private-startup · consumer-meditation · consumer-sleep
InteraXon
At a glance
- Legal name
- Interaxon Inc.
- Aliases
- Muse
- Type
- private-startup
- Focus areas
- consumer-meditation, consumer-sleep, consumer-wellness
- Founded
- Defunct
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- Spinout of
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- HQ city
- Toronto
- HQ country
- CA
- Employees
- —
- Flagship device
- —
- Product lines
- 3
- In-house manufacturing
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- Open source
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- GitHub org
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- Website
- choosemuse.com
- Blog
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- Support
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Devices
People
Founders
Ariel Garten
Co-Founder
Trevor Coleman
Co-Founder · departed
Chris Aimone
Co-Founder, CTO · departed
Current leadership
Jean-Michel Fournier
CEO
Ariel Garten
Chief Evangelist Officer / Chair of the Board
Derek Luke
Advisor (former CEO 2015–2023)
Funding
- Stage
- series-c
- Total raised
- $37,100,000
| Stage | Date | Amount | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| series-a | $6,000,000 | Horizons Ventures | |
| series-b | $10,000,000 | OMERS Ventures | |
| series-b-1 | $11,600,000 | Trend Forward Capital, Export Development Canada, OMERS Ventures | |
| series-c | $9,500,000 | BDC Capital |
Milestones
InteraXon founded in Toronto
Founded by Ariel Garten, Trevor Coleman, and Chris Aimone.
Original Muse headband ships
First widely-available consumer EEG: a 4-channel headband paired with a meditation companion app.
Muse 2 released
Adds PPG (heart rate), 3-axis accelerometer, and 3-axis gyroscope to the original Muse's EEG-only design.
Reputation
Leading consumer-meditation EEG brand with strong consumer reviews. Long-running tension with the EEG research community over Muse SDK access; community projects (Mind Monitor, Muse-LSL) fill that gap.
Sources
- choosemuse.com — official Muse / Interaxon site
- FCC ID 2ABZI-MU03 — Interaxon Inc. Muse 2 filing
- Wikipedia — Muse (headband)
- TechCrunch — InteraXon raises $6M Series A
- BetaKit — InteraXon raises $10M Series B
- Business Wire — Interaxon $11.6M Series B-1
- Osler — Interaxon Series C representative work
- BetaKit — InteraXon swaps CEOs; Ariel Garten to Board Chair
- Athletech News — Muse names Jean-Michel Fournier CEO
- BetaKit — Interaxon launches Muse 2