The startup has raised $6 million in a seed funding round co-led by Adverb Ventures and Lionheart Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and angel investors. The funds will be used for compute costs and staffing. The company is also aggregating and harmonizing open-source EEG data to train its model. The partnerships with hospitals are expected to provide additional training data. The co-founders believe their model, which they claim is the largest EEG model ever, will eventually be able to detect patterns smaller than the human eye can consistently identify.
Key takeaways:
- Piramidal, a startup founded by Dimitris Sakellariou and Kris Pahuja, is developing a foundational model for analyzing brain scan data from electroencephalography (EEG) technology.
- The software aims to consistently identify worrisome patterns in EEG data, which could improve outcomes for patients with brain disorders and reduce the workload for healthcare professionals.
- The company has built the foundational model and is now working on scaling it to billions of parameters. The first production version of the model is expected to be deployed in hospitals early next year.
- Piramidal has raised a $6 million seed round co-led by Adverb Ventures and Lionheart Ventures, with participation by Y Combinator and angel investors. The funds will be used for compute costs and staffing.