About Us

Inscopix is a discovery phase neurotechnology company in Silicon Valley, California, that is best known for transforming real-time brain mapping with its miniature microscope invention. Our team brings together deep domain expertise in neuroscience, physics, engineering, and data science and is developing radically new approaches to understanding the brain in health and disease.

We are on a mission to catalyze a robust advance in neuroscience: To decipher how cognition and adaptive behavior emerge from complex patterns of electrical signals flowing through networks of neurons in the brain. Our neurotechnologies and the knowledge that they foster will transform human existence, from alleviating the suffering caused by debilitating brain disorders, to the development of advanced artificial intelligence, to a more profound understanding of what makes us the dominant species on Planet Earth.

We innovate and develop neurotechnologies keeping their scientific impact in sharp focus. We do what ever it takes to make our users scientifically successful as they apply our technologies to some of the most challenging questions in neuroscience.

We design, test, integrate, and manufacture our neurotechnologies in-house. We also train, educate, and support our users. We firmly believe that vertical integration is the best entrepreneurial mechanism for thoughtful democratization of our neurotechnologies.

We maximize value for scientific discovery by advancing in close partnership with researchers. We enlist top investigators to guide and validate our technological development and support our users with the collective intellect of our transdisciplinary team.

In 2014, the White House recognized Inscopix as an industry partner of the Presidential BRAIN Initiative. Inscopix supported the initiative through its $2 million DECODE Grant Program.

In 2013, The Scientist magazine ranked Inscopix’s miniature microscope as the #1 life science innovation, calling it a “major disruptive event in the history of neuroscience”.

Founding

Inscopix is founded by Drs. Kunal Ghosh, Mark Schnitzer, and Abbas El Gamal to commercialize the Stanford miniature microscope invention. The company receives seed financing from Floodgate and Fidelity Biosciences.

nVista

Inscopix launches nVista, a commercial grade miniature microscope-based brain imaging system for plug-and-play neural activity mapping at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Meeting.

Building the infrastructure

Inscopix builds its manufacturing facility at the Palo Alto headquarters and biological R&D labs in Mountain View for application development, training, and scientific research.

Mosaic

Inscopix starts building end-to-end solutions around the miniature microscope technology with the launch of Mosaic data analysis software.

A growing user base

Inscopix community grows to over 100 laboratories across the globe. These include 6 Nobelists and 23 HHMI investigators. First research article outside the founders lab is published in the top-tier journal Cell.

Series A, nVoke

Inscopix raises $10M in a Series financing round led by Playground Ventures. The company launches a second product, nVoke, for integrated brain activity imaging and manipulation at SFN Meeting.

Scaling Up

The team grows to 50 FTEs and the user base expands to ~200 laboratories with over 350 systems in the field.

Who we are

Our approach

Science first

Vertical Integration

Team Science

Recognition

A brief history of Inscopix

Founding

nVista

Building the infrastructure

Mosaic

A growing user base

Series A, nVoke

Scaling Up

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