Company profileCore BCI
BCIFlex
A Beijing company with an implanted wireless BCI in a registered study for tetraplegia.
- Location
- Beijing, China
- Founded
- 2022
- Class
- Core BCI
- Also known as
- BCIFlex Medical Technology Co., Ltd.
- Funding stage
- Series A
- Sources last checked
- 6 Oct 2026
What they are building
Beijing company founded in 2022. It describes its system as invasive and fully implanted, with stretchable, flexible electrodes and 560 to 1,024 channels, and launched it at the Zhongguancun Forum in March 2026. A study at Beijing Tiantan Hospital in people with tetraplegia from cervical spinal cord injury is recruiting.
- Invasiveness
- Invasive
- Recording / stimulation
- Recording
- Main use cases
- Move, Control
- Works with
- Beijing Tiantan Hospital
Where they are clinically
Clinical study
A larger structured study of safety and performance, short of a pivotal trial.
Trade press reports a first implantation in 2025 at a hospital of Jilin University. The registry lists one study: 34 participants planned at Beijing Tiantan Hospital, recruiting since July 2026. Neither says whether the electrodes sit on or in the brain, and no result has been published.
Access today
Clinical study
Accessible only by enrolling in a registered clinical study.
- Shown in people
- A first implantation in 2025, reported by trade press without results. One registered study is recruiting.
- Still an aim
- Assisted grasp after cervical spinal cord injury.
- What stands in the way
- A public record: no result, paper or registry outcome yet.
On record here: 0 peer-reviewed papers
This technology remains experimental and is not an established treatment. Access is limited to registered clinical studies.
Why this company matters
BCIFlex joins Neuracle, StairMed and NeuroXess, each with a registered implant study of 32 to 34 participants in China, and it targets the use Neuracle's NEO is registered for: assisted grasp after cervical spinal cord injury. What is public is a registry entry and trade-press reports of a launch, a funding round and a first implantation; no result is.
Key milestones
15 Jul 2026
A study of the implantable wireless system in tetraplegia begins recruiting at Beijing Tiantan Hospital; 34 participants planned.
31 Mar 2026
Launches a fully implanted system with stretchable, flexible electrodes and up to 1,024 channels at the Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing.
12 Aug 2025
Series A of more than RMB 300 million ($42M) reported, led by Zhongguancun Independent Innovation Fund, Legend Capital and YuanBio Venture Capital.
2025
First clinical implantation, at a hospital of Jilin University, as reported by trade press.
Funding history
- 12 Aug 2025≈ $42MSeries A · led by Zhongguancun Independent Innovation Fund, Legend Capital, YuanBio Venture CapitalReported as more than RMB 300 million; the dollar figure is the report's.Reported by trade press.
Investors namedZhongguancun Independent Innovation Fund · Legend Capital · YuanBio Venture Capital
Rounds in the Briefing’s sample only; not a complete funding history.
IP and patents
Filings touch 5 of the 11 layers, most often interface and electrodes (22 of 24 families) and surgical access (11).
- 24
- patent families identified and counted as BCI
- 2022
- earliest first filing among them
- 24
- first filed since 2021; the latest years are incomplete
- 22 of 24
- include a granted member, of those whose family record was read
Across the stack: families by layer
Themes, by number of families: electrodes and arrays (22), insertion tools and robots (10), peripheral interfaces (10), stimulation (6), implant electronics (5), packaging and hermeticity (5). A family can carry several.
Published in: China (24), United States (8), counted over the 24 families whose full record was read.
Representative families
- Flexible neural electrode assemblyfirst filed 2025 · Electrodes and arrays, Peripheral interfaces, Packaging and hermeticityGranted · CN
- Nerve stimulatorfirst filed 2024 · Electrodes and arrays, Peripheral interfaces, Packaging and hermeticityGranted · CN, US
- Implantable flexible electrode, device, and kitfirst filed 2024 · Electrodes and arrays, Peripheral interfaces, StimulationGranted · CN, US
- Implantation system and method for implanting flexible neural electrodefirst filed 2024 · Insertion tools and robots, Electrodes and arrays, Implant electronicsGranted · CN, US
- Auxiliary implantation assembly, kit, and system for flexible neural electrodesfirst filed 2023 · Insertion tools and robots, Electrodes and arrays, Peripheral interfacesGranted · CN, EP, US
- Flexible neural electrode composite structure and manufacturing and implantation method therefor, and auxiliary implantation assemblyfirst filed 2022 · Insertion tools and robots, Electrodes and arraysGranted · CN, EP
18 more families counted
- Auxiliary implantation device and auxiliary implantation system with samefirst filed 2026 · Insertion tools and robots, Electrodes and arrays, Implant electronicsGranted · CN
- Method and device for planning electrode implantation point during brain surface pulsation and storage mediumfirst filed 2025 · Surgical planning and procedure, Electrodes and arraysGranted · CN
- Flexible neural electrode assembly and preparation method of flexible neural electrodefirst filed 2025 · Insertion tools and robots, Electrodes and arrays, Peripheral interfacesGranted · CN
- Flexible neural electrode assemblyfirst filed 2025 · Electrodes and arrays, Peripheral interfacesGranted · CN
- In-vitro protection device assembly for flexible neural electrodefirst filed 2025 · Electrodes and arraysGranted · CN
- Connecting assembly for flexible neural electrode and flexible neural electrode kitfirst filed 2025 · Insertion tools and robots, Electrodes and arrays, Connectors and feedthroughsGranted · CN
- Flexible neural electrode devicefirst filed 2025 · Electrodes and arraysApplication
- Flexible neural electrode and preparation method thereoffirst filed 2025 · Electrodes and arraysApplication
- Fully implantable and detachable high channel neural interface device, method for proceeding electrode and method for replacing devicefirst filed 2024 · Electrodes and arrays, Peripheral interfaces, Packaging and hermeticityGranted · CN
- Performance evaluation method and device for brain-computer interface electrode and mediumfirst filed 2024 · Electrodes and arrays, Neural decodingGranted · CN
- Electrode implanting mechanism and electrode implanting equipment with samefirst filed 2024 · Insertion tools and robots, Electrodes and arrays, Packaging and hermeticityGranted · CN
- Cannula, assembly, assembly bundle and device for implantable flexible neural electrodefirst filed 2024 · Electrodes and arrays, Peripheral interfacesGranted · CN
- Auxiliary implantation device and auxiliary implantation system of flexible neural electrodefirst filed 2024 · Insertion tools and robots, Electrodes and arrays, Implant electronicsGranted · CN
- High-throughput neural signal decoding method and device based on invasive brain-computer interfacefirst filed 2024 · Neural decodingGranted · CN
- Auxiliary implantation assembly and implantation system of flexible neural electrodefirst filed 2024 · Insertion tools and robots, Electrodes and arrays, Peripheral interfacesGranted · CN
- Method for processing high-throughput neural signals during motor imagery and related equipmentfirst filed 2024 · Neural decoding, Motor decodingGranted · CN
- Auxiliary implanting device for flexible electrodefirst filed 2023 · Insertion tools and robots, Electrodes and arrays, Implant electronicsGranted · CN
- Implantable stretchable flexible neural electrode, electrode group, and electrode arrayfirst filed 2022 · Electrodes and arrays, Peripheral interfacesGranted · CN
Families found for BCIFlex in the EPO’s worldwide database, grouped so that one invention counts once. A filing shows what a company sought to protect. It does not show that the technology was built, is in a product, or works in people, and themes are read from titles, abstracts and classes, not from the claims. How to read this
Competitive context
ECoGApproved / cleared
Neuracle
Maker of NEO, a wireless epidural implant and the first implanted BCI to receive a marketing registration anywhere.
IntracorticalClinical study
StairMed
An implanted intracortical BCI built on ultra-flexible electrodes, now in four registered clinical studies in China.
ECoGClinical study
NeuroXess
Flexible high-channel-count implants, with early human work on movement and Mandarin speech decoding.
Sources
- 01
Clinical registryClinicalTrials.govChecked against source 5 Oct 2026
Sponsor BCIFlex Medical Technology Co., Ltd. Recruiting since 15 July 2026 at Beijing Tiantan Hospital; 34 participants planned.
- 02
BCIFlex releases 1000-channel invasive flexible brain-computer interface system (opens in a new tab)
Independent reportingVCBeat31 Mar 2026Checked against source 6 Oct 2026
Chinese health-industry trade press in English, reporting the company's launch. Gives 560 to 1,024 channels, a fully implanted design, a first implantation in 2025 and a registration trial planned for 2026. It does not say where the electrodes are placed.
- 03
BCIFlex secures over ¥300 million in Series A funding (opens in a new tab)
Independent reportingG-MedTech12 Aug 2025Checked against source 6 Oct 2026
Trade press. Gives the round as over RMB 300 million (US$42 million), the lead investors, Beijing and the founding in 2022.
- 04
China's brain-computer interface sector achieves accelerating progress (opens in a new tab)
Independent reportingState Council Information Office of China17 Jul 2026Source identified, not opened
Found through search. The page could not be opened: its certificate did not match its address. State media, reporting a company's own presentation.