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an eclectic neurotech newsletter & brain-computer interface startup landscapes by a tech investor @PeterZhegin

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2 years
If you are not Elon, raising for a BCI startup is hard. It's hard to push it into an average VC's thesis. It's hard for an investor to DD an opportunity. To help founders, I've built a list of 60+ investors who have already made 2+ BCI investments each.
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4 months
Ping me if you are at #SfN24
@PeterZhegin
Peter Zhegin
4 months
I’m in magnificent Chicago to watch the next Bears game with my VC buddies. Kidding. I’m here for the #IEEE Brain Discovery & Neurotechnology Workshop and #SFN2024 Please ping me to chat about the future of brain-machine interfaces and neuroscience. #bci #neuro #neurotech #SfN24 #sfn
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7 months
Let me know if you are at EMBC and want to talk about neuro frontier, platforms, products, components, commercialisation, funding/vc
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Peter Zhegin
7 months
I'm in Orlando at The Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) #EMBC2024 @IEEEembs If you are there, or know neuro folks who are there, please let me know and share. We at what to know what happens at the neuro frontier and help wherever we can to push it forward. #bci #neurotech #forntiertech #deeptech #vc
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7 months
RT @PeterZhegin: I'm in Orlando at The Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) #EMBC
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8 months
Ping me if you are at Labweek in Healdsburg
@PeterZhegin
Peter Zhegin
8 months
I landed in SF yesterday to attend a week-long LabEeek field-building initiative, a part of a conference series by @protocollabs, supported by @foresightinst, @JoinEdgeCity, and others. #neuro #bci is a focus, if you are building/investing in neurotech - ping me here or in DM
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9 months
What neuro newsletters do you read? What feeds do you follow?
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Peter Zhegin
9 months
I'm working on something big and just catching up on my #neurotech/#bci newsletter. It will be published soon! In the meantime, below is a list of cool neuro newsletters by @naveen101, @RobertMurcko, @holland_neuro, and @NeuroTechX (Sophie and the team) + X feeds by @neurosock and @seeingwithsound Are there any newsletter/X feeds I miss? X - X -
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11 months
January neurotech newsletter is out! Amazing news from @synchroninc, Precision Neuroscience, @motifneuro, and others, on both - research/tech and business sides
@PeterZhegin
Peter Zhegin
11 months
Here's what I included in my January neurotech newsletter subscribe: read: Non-Invasive 1) temporal interference: @Val_Beliaeva, @Valerio_Zerbi, @RafaPolania, @m_markicevic, @RazanskyLab, @ViktorJirsa, @AcerboEmma, @ViktorJirsa, @GrossRobertE, @eglo_physchem; 2) electromyography: @BryanSchlink, @ianbaumgart; 3)diffuse correlation spectroscopy. Invasive/Minimally Invasive 1) endovascular fUS: @davidgrayden, @Bionics_Sejohn; µECoG/SEEG: @damiavnc, @EduardMustbe, @xaviernavarro8, @VilaplanaUB, @naolmu, @SMarti_Sa, @chiaraspadar, @vickypuig, @ACPaulk, @Biologish, @jpezaris, @JihwanJamesLee, @RMarkRichardson, @raslanneuro, @SBenHaimMD, @kate_gelman, @VanessaMTolosa, @PeterKonrad12, @cmermel 1/2
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11 months
RT @PeterZhegin: Here's what I included in my January neurotech newsletter subscribe: read:
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11 months
RT @PeterZhegin: Some #neurotech lunchtime reading - I’ve collected nuggets of wisdom from Jörn Rickert, Andres Lozano, @WRMuirhead, @Ioana
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1 year
September - December 2023 issue of the newsletter is out 🎆
@PeterZhegin
Peter Zhegin
1 year
Finally cleared my @_astrocyte newsletter backlog, and the September - December 2023 issue is here. I'll return to the monthly format in February. minimally/non-invasive 1) #ultrasound shines in this issue of the newsletter, papers by epidural BCI - @WhitneySGriggs, @SumnerLN, @DeffieuxThomas, @VasileiosChris2, @BrunoOsmanski, @GeelingC, @mikhailshapiro, @TanterM; sonobiopsy - @ChenUltrasound, @leuthardt, @aadel_chaudhuri, @Rshnzr, @RupenDesaiMD, @siakafadera_; neuromodulation - @sitiny0, @tristanadamwhi1, @EFouragnan, @ellymmartin, @LennartVerhagen, @cjstagg, and Yüksel et al.; stroke recovery - @MaYuTrue, @Jocelyne_Bloch, @gcourtine; 2) papers on A) temporal interference by @inesviolante, @Ketevanity, @AcerboEmma, @ProfHampshire, @eboyden3, @nir_grossman and B) in-ear sensors by @JSempionatto, @gopa_bandhu, @srishty_dua, @JWangnano. #bci #neurotech #vc #startups #deeptech #VentureCapital
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1 year
Catching up on the ultrasound 🔊 - looks so exciting.
@PeterZhegin
Peter Zhegin
1 year
Ultrasound is getting traction, and some exciting work was widely covered, e.g. by @emilylmullin on @ForestNeurotech @SumnerLN here What is less covered is the platform potential of ultrasound as a modality and an opportunity for startups associated with it. Various types of functional ultrasound, therapeutic/interventional ultrasound, are used/considered for increasing the permeability of BBB (for drug delivery and biopsy), imaging, and stimulation. Someone who unifies all these types of US will be in a powerful position to become a leading neurotech/BCI platform.
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1 year
Finally moved from Substack 2 ghost & migrated the newsletter 2 the personal domain. So with a delay the issue is out. August was hot for amazing neuro developments, so I had to renew my personal @Nature subscription 😅. Please let me knot if I missed anything and if ghost is OK
@PeterZhegin
Peter Zhegin
1 year
A delayed BCI/Neurotech newsletter is here. I moved from Substack to ghost, so the design has slightly changed. Among other things this issue covers: * high-performance neuroprostheses @WillettNeuro, @FanChaofei, @shenoystanford, @JaimieHenderson, @neuroleigh, and @SeanMetzger5, @KayloLittlejohn, @jessierliu and a great review by Ramsey & Crone; * non-invasive: ultrasound, tES/@EkhtiariHamed, TMS/@boeslab, @esolomon, @DrCoreyKeller, nano-magnets/@dgregurec; * invasive: flexible implants/@MatteoCarandini, bioelectronics assembly in the brain; *data science: speech from ECoG/@ju_berezutskaya, music from fMRI/@TimoDenk, images from EEG; *other themes: translating new modalities into practice/@Khosravan2Sanaz, @shansiddiqi, @RolstonJohn, @foxmdphd; memory boosting/@DanRizzutoPhD, @KahanaMichael; *business: Neuralink, Universal Brain raised capital; a story of Second Sight vision implant as a business by @meharris #bci #neuroscience #venturecapital #deeptech
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1 year
Ping me if you are there and want to chat
@PeterZhegin
Peter Zhegin
1 year
I'm attending the Royal Society Neural Interfaces Summit 2023 on Wed and Thur. Who is going to be there? Would love to talk about crazy/impossible ideas, tech, startups #bci #neurotech @royalsociety
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1 year
2/2 Superconductors for brain imaging (@BakhromTJK @dinkazavr) DBS+AI @HarithAkram Neurosurgery @JessHamzelou Fundraising news from @N1MTC and Slowave
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1 year
RT @PeterZhegin: When I read similar stories, I see only one solution - software and hardware open-sourcing. Can't imagine neurotech/BCI ge…
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1 year
Beyond my comprehension. Surgeons are angels. 🙏
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2 years
I've also added investments' names, and tagged invasive/non-invasive. Please share with #neurotech #BCI founders.
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2 years
@chrisdc77 A sales guy in my coworking space: hold my beer. Then unplugs headphones so everyone in the room could hear a person on another end of the call asking how to use Calendly app
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2 years
@SumnerLN You are welcome @SumnerLN, loved the original approach!
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