university-spinout · medical-implant · neuromodulation
Aleva Neurotherapeutics
At a glance
- Legal name
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- Aliases
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- Type
- university-spinout
- Focus areas
- medical-implant, neuromodulation, therapeutic
- Founded
- Defunct
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- Spinout of
- EPFL — Microsystems Laboratory (Prof. Philippe Renaud)
- HQ city
- Lausanne
- HQ country
- CH
- Employees
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- Flagship device
- aleva-directstn-acute
- Product lines
- 1
- In-house manufacturing
- Yes
- Open source
- No
- GitHub org
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- Website
- aleva-neuro.com
- Blog
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- Support
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Devices
People
Founders
André Mercanzini
Co-Founder, CTO
Philippe Renaud
Co-Founder (EPFL Microsystems Lab) · departed
Claudio Pollo
Co-Founder (clinical, Bern University Hospital) · departed
Current leadership
André Mercanzini
CTO
Milestones
Aleva Neurotherapeutics founded as an EPFL spinout in Lausanne
directSTIM receives CE Mark + $8M private-equity round
directSTIM receives MR-conditional approval
Reputation
EPFL-pedigree directional-DBS competitor to Boston Scientific Vercise Cartesia and Abbott Infinity. MEMS-based microfabrication is a technical differentiator vs. cylindrical leads.