Connectome Health, a Zurich NeuroTech startup, has raised $2 million in a pre-seed round to build a platform that tracks brain activity repeatedly to detect small cognitive changes over time. The round was led by Redstone and included Concept Ventures, Octopus, and transatlantic angel investors. The financing also includes roughly $120,000 in non-dilutive public funding, the company said.
Founded in 2024 by Lucas Scherdel and Dr. Rufus Mitchell-Heggs, Connectome says its approach creates personalised baselines so shifts from burnout, attention disorders or early neurodegeneration can be spotted sooner than with one-off tests. The company describes its model as tying neural measures to everyday context such as sleep, activity and behavioural load.
The startup traces its technical basis to Imperial College London’s LUCID study. Connectome says that work showed everyday behaviours leave measurable signatures in brain blood flow, enabling cognitive tracking outside lab settings. The company positions that research foundation as an alternative to consumer apps that rely mainly on self-report tests.
Connectome is targeting three customer groups:
- individuals seeking ongoing cognitive insights;
- clinics wanting trackable cognitive data across patient populations;
- platforms and research organisations needing longitudinal brain-health datasets.
The funding will support product rollout with select partners and R&D to extend the platform from lifestyle and wearables toward broader diagnostics, the company said. Connectome frames its offering as an interpretive layer rather than a new sensor: it links neural signals to contextual data to explain why cognition changes, without replacing clinical care.
For the moment, Connectome’s public materials emphasize research partnerships and pilot deployments as the near-term path to validation and revenue. The company declined to share customer numbers or a product launch date in its announcement.
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