Brain-computer interfaces and the neuro-AI convergence emerging from India
Mumbai-based Bioscan Research has raised $1 million in a seed round led by Unicorn India Ventures to scale CEREBO, a portable near-infrared spectroscopy device that detects intracranial bleeding and traumatic brain injuries non-invasively.
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IIT Madras's Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre released ANCHOR, an open-access 3D atlas of the human brainstem at cellular resolution, mapping more than 200 nuclei and fibre tracts from prenatal development to adulthood.
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From Deepinder Goyal's $54M Temple to Mave Health and Sychedelic, Indian neurotech startups raised a string of rounds in early 2026, pushing brain wearables and neuromodulation from labs toward consumers.
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Medtronic launched its adaptive deep-brain-stimulation system in India even as SCTIMST and BARC develop AnuChitra, an indigenous device aimed at cutting the cost of treatment by around 70%.
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NIMHANS launched CALM-Brain, India's first repository of clinical, imaging, genetic and behavioural data across five psychiatric disorders, the data foundation for AI-driven diagnosis and personalised treatment.
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IISc launched a 'moonshot' to build brain co-processors, implantable and wearable systems that decode neural activity, process it with AI and re-encode it as stimulation, with indigenous hardware and India-specific brain datasets.
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NeuroDX's MANAS-1, a 400-million-parameter model trained on 60,000 hours of EEG from more than 25,000 patients, is India's first 'brain language' AI, a bid to bring foundation-model scale to neurology.
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