The makers
Manufacturers
134 companies building BCI hardware.
public-company
Abbott
Abbott Park, US
2 devices in database
subsidiary
Ad-Tech Medical
Oak Creek, US
3 devices in database
university-spinout
Aleva Neurotherapeutics
Lausanne, CH
1 device in database
university-spinout
ANT Neuro
Hengelo, NL
4 devices in database
university-spinout
Apollo Neuroscience
Pittsburgh, US
1 device in database
private-startup
Arenar
NL
Dutch consumer-EEG outfit. Built the iBand+ EEG sleep / lucid-dreaming headband on Kickstarter (2016).
1 device in database
private-startup
Artinis Medical Systems
Elst, NL
3 devices in database
university-spinout
Axoft
Cambridge, US
1 device in database
private-startup
Backyard Brains
Ann Arbor, US
1 device in database
private-startup
Beacon Biosignals
Boston, US
1 device in database
private-startup
BIOPAC Systems
Goleta, US
1 device in database
university-spinout
BioSemi
Amsterdam, NL
2 devices in database
private-startup
Blackrock Neurotech
Salt Lake City, US
4 devices in database
defunct
Blueberry
Toronto, CA
Defunct (~2022) Toronto consumer EEG-glasses startup. Built Blueberry, glasses with embedded EEG + PPG sensors marketed at focus and meditation.
1 device in database
public-company
Boston Scientific
Marlborough, US
3 devices in database
private-startup
Brain Products
Gilching, DE
7 devices in database
private-startup
BrainBit
2 devices in database
private-startup
Brainbox
Cardiff, GB
1 device in database
university-spinout
BrainCo
Hangzhou, CN
3 devices in database
private-startup
BrainMaster Technologies
Bedford, US
1 device in database
private-startup
BrainScope
Bethesda, US
1 device in database
public-company
BrainsWay
Kfar Saba, IL
2 devices in database
private-startup
Cadwell
Kennewick, US
2 devices in database
private-startup
Cambridge NeuroTech
Cambridge, GB
1 device in database
private-startup
Caputron
US
1 device in database
private-startup
Cefaly
BE
1 device in database
university-spinout
Cerca Magnetics
Nottingham, GB
1 device in database
private-startup
CGX
San Diego, US
3 devices in database
private-startup
Cognixion
Santa Barbara, US
1 device in database
public-company
Compumedics
Melbourne, AU
2 devices in database
subsidiary
Cortigent
Valencia, US
1 device in database
private-startup
Cortivision
PL
1 device in database
defunct
Cyberkinetics
US
1 device in database
private-startup
DEYMED Diagnostic
CZ
1 device in database
private-startup
DIXI Medical
FR
2 devices in database
private-startup
Dreem
Paris, FR
2 devices in database
private-startup
Earable Neuroscience
US
1 device in database
private-startup
EB Neuro
Florence, IT
1 device in database
subsidiary
Electrical Geodesics
Eugene, US
2 devices in database
public-company
electroCore
US
1 device in database
private-startup
EMOTIV
San Francisco, US
9 devices in database
private-startup
eNeura
Baltimore, US
Handheld TMS for migraine. Manufactures the sTMS mini single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulator, FDA-cleared for acute and preventive migraine treatment.
1 device in database
private-startup
Entertech
CN
2 devices in database
private-startup
FieldLine
Boulder, US
1 device in database
private-startup
Fisher Wallace Laboratories
US
1 device in database
private-startup
Flow Neuroscience
Malmö, SE
1 device in database
private-startup
foc.us
GB
1 device in database
private-startup
g.tec medical engineering
Schiedlberg, AT
4 devices in database
university-spinout
Gowerlabs
London, GB
UCL spinout. Designs LUMO, a modular wearable high-density fNIRS system that scales to 100+ channels of whole-head coverage on walking subjects.
1 device in database
defunct
Halo Neuroscience
San Francisco, US
Defunct San Francisco startup that made the Halo Sport headphone-form-factor tDCS device for athletic-performance "neuropriming". Wound down in 2022; technology assets acquired by Flow Neuroscience.
1 device in database
public-company
Hitachi
Tokyo, JP
Japanese conglomerate. Through its medical imaging arm, designed the ETG-series clinical fNIRS systems that dominated Japanese fNIRS research during the 2000s–2010s.
1 device in database
university-spinout
IDUN Technologies
Zurich, CH
Swiss in-ear EEG company. Maker of the Guardian earbud — a wireless earbud-form-factor EEG device targeting clinical pharma trials, sleep research, and consumer wellness.
1 device in database
non-profit
imec
Leuven, BE
2 devices in database
university-spinout
INBRAIN Neuroelectronics
Barcelona, ES
Barcelona graphene-electrode neuroscience startup. Developing high-density cortical electrode arrays for closed-loop neurological-disease therapy and intraoperative brain mapping. First-in-human surgical use 2024.
1 device in database
private-startup
Innovative Neurological Devices
US
1 device in database
private-startup
Intan Technologies
Los Angeles, US
Los Angeles research-electrophysiology ASIC vendor. Designs the RHD2000 family of amplifier ASICs and headstages used in Open Ephys, White Matter, and many third-party recording systems.
1 device in database
private-startup
InteraXon
Toronto, CA
3 devices in database
university-spinout
Iota Biosciences
Alameda, US
UC Berkeley spinout pioneering sub-mm ultrasound-powered implantable sensors / stimulators ("neural dust"). Acquired by Astellas Pharma in 2024.
1 device in database
private-startup
ISS
Champaign, US
Champaign, IL maker of frequency-domain fNIRS / NIRS systems (Imagent, OxiplexTS) — long the only commercially-available FD-NIRS for absolute haemoglobin quantification.
1 device in database
defunct
iWinks
San Diego, US
San Diego consumer-EEG startup. Built the Aurora Dreamer, a Kickstarter-funded EEG sleep mask that detected REM and triggered lucid-dreaming cues. Company wound down ~2018.
1 device in database
private-startup
Kernel
US
2 devices in database
public-company
LivaNova
London, GB
1 device in database
private-startup
Looxid Labs
Seoul, KR
Korean VR-EEG startup. Built Looxid Link, a clip-on EEG module for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Quest. Largely defunct as a hardware product.
1 device in database
private-startup
Macrotellect
Shenzhen, CN
Shenzhen consumer-EEG OEM. Builds the BrainLink Lite (1-channel) and BrainLink Pro (3-channel) headbands on top of the NeuroSky ThinkGear chipset; widely white-labeled.
2 devices in database
private-startup
Mag&More
Munich, DE
German TMS-systems maker. Designs the PowerMAG research and clinical TMS stimulator family.
1 device in database
private-startup
Magstim
Whitland, GB
Original TMS pioneer (Whitland, Wales). Manufactures the Horizon clinical and Rapid² / Super Rapid² research TMS stimulators that power most of the foundational TMS literature.
4 devices in database
private-startup
MagVenture
Farum, DK
Danish TMS-systems maker. Designs the MagPro research / clinical stimulator family with actively-cooled Cool-B65 / B70 coils and theta-burst-capable hardware.
1 device in database
private-startup
Master & Dynamic
New York, US
1 device in database
private-startup
mBrainTrain
Belgrade, RS
Belgrade-based maker of pocket-sized wireless research-grade EEG amplifiers (Smarting line). Designed for mobile / out-of-lab studies — pairs with EasyCap textile caps and streams over Bluetooth to a laptop or tablet running the Streamer / Lab Streaming Layer (LSL) stack.
3 devices in database
public-company
Medtronic
Dublin, IE
6 devices in database
subsidiary
MEGIN
Helsinki, FI
1 device in database
defunct
Melon
San Francisco, US
Defunct San Francisco consumer-EEG startup. The Melon Headband was a single-channel EEG focus-tracker funded on Kickstarter in 2013; company wound down by 2015.
1 device in database
private-startup
Mendi
Stockholm, SE
Stockholm consumer-neurotech company that ships a $299 fNIRS headband and gamified training app for prefrontal-cortex neurofeedback. First mass-market consumer fNIRS device — a category previously gated behind $20k+ research instruments.
2 devices in database
private-startup
MicroTransponder
Austin, US
1 device in database
private-startup
Mind Media
Roermond, NL
Dutch maker of the NeXus multi-modal biofeedback amplifier line (NeXus-4, NeXus-10, NeXus-32). Sold into clinical neurofeedback, peak-performance, and psychophysiology research markets worldwide.
3 devices in database
university-spinout
MindMaze
Lausanne, CH
EPFL spinout digital-therapeutics company. Operates MindMotion GO (home stroke rehab) and MindPod (immersive movement). Combines EEG, IMU, and VR / AR.
1 device in database
private-startup
Mitsar
Saint Petersburg, RU
Saint Petersburg clinical EEG / QEEG amplifier maker. Sells the Mitsar-EEG-202 amplifier family with the WinEEG software stack.
1 device in database
private-startup
Moberg Research
Ambler, US
Pennsylvania ICU continuous-EEG / multimodal-monitoring vendor. Sells the CNS Monitor used in neurocritical-care units for seizure detection and secondary-injury surveillance.
1 device in database
university-spinout
Motif Neurotech
Houston, US
Houston-based Rice University spinout. Developing DOT, a pea-sized battery-less implantable neuromodulator for treatment-resistant depression.
1 device in database
subsidiary
Multi Channel Systems
Reutlingen, DE
Reutlingen-based microelectrode-array maker. The MEA-2100 system is the dominant in-vitro MEA platform for retinal prosthesis testing and brain organoid recording.
1 device in database
private-startup
Mybrain Technologies
Paris, FR
French consumer / B2B EEG-headphones startup. Built the Melomind 4-channel dry-electrode stress-reduction neurofeedback headphone.
1 device in database
private-startup
Natus Medical
Middleton, US
Major US neurodiagnostics company. Owns the Nicolet, Xltek, and Bio-logic heritage clinical EEG / EP / EMG brands. Public 2001-2022; taken private by ArchiMed for ~$1.2B.
2 devices in database
private-startup
Naxon
Buenos Aires, AR
Argentine consumer / educational EEG outfit. Sells the Naxon Explorer kit and cloud platform.
1 device in database
private-startup
Neelogy
FR
Privately-held French clinical EEG / EMG manufacturer; smaller European clinical neurodiagnostics vendor.
1 device in database
university-spinout
Neeuro
Singapore, SG
Singapore consumer-EEG company spun out of A*STAR. Builds the SenzeBand 2 5-channel dry-electrode headband and the Memorie cognitive-training app; sells into schools and senior-care programs across Southeast Asia.
2 devices in database
private-startup
Neurable
Boston, US
Boston-based consumer-EEG company. Built a peri-auricular dry-electrode platform that records EEG from inside the ear cushions of off-the-shelf headphones — first as the Enten (2021), then licensed to Master & Dynamic for the MW75 Neuro (2023). Spinout of the University of Michigan Direct Brain Interface lab.
1 device in database
private-startup
Neuralink
Fremont, US
1 device in database
private-startup
Neuralynx
Bozeman, US
Bozeman, MT research-electrophysiology vendor. Designs the Cheetah / Digital Lynx data acquisition systems — workhorse of hippocampal / spatial-cognition labs.
1 device in database
subsidiary
neuroConn
Ilmenau, DE
German research-grade tDCS / tACS / tRNS hardware. The DC-Stimulator Plus and MC are the European reference research TES platforms.
2 devices in database
university-spinout
Neuroelectrics
Barcelona, ES
Barcelona-based maker of the Enobio wireless EEG and the Starstim closed-loop EEG + tCS (tDCS/tACS/tRNS) systems. Pioneer of combined-modality stimulation+sensing in research and home-use clinical trials.
6 devices in database
university-spinout
Neurolutions
St. Louis, US
Washington University spinout. Sells IpsiHand, the first FDA-cleared non-invasive EEG-driven BCI for chronic stroke upper-limb rehabilitation.
1 device in database
public-company
Neuronetics
Malvern, US
1 device in database
public-company
NeuroOne Medical Technologies
Eden Prairie, US
Public US medical-device company (NASDAQ:NMTC) making thin-film cortical and depth electrode arrays. Evo Cortical Electrode is FDA-cleared for recording and stimulation.
1 device in database
public-company
NeuroPace
Mountain View, US
1 device in database
private-startup
NeuroSigma
Los Angeles, US
Maker of the Monarch eTNS System — FDA-cleared external trigeminal nerve stimulation for paediatric ADHD (2019) and CE-marked for depression and epilepsy.
1 device in database
private-startup
Neurosity
Brooklyn, US
3 devices in database
private-startup
NeuroSky
San Jose, US
4 devices in database
private-startup
Neurowear
Tokyo, JP
Tokyo design studio making EEG-driven novelty wearables on top of NeuroSky chipsets. Best known for the 2011 Necomimi animatronic-cat-ear headband.
1 device in database
private-startup
NeuroXess
Shanghai, CN
Shanghai implantable-BCI startup developing a flexible-electrode array for invasive recording. Achieved China's first-in-human flexible-electrode BCI in 2025 with Huashan Hospital.
1 device in database
university-spinout
Newronika
Milan, IT
Italian spinout developing AlphaDBS, an adaptive closed-loop deep brain stimulator using LFP sensing in the STN. CE-marked competitor to Medtronic Percept's BrainSense.
1 device in database
public-company
Nexstim
Helsinki, FI
Helsinki-based navigated TMS pioneer. Sells NBS for pre-surgical brain mapping and SmartFocus for depression therapy.
1 device in database
private-startup
NIRx Medical Technologies
Berlin, DE
Berlin- and Glen Head, NY-based maker of NIRSport2 (wireless mobile fNIRS) and NIRScout (tethered high-channel research fNIRS). One of the founding commercial fNIRS vendors.
4 devices in database
private-startup
Olimex
Plovdiv, BG
Bulgarian open-hardware maker. Sells the EEG-SMT 2-channel sub-€100 EEG amplifier with open schematics — popular in education and DIY BCI projects.
1 device in database
public-company
Onward Medical
Eindhoven, NL
Public Dutch / Swiss medical-device company. Builds ARC-EX (epidural) and ARC-IM (brain-spine-interface) systems pairing cortical recording with spinal stimulation for paralysis recovery.
1 device in database
open-source-collective
Open Ephys
Cambridge, US
Open-hardware electrophysiology collective. Distributes the Acquisition Board (up to 256 channels) and the GUI software that runs much of the Allen Institute's Neuropixels work.
1 device in database
private-startup
OpenBCI
Brooklyn, US
4 devices in database
private-startup
Paradromics
Austin, US
1 device in database
open-source-collective
PiEEG
GB
Open-hardware EEG project. The PiEEG board is an 8-channel EEG/EMG/EKG shield for the Raspberry Pi with fully open hardware design files, firmware, and Python acquisition stack.
1 device in database
private-startup
PlatoScience
Copenhagen, DK
Danish consumer tDCS company. Sells the PlatoWork five-electrode headband paired with phone-app "modes" for focus / creativity / learning. No medical claims.
1 device in database
private-startup
Plexon
Dallas, US
Dallas research-electrophysiology vendor. Designs the OmniPlex / HelloPlex neural recording systems and optogenetics hardware for NHP and rodent labs.
1 device in database
university-spinout
PLUX Wireless Biosignals
Lisbon, PT
Lisbon biosignal hardware maker. Sells the modular biosignalsplux research line and the BITalino (r)evolution education boards covering EEG / EMG / ECG / EDA. Open hardware on BITalino, sealed firmware on biosignalsplux.
2 devices in database
private-startup
Precision Neuroscience
New York, US
1 device in database
private-startup
QuSpin
Louisville, US
Boulder-based atomic-magnetometer manufacturer. Its QZFM zero-field magnetometer is the dominant OPM sensor inside wearable MEG systems built by Cerca, Sandia, UCL, and most other research OPM-MEG groups.
1 device in database
defunct
Retina Implant AG
Reutlingen, DE
Defunct German subretinal-microchip company (2003–2019). The Alpha-IMS / Alpha-AMS were the first European-CE-marked subretinal photodiode-array implants for retinitis pigmentosa.
1 device in database
private-startup
Ripple Neuro
Salt Lake City, US
Salt Lake City research-electrophysiology vendor. Designs the Grapevine recording / stimulation platform and Trellis acquisition software.
1 device in database
private-startup
Science Corporation
Alameda, US
Max Hodak's post-Neuralink venture. Develops the Science Eye optogenetic retinal prosthesis and operates the PRIMA photovoltaic subretinal implant program (acquired from Pixium Vision in 2024).
1 device in database
defunct
Second Sight Medical Products
Sylmar, US
1 device in database
defunct
SenseLabs
San Francisco, US
Defunct (~2018) consumer-EEG startup. Built the Versus 5-channel dry-electrode neurofeedback / cognitive-training headset aimed at peak-performance athletes.
1 device in database
public-company
Shimadzu
Kyoto, JP
Kyoto-based scientific instrumentation conglomerate (TYO:7701). Among many product lines, manufactures the LIGHTNIRS portable continuous-wave fNIRS system.
1 device in database
private-startup
Sleep Shepherd
Boulder, US
Boulder consumer EEG sleep headband. Combines EEG sensing with adaptive binaural-beat audio over bone-conduction speakers.
1 device in database
university-spinout
Somnee
Berkeley, US
UC Berkeley spinout consumer sleep-tech startup. Builds the Somnee headband: EEG + closed-loop tACS for sleep-onset entrainment.
1 device in database
private-startup
Sooma Medical
Helsinki, FI
Finnish home-use tDCS company. CE-marked for at-home treatment of major depressive disorder under clinician supervision via tele-health.
1 device in database
private-startup
Soterix Medical
Woodbridge, US
NYC maker of research-grade tDCS, HD-tDCS, and multi-channel tACS systems for academic neuroscience labs and clinical TES trials.
2 devices in database
private-startup
StairMed
Shanghai, CN
Shanghai implantable-BCI startup. Wireless invasive BCI; first-in-human 2024 with tetraplegic-patient cursor control. China's leading Neuralink competitor alongside NeuroXess.
1 device in database
private-startup
Subsense
US
US endovascular-BCI startup developing a vascular-route brain interface. Designed to be implanted via catheter through the jugular vein — no craniotomy required.
1 device in database
private-startup
Synchron
US
1 device in database
private-startup
TMSi
Oldenzaal, NL
Dutch maker of the SAGA modular research EEG / EMG amplifier and the Mobita / Porti wearable amplifiers.
2 devices in database
private-startup
Tucker-Davis Technologies
Alachua, US
Long-running research-electrophysiology vendor. Designs the RZ-series real-time multiprocessors and the Synapse software environment — fixtures in NHP and rodent labs.
1 device in database
private-startup
Wearable Sensing
San Diego, US
San Diego maker of the DSI dry-electrode research EEG line (DSI-7, DSI-24, DSI-VR300) and the CGX Quick-20r / Quick-30r headsets following the 2021 Cognionics acquisition.
3 devices in database
private-startup
White Matter
Seattle, US
Seattle research-electrophysiology vendor. Designs the eCube modular recording system on top of Intan headstages — up to 1024 channels at 25 kHz with synchronised video.
1 device in database
private-startup
Wisear
Paris, FR
Paris-based startup developing in-ear neural / ocular signal sensing for hands-free, voice-free control. Licenses its AI Neural Interface platform to consumer-electronics and industrial OEMs.
1 device in database
university-spinout
YBrain
Daejeon, KR
Korean KAIST spinout. Makes the MINDD STIM home-use tDCS headband, MFDS-cleared for major depressive disorder.
1 device in database
subsidiary
Yokogawa MEG
Tokyo, JP
Japanese cryogenic-MEG vendor in collaboration with the Kanazawa Institute of Technology. MEG Vision systems are the dominant SQUID-MEG platform in Japanese university hospitals.
1 device in database
private-startup
Zeto
Santa Clara, US
Wireless 19-channel dry-electrode clinical EEG headset with cloud read-and-report workflow. FDA-cleared; sold to outpatient neurology and tele-EEG providers.
1 device in database