Bezos Expeditions, Gates Frontier back brain-computer interface company in $75M financing round

Bezos Expeditions, the investment firm of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Gates Frontier, Microsoft founder Bill Gates’ investment fund, joined in a $75 million series C financing round for Synchron, a brain-computer interface company. 

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The company’s brain-computer interface is implanted in a blood vessel on the brain’s surface and is designed to restore the capability for severely paralyzed patients to control devices with hands-free point-and-click, according to a Dec. 15 Synchron news release.

The financing will be used to launch a clinical trial.

ARCH Venture Partners led the financing, bringing Synchron’s total capital raised to $145 million.

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