauzzi joins the Pitt research team to formalize the Apollo touch-therapy work emerging from Dr. David Rabin's lab.
Apollo Neuroscience, Inc. incorporated
Spun out of the University of Pittsburgh
Apollo Neuroscience formally spun out and began productizing the Apollo wearable.
Reputation
Positions itself as a wellness wearable rather than a BCI; markets vibration as 'touch therapy' for the autonomic nervous system. Founders are clinicians/researchers (Pitt psychiatry) but most third-party reviews flag the strength of evidence as preliminary.