Brain Products

At a glance

Legal name

Brain Products GmbHverifiedSources (2)

1. Brain Products — official sitehttps://www.brainproducts.com
2. Brain Products — Our Story (founders, milestones)https://www.brainproducts.com/about-us/our-story/

Updated: 2026-05-04

Aliases

—unknownUpdated: 2026-05-04

Type

private-startupverifiedSource

1. Brain Products — Our Story (founders, milestones)https://www.brainproducts.com/about-us/our-story/

Updated: 2026-05-04

Focus areas

research-grade, brain-mapping, data-platform, developer-toolsverifiedSources (2)

1. Brain Products — official sitehttps://www.brainproducts.com
2. Brain Products — Solutions index (product lines)https://www.brainproducts.com/solutions/

Updated: 2026-05-04

Founded

1997verifiedSource

1. Brain Products — Our Story (founders, milestones)https://www.brainproducts.com/about-us/our-story/

Updated: 2026-05-04

Defunct

—unknownUpdated: 2026-05-04

Spinout of

—unknownUpdated: 2026-05-04

HQ city

GilchingverifiedSource

1. Brain Products — Our Story (founders, milestones)https://www.brainproducts.com/about-us/our-story/

Updated: 2026-05-04

HQ country

DEverifiedSource

1. Brain Products — Our Story (founders, milestones)https://www.brainproducts.com/about-us/our-story/

Updated: 2026-05-04

Employees

—unknownSource

1. v0 said 51-200; not pinned in primary sources

Updated: 2026-05-04

Flagship device

brainproducts-actichamp-plusverifiedSource

1. Brain Products — Solutions index (product lines)https://www.brainproducts.com/solutions/

Updated: 2026-05-04

Product lines

—unknownUpdated: 2026-05-04

In-house manufacturing

YesverifiedSource

1. Brain Products — Our Story (founders, milestones)https://www.brainproducts.com/about-us/our-story/

Updated: 2026-05-04

Open source

—unknownUpdated: 2026-05-04

GitHub org

brain-productsverifiedSource

1. Brain Products — GitHub organizationhttps://github.com/brain-products

Updated: 2026-05-04

Website

brainproducts.comverifiedSource

1. Brain Products — official sitehttps://www.brainproducts.com

Updated: 2026-05-04

Blog

pressrelease.brainproducts.comverifiedSource

1. Brain Products — Press Release bloghttps://pressrelease.brainproducts.com

Updated: 2026-05-04

Support

—unknownUpdated: 2026-05-04

Devices

• non-invasiveEEG

  actiCHamp Plus

  brain-products

  168 channels—
• non-invasiveEEG

  actiCHamp

  brain-products

  160 channels—
• non-invasiveEEG

  BrainAmp

  brain-products

  256 channels—
• non-invasiveEEG

  LiveAmp

  brain-products

  64 channels—
• non-invasiveEEG

  QuickAmp

  brain-products

  72 channels—
• non-invasiveEEG

  R-Net

  brain-products

  160 channels—
• non-invasiveEEG

  V-Amp

  brain-products

  16 channels—

People

MilestonesverifiedSource

1. Brain Products — Our Story (founders, milestones)https://www.brainproducts.com/about-us/our-story/

Updated: 2026-05-04

1. 1997

   Brain Products GmbH founded in Gilching, Germany

   Founded by Alexander Svojanovsky and Henning Nordholz; first product was BrainVision Analyzer, the first Windows-based EEG/ERP analysis software.

2. 2000

   BrainVision Recorder + BrainAmp launched

   BrainAmp amplifier series and the matching BrainVision Recorder acquisition software ship.

3. 2006

   actiCAP active electrode system released

4. 2008

   BrainVision Analyzer 2 released

5. 2015

   LiveAmp wireless / mobile EEG amplifier introduced

6. 2019

   actiCHamp Plus launches

   First Brain Products amplifier to support both active and passive electrode caps.

7. 2021

   Brain Products Academy established

Reputation

The de facto standard for high-end research EEG amplifiers. The .vhdr/.vmrk/.eeg BrainVision Core Data Format pioneered by Brain Products is read natively by virtually every major EEG analysis package (MNE, EEGLAB, FieldTrip, Brainstorm).