Max Hodak
Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and biomedical engineer. He is the founder and CEO of Science Corporation, a company that develops advanced neural technologies to restore vision and cognition.
Early life and education
Hodak was born in New York State.[1] He went to Duke University, where he majored in biomedical engineering. There, he worked at the brain-computer interface (BCI) lab run by Miguel Nicolelis.[2] He graduated in 2012.[3]
Career
While a student at Duke, Hodak founded MyFit, a college-matching and analytics platform that assisted high school students and their families by predicting their chance of getting into a collage and helping them improve it.[4] It was acquired by Naviance in October 2010.[3]
In 2012, Hodak founded Transcriptic a robotic cloud laboratory for life sciences that allows researchers to run experiments remotely via code.[5]
In 2016, Hodak co-founded Neuralink. He served as president until early 2021.[2]
In 2021, Hodak founded Science Corporation.[1][6][7][8][9]
References
- ^ a b Bejerano, Pablo G. (December 13, 2025). "Max Hodak: 'Patients go from being almost blind to being able to read every letter on an eye chart and do crossword puzzles'". EL PAÍS English.
- ^ a b Kahn, Jeremy; Vanian, Jonathan. "Neuralink's president left last year—a sign of deeper trouble". Fortune.
- ^ a b Gormley, By Brian (February 14, 2014). "Transcriptic, Provider of Robotic Research Services, Boosts Funding to $4.1M - WSJ" – via www.wsj.com.
- ^ Kolodny, Lora (November 18, 2009). "Tune In, Start Up, Drop Out". You’re the Boss Blog.
- ^ https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2021/06/08/remote-controlled-labs-strateos-raises-56-million-to-build-out-its-vision-of-scientific-automation/
- ^ Spichak, Simon (December 30, 2022). "Meet the Neuralink Cofounder Who Left and Started a Competitor That's Now Rapidly Catching Up". Futurism.
- ^ Mullin, Emily. "A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People" – via www.wired.com.
- ^ Vance, Ashlee (October 17, 2024). "Neuralink Co-Founder's New Startup Sells a Brain Computer Toolkit Max Hodak's company, Science, is selling devices and software that make it easier for researchers to probe the mind". Bloomberg.
- ^ "Neuralink Rival Science Corp. Raises $104 Million Led by Khosla".