The company has secured a $6 million seed round co-led by Adverb Ventures and Lionheart Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and angel investors. The funding will be used for compute costs and staffing. The company is also aggregating and harmonizing open-source EEG data to train their model. The partnerships with hospitals are expected to provide additional training data. The co-founders believe that their model, which they claim is the largest EEG model ever created, could eventually surpass human capability in identifying patterns in EEG data.
Key takeaways:
- Piramidal, a startup co-founded by Dimitris Sakellariou and Kris Pahuja, is developing a foundational model for analyzing brain scan data, which could improve outcomes for patients with brain disorders and reduce workload for healthcare professionals.
- The model aims to automate the analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) data, which is currently fragmented across different machines and requires specialized knowledge to interpret.
- The first production version of the model is expected to be deployed in hospitals early next year, with four pilot programs planned to test the technology in intensive care units.
- Piramidal has raised $6 million in seed funding from investors including Adverb Ventures and Lionheart Ventures, and is aggregating open source data to train its model.