Thought-to-Language AI Models
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
MindPortal is a London-based AI research lab building non-invasive brain-computer interfaces and thought-based communication tools. Its flagship product is MindSpeech, a thought-to-text model, alongside MindGPT for LLM interaction and MindClick for thought-driven GUI control.
Primary product
MindSpeech — a non-invasive thought-to-text decoder and thought-based AI interface
Founded
2019
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Research Services
Sub-industry
Neural interfaces / brain-computer-interface AI
Offices
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Business model
Stage
seed
Total raised
$5.1M
Latest round
Seed · May 2021
Latest amount
$5M
Investors
Bell Labs-style moonshot research culture focused on rapid experimentation, IP creation, and a very small team.
Pricing
No public pricing; appears to be sold through strategic research partnerships and custom R&D engagements.
Differentiators
Technology
Competitors
Estimated revenue
about $1M (public LinkedIn estimate; some third-party profiles show $1M-$10M)
Estimated monthly visits
1.1K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
PRNewswire · Aug 2024
MindPortal announced that MindSpeech decoded continuous imagined speech from the brain non-invasively, with the company saying the study showed statistically significant results and represented a major step toward thought-to-text communication.
Unite.AI · Aug 2024
Coverage of the MindSpeech study described the portable fNIRS headset, the word-cloud task, and the non-invasive decoding approach.
Unite.AI · Feb 2024
Interview with Ekram Alam on MindPortal’s mission, its non-invasive neural interfaces, and the company’s progress toward thought-based interaction with LLMs.
PRNewswire · Dec 2023
MindPortal said it achieved the first non-invasive optical brain-computer interface enabling seamless communication with ChatGPT through imagined speech.
PRNewswire · May 2021
Funding announcement for a $5M seed round led by Learn Capital with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Dan Siroker, Matt Bellamy, James Park, Julie Zhuo, Scrum Ventures, Y Combinator, and earlier pre-seed backers.