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Dcode.AI

Dcode.AI is building the Large Brain Model (LBM), a universal EEG foundation model it says is trained on Emotiv's 15-year consumer/research EEG corpus (claimed 300,000+ hours, 150,000+ subjects, 156 countries). The product stack is Emotiv-FM: an on-device Mamba-2 U-Net (about 1-4M parameters) plus a cloud EEG-X transformer (~14M parameters), licensed as an embedded SDK, annual platform license, and usage-based API. Target users are device manufacturers, enterprise/pharma/defense platforms, developers, and researchers. Tan Le is listed as CEO and founder of both Emotiv and Dcode.AI; Geoff Mackellar as CTO and co-founder. Public scientific work cited on the site includes EEG2Rep, EEGM2, EEG-X, SAMBA, and SpellerSSL, published from Emotiv Research. The site solicits investor conversations and a deck; no announced financing round was found.

Team

Geoff MackellarCTO & Co-Founder

Tan LeCEO & Founder

Investments

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Dcode.AI research note (2026-09-09) Listings - Website: https://www.dcode.ai/ (Framer; copyright 2026 Dcode AI). Team: https://www.dcode.ai/team. API: api@dcode.ai. Investor IR: tan@dcode.ai. - No LinkedIn company page found for this EEG foundation-model Dcode.AI (distinct from dcode.co, Indian edtech dcodeai.com, LangChain dcode, etc.). - Crunchbase https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dcode-ai is a mismatched closed HelloEarnest travel listing that happens to show www.dcode.ai/; do not use it for this company. - No PitchBook, Tracxn, NFX Signal, or Owler profile found for Emotiv's Dcode.AI / Large Brain Model. - Neurofounders lists EMOTIV (https://www.neurofounders.co/startups/emotiv; USA, founded 2011, EEG, Seed, non-medical) and has no Dcode.AI startup page. - Assigned article https://www.neurofounders.co/articles/inside-the-frontier-of-brain-foundation-models (7 Sep 2026, Dominic Borkelmans) is a Neurofounders/Neurotech Futures webinar recap with Dan Furman (Arctop) and Dimitris Sakellariou (Piramidal). It does not mention Dcode.AI. Other Neurofounders BFM pieces cite LaBraM, CBraMod, NeuroLM, BrainOmni, Synaptrix, Meta TRIBE; Emotiv appears in hardware/consumer EEG coverage, not as Dcode. Emotiv corpus relationship (partnership vs same company vs spinout) - Same people: Tan Le is quoted as CEO and Founder of Emotiv / Dcode.AI; Geoff Mackellar is CTO and Co-Founder of Dcode.AI and co-founder/CTO of Emotiv. - Emotiv about page (https://www.emotiv.com/about): Emotiv's platform is the foundation for cognitive AI infrastructure, including Dcode.AI and Axon, its universal EEG foundation model / Large Brain Model. - Dcode site: built on the Emotiv corpus (15 years, researcher-collected, event-marked in EmotivPRO across 4,000+ institutions / 156 countries). Footer: dcode.ai · built on the Emotiv corpus · emotiv.com. - Papers cited on dcode.ai (EEG2Rep, EEGM2, EEG-X, SAMBA, SpellerSSL) list Emotiv Research / emotiv.com emails, not a separate Dcode affiliation. - Tan Le's 28 Jan 2025 Emotiv CEO letter (https://www.emotiv.com/blog/new-year-letter-from-our-ceo-tan-le) describes building the first foundation model for the brain inside Emotiv (EEG2Rep, Mamba) without naming Dcode. - Best reading: Dcode.AI is Emotiv's foundation-model brand and licensing layer (SDK/API), not a verified independent spinout with its own cap table. No source says Emotiv invested in Dcode. Emotiv was added as employer/partner Company Emotiv only; not marked as a Dcode investor. - Emotiv itself is a separate operating company (Emotiv Inc., founded 2011, HQ San Francisco, facilities Sydney / Hanoi / Ho Chi Minh City) and is the corpus owner, hardware vendor, and employer of the listed team. Product positioning - Large Brain Model (LBM) / Emotiv-FM / Axon: device-agnostic EEG foundation model. Company claims 1-14M parameters, on-device Mamba-2 U-Net (~1-4M) plus cloud EEG-X transformer (~14M), linear compute, no per-user calibration. - Corpus claims (company site; not independently audited): 300,000+ hours including 240,000+ proprietary; 245M+ channel-minutes; 150,000+ subjects; vs LaBraM / EEGFormer / REVE in a marketing table. - Access: embedded SDK (wearable/AR/hearable OEMs, per-unit), annual platform license (neurotech, pharma, CROs, enterprise, defense; on-prem option), usage-based API (attention, load, fatigue, valence, motor intent), direct consumer access, and a neuro-synthetic panel for predicted neural responses to stimuli. - Applications named: consumer wearables, workplace safety/drowsiness, clinical/neurological assessment, adaptive learning, XR/gaming HCI, neuromarketing/research infrastructure. - Privacy posture: on-device inference; user-owned data. Consumer flywheel: Brainwear by Emotiv (https://www.brainwear.app) — an Emotiv product, not a Dcode subsidiary. - Papers: EEG2Rep KDD 2024 (arXiv:2402.17772); EEGM2 arXiv:2502.17873 / ICDM 2025 AI4TS workshop; EEG-X arXiv:2511.08861; SAMBA arXiv:2511.18571; SpellerSSL (NeurIPS 2025 per Tan Le LinkedIn, 28 Oct 2025). Team (https://www.dcode.ai/team) - Tan Le — CEO and Founder of Emotiv and Dcode.AI. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanle ; X https://x.com/TanTTLe. Recorded as TanLe with roles at DcodeAI (CEO & Founder) and Emotiv (Founder & CEO, from 2011). San Francisco. - Dr Geoff Mackellar — CTO and Co-Founder. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffmackellar. Recorded as GeoffMackellar with roles at DcodeAI (CTO & Co-Founder) and Emotiv (Co-Founder & CTO, from 2011). Sydney. Co-author on EEG2Rep/EEGM2/EEG-X. - Patrick Chu — VP of Software Engineering (Dcode team page) / VP of Engineering (Emotiv/Craft). LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickchu. Hong Kong. Recorded as person PatrickChu (no investor identity). - Dr Navid Mohammadi Foumani — Foundation Model Architect & Lead. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/navid-foumani/ ; GitHub https://github.com/Navidfoumani. Melbourne. Lead author EEG2Rep and EEG-X. Recorded as person NavidMohammadiFoumani. - Dr Jiazhen Hong — AI Research Scientist; lead author EEGM2 and SAMBA (Emotiv Research). No unique LinkedIn/X found. Not added. - Dr Nam Nguyen — Director of Corpus Curation (team bio: Halliburton acoustic ML, BlackBerry audio, 21 US patents). No unique LinkedIn/X. Not added. - Dr Nikolas Williams — Director of Neuroscience & Research. Emotiv neuroscientist; Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l8P7ISUAAAAJ ; Macquarie adjunct https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/nikolas-williams/ ; ORCID 0000-0003-4349-906X. No unique LinkedIn/X. Not added. - Cuong Nguyen — Senior ML Ops Engineer. Not added (name collision; vn.linkedin.com/in/nguoithichkhampha is Cuong Trinh Manh at Emotiv, a different person). - Quoc Nguyen — ML Ops Engineer. Not added. - Older https://dcode.ai/team_bio.html listed Soheila Ghane as Foundation Model Lead (https://au.linkedin.com/in/soheila-ghane). Current team page does not. She remains an Emotiv Research co-author (EEG2Rep, EEGM2, EEG-X, SpellerSSL). Not added as current Dcode staff. Funding - No announced Dcode.AI equity or debt round, amount, date, lead, or named investors. No AddInvestment written. - Site is fundraising-adjacent: Request the deck / actively engaged with strategic partners and investors. That is not a closed round. - Do not copy Emotiv financing onto Dcode. Emotiv's own history (not Dcode): Insight Kickstarter 2013; Disney Accelerator 2015; Acequia Capital debt about USD 10M on 25 Jul 2023 (CB Insights); PitchBook lists about USD 10M raised and investors Acequia Capital, Disney Accelerator, Techstars, Plug and Play, Macquarie University Incubator. Tan Le has said Emotiv bootstrapped. - Indian edtech DcodeAI (dcodeai.com; about USD 500K from Sultan Chand & Sons, 2020-21) is a different company. Schema gaps / unfit data - Legal entity unknown: no incorporation, distinct cap table, or EIN found. Dcode may be a brand of Emotiv Inc. / Emotiv Research Pty Ltd; still stored as Company DcodeAI because it is marketed as a partner/investor-facing product company. - Founded year, HQ, headcount, and legal name unknown for Dcode.AI (omit rather than guess). Team is split SF / Sydney / Melbourne / Hong Kong / Vietnam. - No round object to store; deck-request / in-discussions is not announcedAt financing. - Emotiv is corpus owner and parent/sister operator, not a verified financial investor in Dcode. - Non-founder employees cannot receive Role rows without creating Investor identities; Patrick and Navid stored as friends. Remaining named staff lack unique LinkedIn/X source URLs. - Corpus hours, subject counts, parameter counts, and SOTA claims are company-asserted marketing. - Product-name overlap (LBM, Emotiv-FM, Axon, EEG-X, EEGM2, SAMBA) does not fit a single product field. - Brainwear is Emotiv's consumer app/hardware, not a Dcode subsidiary. - Emotiv's Apr 2025 MYndspan Crowdcube participation is Emotiv investing in another company; out of Dcode scope and not recorded here.