Neurotech Startup Bridge Neurotech Launches With $13.5M to Build Wearable Ultrasound Brain-Computer Interface
Scobleizer · x · 2026-10-07
Brain-computer interface startup Bridge Neurotech launched with $13.5 million in funding from General Catalyst, directly rivaling Sam Altman-backed Merge Labs.
- Founder Will Biederman developed the chip Neuralink licensed for its first devices during his PhD
- Unlike Neuralink, Synchron, Paradromics, and Precision Neuroscience — all of which require surgery — Bridge is building a wearable ultrasound-based BCI
- Only 100 people worldwide have received implanted BCIs in clinical trials (at least 21 with Neuralink's device); Biederman argues surgical risk makes implants a hard sell — "nobody really wants a hole in their head"
- Key challenge: bone and skin weaken electrical signals, which has plagued wearable approaches
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