university-spinout · research-grade · brain-mapping
BioSemi
At a glance
- Legal name
- BioSemi B.V.
- Aliases
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- Type
- university-spinout
- Focus areas
- research-grade, brain-mapping
- Founded
- Defunct
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- Spinout of
- University of Amsterdam — Medical Physics department
- HQ city
- Amsterdam
- HQ country
- NL
- Employees
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- Flagship device
- biosemi-activetwo
- Product lines
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- In-house manufacturing
- Yes
- Open source
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- GitHub org
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- Website
- biosemi.com
- Blog
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- Support
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Devices
People
Founders
Robert Honsbeek
Co-Founder (Electronic Engineer)
Ton Kuiper
Co-Founder (Electronic Engineer)
Coen Metting van Rijn
Co-Founder (Physicist)
Milestones
BioSemi founded in Amsterdam as a UvA Medical Physics spinout
Founded by Robert Honsbeek, Ton Kuiper (electronic engineers), and Coen Metting van Rijn (physicist), building on Foundation Vision Research Amsterdam prototypes distributed to 40+ scientific and clinical users.
ActiveTwo system released
24-bit per-channel ADC, optical-fiber isolation, active electrodes — sets the high-end research-EEG standard.
Reputation
Iconic in cognitive neuroscience and ERP research. The 24-bit per-channel front-end and fiber-optic isolation set the high-end standard for clean, electrically isolated EEG. ActiView acquisition software is open-source LabVIEW.