News Summary

• Bridge Neurotech came out of stealth on Tuesday with $13.5M in funding.
• It plans a brain-computer interface that needs no surgery and no implant.
• The startup wants to use ultrasound to read brain activity through the skull.
• It also signed a research deal with Butterfly Network, which makes chip-based ultrasound devices.
• The company is developing a functional ultrasound imaging platform, known as fUSI.
• AI models then decode the brain signals it picks up, the company says.
• Its first human study is now enrolling in Redwood City, California.