We are beyond excited to back @aryangovil and @SynaptrixAI Synaptrix is our concentrated bet on non invasive BCI through a truly one of a kind founding team Aryan spent four years researching Alzheimer’s at NYU, then withdrew his medical school applications to build Synaptrix. He wanted to help far more people than he could seeing patients one at a time. He and his cofounder Eric started tinkering with open source hardware in their apartment. Fast forward to today and synaptrix is live with wheelchair patients today. They’re building a headset that lets people control a wheelchair or computer through imagined movement. There is no surgery or screwing into your skull. They’ve already demonstrated cursor control without eye tracking. For someone with paralysis, steering a wheelchair without blowing into a tube or using a computer independently is a massive unlock in terms of freedom and mobility. Removing the need for brain surgery gives this a path to reaching far more people around the world. The hard part is that electrical signals from the brain get weakened and blurred as they pass through the skull, then mixed with muscle activity and outside interference. Synaptrix combines precise sensing with proprietary neural data and foundation models to turn those noisy signals into useful commands. That’s why we’re backing the decoding layer, not just a headset. As sensing hardware gets cheaper, we think the value goes to the data and models that can reliably understand movement intentions across different people and environments. More real world use can generate better training data, improve the models and extend the same technology from wheelchairs to other devices we control with our hands. We are very proud to back Synaptrix, Aryan, Eric and Team! Kudos to @DrewAHenderson and @august_wstein on their work here