MindPortal

Thought-to-Language AI Models

mindportal.com

HQ: London, England, United Kingdom

1-10

Consumer

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Overview

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

London (HQ), London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

2261 Market Street #4120, San Francisco, California, United States

2261 Market Street, San Francisco, 94114, United States

Canada

Business model

research services

strategic B2B R&D partnerships

custom neural-interface AI development

IP creation and patenting

Funding

Stage

seed

Total raised

$5.1M

Latest round

Seed · May 2021

Latest amount

$5M

People & investors

Leadership

Ekram Alam

Co-founder & CEO

Jack Baber

Co-founder & CTO

Investors

Work & culture

Bell Labs-style moonshot research culture focused on rapid experimentation, IP creation, and a very small team.

Product & market

Pricing

No public pricing; appears to be sold through strategic research partnerships and custom R&D engagements.

Differentiators

—non-invasive brain-signal decoding
—free-form imagined speech rather than memorized phrases
—generalization to new users
—no template or memorization requirement
—direct ChatGPT / LLM interaction
—thought-based GUI selection
—works across hundreds of topics
—small team with modest funding
—patent-backed IP portfolio

Technology

high-density fNIRS

non-invasive brain interfaces

semantic embeddings

prompt tuning

Llama2

custom transformer variants

brain-signal decoding

LLM-based text generation

Competitors

Neuralink

Meta Decoder

academic imagined-speech decoders

Scale & contact

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

info@mindportal.com

Latest news

Major Breakthrough In Telepathic Human-AI Communication

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.

MindSpeech Decodes Seamless Thoughts into Text

Unite.AI · Aug 2024

Coverage of the MindSpeech study described the portable fNIRS headset, the word-cloud task, and the non-invasive decoding approach.

Ekram Alam, CEO and Co-founder of MindPortal

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.

MindPortal Announces Major Breakthrough with First Successful Non-Invasive Seamless Telepathic Human-AI Communication with a Large Language Model

PRNewswire · Dec 2023

MindPortal said it achieved the first non-invasive optical brain-computer interface enabling seamless communication with ChatGPT through imagined speech.

MindPortal Raises $5 Million Led by Learn Capital and Participants Include a Rockstar and Several High-Profile Individuals

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.

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