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Our story

Innovating an Industry

Since 2012, we have been developing a solution that avoids the need for open brain surgery by using a minimally-invasive procedure.

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Quick facts about us

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The device, the stentrode™, is 8mm in diameter and made from a flexible alloy called nitinol. It is inserted into Superior Sagittal Sinus in the brain via the jugular vein.

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Initial grant funding was provided to a lab in the University of Melbourne by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Department of Defense (DoD).

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In 2020, FDA awarded the stentrode™ the Breakthrough Device Designation. In 2021, Synchron became the first company to receive an FDA IDE to conduct trials of a permanently implantable BCI.

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Series B funding was led by Khosla Ventures, with total capital raised now of $70M, including support from the U.S. and Australian governments.

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Synchron is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, and has an office in Melbourne, Australia.

Leadership Team

We’re a global team of scientists, innovators, and future-thinkers.

Tom Oxley CEO

Tom Oxley

CEO

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Martin Dieck

Chairman of the Board

Nick Opie CTO

Nick Opie

Chief Innovation Officer

Employee Mocco

J Mocco

Chief Medical Officer

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Kurt Haggstrom

Chief Commercial Officer

Amos Meltzer CLO

Amos Meltzer

Chief Legal Officer

Connie Rey

Connie Rey

VP, Clinical Affairs

Riki Banerjee VP RD

Riki Banerjee

VP, R&D

Gary Castro VP Finance

Gary Castro

VP, Finance

Peter Yoo Senior Director of Neuroscience

Peter Yoo

Senior Director, Neuroscience

Gil Rind Director of Advanced Technologies

Gil Rind

Senior Director, Advanced Tech

Rina

Rina Bhagat

Senior Director, Quality & Regulatory

Darragh Mc Dermott Director of Hardware

Darragh McDermott

Director, Hardware

Chloe Brown Director of Marketing

Chloe Brown

Director, Strategic Marketing

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Kimberly Ha

Communications Lead

Awards

Partners

Board

Advisors

Bloomberg 50

Bloomberg

2022

The Best Inventions of 2021

Time Magazine

2021

Next Big Things in Tech

Fast Company

2021

Most Disruptive Innovator Award

Newsweek

2021

Innovation Award

Society of Vascular and Neurointerventional Neurology

2021

BCI Award

BCI Award Foundation

2021

Innovator of the Year Finalist

Gentlemen’s Quarterly

2019

Advance Global Overall Australian of the Year

Advance Awards

2019

UNSW Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research

Australian Museum

2019

Innovator of the Year Finalist

Congress of Neurological Surgeons

2018

Khosla Ventures

Neuro Technology Investors

Metis Innovative

Martin Dieck, Chairman

Managing Member, Neuro Technology Investors

Tom Oxley

CEO, Synchron

Nick Opie

CTO, Synchron

Rahul P Sharma, MD

Director Cath Lab, Interventional Cardiology, Stanford

Alex Morgan, MD, PhD

Partner, Khosla Ventures

Ari Nowacek, MD, PhD

Principal, ARCH Venture Partners

Eddie Chang, MD

Chair, Dept of Neurosurgery UCSF

Tim Denison, PhD

Royal Academy Chair, Oxford University

Jordi Parramon, PhD

President, Google Verily

Earl Slee

VP, Medtronic (retired)

Victor Rodrigues

VP, Cochlear

Marc Slutzky, MD, PhD

Professor, Northwestern University

Josh Duyan

Investor, Artisan Partners

Max Hodak

CEO, Science (previously President at Neuralink)

Brian Martin

Founder/CEO Radical Catheter Technologies & Serial Entrepreneur

Check out our published research to learn more about our work.