Synchron vs Cradle
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Synchron pioneers the world's first endovascular BCI (Stentrode) enabling paralysis patients to control devices with thoughts; raised $200M Series D (Nov 2025) totaling $345M, Apple BCI-HID integration achieved.
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Synchron is a neurotechnology company developing brain-computer interface (BCI) technology using a minimally invasive endovascular surgical approach. Unlike conventional BCIs that require open-brain surgery to implant electrode arrays directly on the cortex, Synchron's Stentrode device is delivered through a catheter inserted via the jugular vein and positioned in a blood vessel adjacent to the motor cortex — requiring no open neurosurgery and dramatically reducing patient risk and recovery time. The Stentrode detects neural signals associated with intended movement and translates them into digital commands, enabling individuals with severe paralysis — from ALS, stroke, or spinal cord injury — to control computers, smartphones, and other devices using thought alone.
AI protein design platform combining language models with lab automation; active learning cycles for enzyme, antibody, and therapeutic protein engineering optimization.
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Cradle is a protein design platform using AI to help biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies engineer better proteins — enzymes, antibodies, and therapeutic proteins — with improved stability, activity, and manufacturability. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Amsterdam with teams in San Francisco, Cradle raised approximately $24 million and targets biopharmaceutical, agricultural, and industrial biotechnology companies that need to engineer proteins with specific functional properties.
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