BIOS to open Montréal office with $4.5 mln seed financing

BIOS, a Cambridge, U.K.-based neural engineering startup, has raised a US$4.5 million seed-stage financing backed by Canadian early-stage venture capital firm Real Ventures. Real, AME Cloud Ventures and Ariel Poler, founder of the human augmentation syndicate on AngelList, led the round, according to TechCrunch. BIOS will also be opening an R&D office in Montréal, Montréal International and Investissement Québec said. Founded in 2015, BIOS is developing technology to enable artificial intelligence-based healthcare treatments on human organs and nerve systems.

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