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We believe technology can do more for people.

We learn from biology to build technology that is more efficient, more capable and more intuitive.

That could mean robots that behave in ways that feel familiar and natural, models that anticipate what comes next and systems that connect what they see, hear and sense.

Technology that helps people do more.

Intuition

defined by TBC

Intelligence that recognizes what matters, adapts in the moment and anticipates what comes next.

Evolution already did the R&D.

For decades, computing has taken inspiration from the brain.

We take the next step: growing real neurons, stimulating them with information and measuring how they respond and adapt to discover new ways to compute.

Not just inspired by biology. Derived from it.

Grow

Stimulate

Measure

From neurons to compute.

Real neurons show us what computing can be: efficient, adaptive and intuitive. Our roadmap is about bringing more of those advantages into technology.

Software

Neuron-derived software improves AI today.

Architecture

Neurons shape new AI architectures.

Biological compute

Neurons and silicon compute together.

We hold our work to high standards.

Scientific rigor, clear boundaries and transparency are built into how we work.

Open research

We share our methods, findings and limitations so others can examine, challenge and build on the work.
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Clear boundaries

Our current discovery work uses neural cultures, not whole brains. There is no possibility for consciousness or sentience.

Measurable results

A biological discovery matters only if it improves AI. We test against baselines and clearly distinguish proven results from work in progress.

Built by people who know the brain firsthand.

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Before they were founders, Alex and Jon were neurosurgeons and neuroscientists. Years spent working directly with the brain convinced them that biology held capabilities computing was still struggling to recreate.

They started TBC around a simple belief: to build better intelligence, we should go back to nature and learn how it already works.

Meet the team building biological computing.

We work across disciplines every day, connecting experiments in real neurons to algorithms, benchmarks and products. The work does not stop at the edge of any one field. Neither do we.

Founders

Alex Ksendzovsky MD, PhD

CEO & Co-Founder

Jon Pomeraniec MD, MBA

COO & Co-Founder

Biology

Cristina Florio, PhD

Director of Biology, Baltimore

Ex-NIH

Marisol Cortes, PhD

Biological Scientist

Ex-Johns Hopkins

Simone Chiola, PhD

Biological Scientist

Ex-Stanford

Dominique Cajanding

Biology Research Scientist

Ex-Sonoma Bio

Sasha Nikolaeva

Biology Research Associate

Ex-Turku Bioscience

Neuroscience

John Wittig, PhD

VP of Engineering

Ex-iBoss, NIH

William Barnes, PhD

VP of Technology

Ex-Max Planck Society

Steven Jerjian, PhD

Neuroscientist

Ex-Johns Hopkins, UCL Queen Square

Han de Jong, PhD

Senior Computational Neuroscientist

Ex-University California, Berkeley

Haggai Agmon, PhD

Computational Neuroscientist

Ex-Stanford

Lawson Fuller, PhD

Computational Neuroscientist

Ex-Imagia, UCSD

Michael Silvernagel, PhD

Computational Neuroscientist

Ex-Stanford

Patrick Honma, PhD

Computational Neuroscientist

Ex-Gladstone Institutes

Brian Mullen, PhD

Computational Neuroscientist

Ex-University California, Santa Cruz

AI Researchers and Engineers

Tai-peng Tian, PhD

Head of Computer Vision

Ex-Meta, Apple

Yuan Yen Tai, PhD

Staff AI Researcher

Ex-Apple, Amazon

Xudong Ma, PhD

Staff AI Researcher

Ex-Causal, Ex-Meta, Ex-Apple

Cheng-Yang Fu

Staff AI Researcher

Ex-Meta

Mansour Abtahi, PhD

Senior AI Researcher

Ex-UCSF

Filip Marić, PhD

Senior AI Researcher

Ex-Meta

Jason Ngo

AI Researcher

Ex-United Health Group

Harsha Musunuri

Senior AI Researcher

Ex-Dolby

Doyin Olaoye

AI Performance Engineer

Ex-AWS

Business Development

Katie Greenfield

VP of Finance and Operations


Ex-Culture, Solugen

Vik Chaudhary

VP of Products & Partnerships

Ex-Meta, Dropbox, Oracle, MIT

Marissa Muller

VP of Communications

Ex-Tesla

Liz Cahill

Operations Manager, EA

Ex-Maryland Neurosurgery

Sandeep Ankin

Product and Sales Engineer

Ex-Satsyil

Aleks Keser

Lead Recruiter

Ex-Plenty, Coinbase, Intuit

Janice Fong Hansen

Office Manager

Ex-Bayer

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