private-startup · medical-implant · communication-aac
Neuralink
At a glance
- Legal name
- Neuralink Corp.
- Aliases
- —
- Type
- private-startup
- Focus areas
- medical-implant, communication-aac, prosthetic
- Founded
- Defunct
- —
- Spinout of
- —
- HQ city
- Fremont
- HQ country
- US
- Employees
- —
- Flagship device
- neuralink-n1
- Product lines
- 1
- In-house manufacturing
- Yes
- Open source
- No
- GitHub org
- —
- Website
- neuralink.com
- Blog
- —
- Support
- —
Devices
People
Founders
Elon Musk
Co-Founder
Max Hodak
Co-Founder, former President · departed
Benjamin Rapoport
Co-Founder · departed
Dongjin (DJ) Seo
Co-Founder, President & COO
Paul Merolla
Co-Founder · departed
Philip Sabes
Co-Founder · departed
Timothy J. Gardner
Co-Founder · departed
Tim Hanson
Co-Founder · departed
Vanessa Tolosa
Co-Founder · departed
Current leadership
Jared Birchall
CEO (of record)
Dongjin (DJ) Seo
President & COO
Elon Musk
Founder
Funding
- Stage
- series-d
- Total raised
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| Stage | Date | Amount | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| series-d | $280,000,000 | Founders Fund |
Milestones
Neuralink founded
First public unveiling — thread + sewing-machine presentation
FDA approves IDE for first human PRIME study
Per ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06429735.
First human implant — patient Noland Arbaugh
Surgery at Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix; publicly announced 2024-01-29.
Reputation
Highest-profile invasive-BCI company by media and capital, but a follower (not pioneer) on intracortical microelectrode arrays. Pioneer on the surgical robot (R1) and on flexible polymer-thread approach at scale.