wearable technology

Peter Thiel’s phil­an­thropic fund invests in brain health start­up Neu­mi­tra (Boston Busi­ness Journal):

“Break­out Labs, a Sil­i­con Val­ley-based phil­an­thropic fund launched by Pay­Pal founder Peter Thiel, has made its first Boston invest­ment, in brain health start­up Neumitra.

Neu­mi­tra’s tech­nol­o­gy mea­sures the effects of stress on brain health per­for­mance in var­i­ous ways, from wear­able tech­nol­o­gy to tablet and mobile soft­ware and algorithms…Though Break­out Labs did not dis­close the exact amount of the invest­ment, the grant-mak­ing orga­ni­za­tion typ­i­cal­ly invests up to $350,000 in each startup…”

Learn more:

• Start-up Thync rais­es $13 mil­lion to mar­ket tran­scra­nial stim­u­la­tion via con­sumer wearable
• Info­graph­ic on the Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020