Axial — Observations #10

Axial
6 min readMay 15, 2020

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Observations #10

A set of ideas and observations from a week’s worth of work analyzing businesses and technologies.

Business models for brain science

There are a wide range of companies developing products to measure brain activity non-invasively:

CTRL-Labs — https://www.ctrl-labs.com/

Neurable — https://www.neurable.com/

Neurosity — https://neurosity.co/

Kernel — https://www.kernel.co/

BrainCo — https://www.brainco.tech/

There is a plausible pathway to make a medical device company, but is there a pathway to build a business model focused on selling data derived from measuring brain activity to patients. Who would the customers be? Research labs — that’s not a big enough market? Advertisers — that’s probably crossing some major ethical lines? If the set of customers can be figured out then the business model for measuring the brain would be a pretty…

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