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Sabi

raised · BCI hardware · pre-launch reveal

92
potential

Beanie with 100k EEG sensors. Khosla and Accel-backed, just stealthed.

Founder team from Neuralink + Stanford NPL group; 4 of 6 early hires from prior Khosla portfolio.
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Our top-scored startups went on to raise their next round 11x as often

5.1% vs 0.4%: the share of startups in the top vs bottom quarter of our potential score that announced a next funding round, among the 865 startups we covered from May 2026 to August 2026, checked in early October 2026.

11x
next-round rate, top vs bottom quarter of our potential score
19 weeks
from our coverage of InsForge to its round being announced
12 weeks
we reported Gaia's round before the press did

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5.1% vs 0.4%, top vs bottom quarter of our potential score, 865 startups covered May to August 2026. TechCrunch reported Airbound’s $37M Series A and Arga Labs’ $10M seed 7 weeks after our editions. Across six selected examples, our edition came an average of 9.8 weeks before the round was announced or first reported. See the track record