Cognixion is making the world more accessible.
Location: United States, California, Santa Barbara
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $13M
Founded date: 2013
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Volta Circ... | voltacircl... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 17.11.2021 | Seed | $12M | - |
| 07.02.2018 | Seed | $1M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.12.2021 | Amazon com : Meet Amazon employees making Alexa more accessible | Amazon is celebrating International Day of Persons with Disabilities with stories about inclusion and building Alexa for everyone. Promoting the rights and well-being of people with disabilities globally is the foundation of the United Nati... |
| 22.11.2021 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; November 21, 2021 | How Microsoft can transform healthcare delivery; Trusted has raised $94M; Aptihealth landed $50 Sanofi makes $270M bet that a startup’s AI tech can boost its cancer drug R&D. Sanofi wants to see how digital technologies can improve its ... |
| 17.11.2021 | Cognixion Raises $12M in Seed Funding | Cognixion ONE Cognixion, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based neural interface startup, raised $12m in seed funding. Prime Movers Lab led the round with co-investors Northwell Health, Amazon Alexa Fund and Volta Circle. The company intends to use ... |
| 17.11.2021 | Cognixion Connects With $12M For Brain-Computer Interface | Santa Barbara-based Cognixion, a startup which says it is developing a non-invasive, wireless brain-computer interface with augmented reality display--aimed at helping those with communications and physical disabilities--has raised $12M in ... |
| 16.11.2021 | Casper turns painful even for some of its earliest startup investors | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Even if a startup takes a cut to its valuation, it’s completely possible that investors who took ... |
| 16.11.2021 | Cognixion raises $12M to build its brain-monitoring headset for people with disabilities | Cognixion, a startup designing an intuitive brain-monitoring headset and interface for people with physical disabilities, has raised a $12M A round to pursue its accessibility ambitions. Armed with this funding, it should be able to complet... |
| 04.05.2021 | Cognixion’s brain-monitoring headset enables fluid communication for people with severe disabilities | Of the many frustrations of having a severe motor impairment, the difficulty of communicating must surely be among the worst. The tech world has not offered much succor to those affected by things like locked-in syndrome, ALS and severe str... |
| 09.06.2020 | Eye Tracking for AAC as Accessible as Oxygen: Cognixion® Expands Access to Its Eye Tracking Technology Through Nationwide Oxygen Supplier | Santa Barbara, California-based neurotech company, Cognixion, announced the release of the Expression Eye™ speech generating device in conjunction with Lincare AAC. Combining the power of advanced facial recognition and eye tracking technol... |
| 07.02.2018 | Cognixion Secures $1M in Seed Funding | Cognixion (formerly Smartstones, Inc.), a Toronto, Ontario, Canada- and Santa Barbara, CA-based neurotech A.I. company, raised $1M in seed funding. The round was led by Tom Washing, Founding Partner of Sequel Venture Partners, with particip... |