Minimally invasive and highly accurate
A new era of communication through brain signals
Our Story
BMI for minimally invasive measurement of intracranial electroencephalograms over a wide area of the brain
ivec Co., Ltd., a university-based startup, is developing an intravascular EEG Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) that can be used without craniotomy for patients with severe paralysis due to neurological diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Our intravascular electrodes are designed to be placed in veins at various locations on the surface and deep within the brain to measure intracranial electroencephalograms. We aim to use these devices to assist communication in ALS patients and improve their quality of life.
Our Product
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High-precision BMI that can measure signals from a wide range of the brain
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Devices that can be placed using only local anesthesia
Our Team
Experts from various fields came together through the JST Moonshot Project.
Chief Executive Officer
Hiro Iwasaki
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Marketing and Business Development Specialist with 10+ years of experience in the medical device industry.
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Proven track record at both a global medical device firm and an academia spin-off.
Chief Scientific Officer
Takufumi Yanagisawa
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Invasive BMI researcher
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Neurosurgeon
Chief Medical Officer
Hajime Nakamura
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Certified Specialist and Clinical Instructor of the Japan Neurosurgical Society, the Japan Stroke Society, the Japanese Society for Neuroendovascular Therapy
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Surgery Technical Instructor of the Japanese Society on Surgery for Cerebral Stroke
Co-Founder
Ryota Kanai
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CEO of Araya Inc.
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JST Moonshot PM
Our Research
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Microendovascular Neural Recording from Cortical and Deep Vessels with High Precision and Minimal Invasiveness (Advanced Intelligent Systems) https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aisy.202500487