Hemispheric
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About
Hemispheric is an Israeli NeuroAI company building Descartes, a six-billion-parameter foundation model trained to interpret non-invasive electrical brain activity for clinical diagnostics 12. The company emerged from stealth on 2026-07-15 after roughly six years of development, disclosing $52 million in early-stage funding and 112 employees 12. Descartes was trained on more than 250,000 hours of multimodal EEG and behavioral recordings from over 100,000 participants, and is being applied to PTSD, depression, anxiety, mild brain injury, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease via a wearable dry-electrode EEG headset paired with tablet-based tasks 123. Co-founder Gidi Littwin previously co-founded RealFace, which was acquired by Apple and integrated into FaceID 13.
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Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
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| 2026-07-15 | Seed | $52M | Hanaco Ventures, OneMind / Awareness Capital, Protocol Labs | L Catterton, Arkin Capital, OurCrowd, Artofin, Howard Morgan, Naomi Azrieli, Yasmin Lukatz, Scott Belsky 123 |
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Sources
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“NeuroAI diagnostic co Hemispheric raises $52m,” Globes, July 15, 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-neuroai-diagnostic-co-hemispheric-raises-52m-1001549435↩↩↩↩↩
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“Hemispheric Emerges from Stealth with $52M Capitalization to Launch Descartes Brain-Decoding Model,” HIT Consultant, July 15, 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://hitconsultant.net/2026/07/15/hemispheric-neuroai-launches-descartes-brain-model/↩↩↩↩
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“Hemispheric Raises $52M for Brain-Decoding AI Platform,” JustAI News, July 15, 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://justainews.com/companies/funding-news/hemispheric-raises-52m-for-brain-decoding-ai-platform/↩↩↩