Develops brain-computer interfaces, co-founded by Sam Altman, with early products in the medical field.
Founders
Sam Altman(United States · ♂)— The OpenAI CEO, who has long written about the inevitable 'merge' of humans and machines, co-founded Merge Labs in 2025 to build non-invasive brain-computer interfaces.
Alex Blania(Germany · ♂)— The CEO of Sam Altman's Worldcoin/Tools for Humanity co-founded Merge Labs as its CEO, extending his work on human-AI infrastructure into brain interfaces.
Mikhail Shapiro(United States · ♂)— A Caltech biomolecular engineer pioneering ultrasound-based, gene-modified non-invasive brain scanning co-founded Merge Labs to commercialize that core technology.
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Merge Labs, the brain-computer interface startup co-founded by Sam Altman, raised $252 million with OpenAI as its largest investor and a round led by Bain Capital.
$252M
Jun 2022
Seed
London Web3 banking-infrastructure firm Merge raised a 9.5M dollar seed led by Octopus Ventures, with Hashed, Coinbase Ventures and Alameda Research.
$8.8M
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