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Backyard Brains Inc
Profile last edited on: 8/27/2019      CAGE: 5CTY0      UEI: RCT9VA9DDY25

Business Identifier: Brain Recording Kits: Neuroscience for Everyone!
Year Founded
2009
First Award
2011
Latest Award
2022
Program Status
Active
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Location Information

308 1/2 South State Suite 35
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
   (734) 223-8133
   hello@backyardbrains.com
   www.backyardbrains.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 12
County: Washtenaw

Public Profile

Backyard Brains offers a series of exciting and affordable entry-level Brain Recording Kits that provide a new user population the tools to learn about the brain. These tools enable anyone who is interested -- from school children and amateur scientists -- too have access to similar tools used by neuroscience worldwide to study Electrophysiology: the electrical activity of neurons

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Phase I Awards
2
Phase II Awards
2
Conversion Rate
100.00%
Phase I Dollars
$636,013
Phase II Dollars
$6,056,386
Total Awarded
$6,692,399

Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
25-49
Revenue Range
2.5M-5M
VC funded?
Yes
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
N/A

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects
Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2023 2 NIH $2,561,021
Project Title: Introducing Neuroscience and Neurocomputation Concepts to High School Students Using Brain-Based Neurorobots
2020 2 NIH $5,065,689
Project Title: Backyard Brains: Bringing Neurophysiology Into Secondary Schools
0 1 NIH $324,631
Project Title: A biologically-inspired, interactive digital device to introduce K12 students to computational neuroscience

Key People / Management

  Gregory John Gage -- Co-Founder and CEO

  Tom C Marzullo -- Co-Founder and Engineer

  Gregory John Gage

  Timothy Marzullo -- Co-Founder

Company News

Oct 19 2012
Backyard Brains: On neuroscience and cockroach legs