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Sabi Raises $50M Seed to Decode Imagined Speech

By Drooid · Oct 10, 2026, 2:15 PM UTC · How we work

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Sabi, a U.S. startup, raised a $50 million seed round.
Khosla Ventures led the round with Accel, DST Global and others.
Sabi’s cap reads EEG without gel or surgery, using a chip over 50 times more power-efficient than the ADS1299.
Trained on 100,000+ hours of neural recordings, the Brain Foundation Model converts imagined speech to text.
The system encrypts data at the sensor and will be demoed at CES 2027 in Las Vegas.

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Story summary

Sabi, a U.S. startup, raised a $50 million seed round.
Khosla Ventures led the round with Accel, DST Global and others.
Sabi’s cap reads EEG without gel or surgery, using a chip over 50 times more power-efficient than the ADS1299.
Trained on 100,000+ hours of neural recordings, the Brain Foundation Model converts imagined speech to text.
The system encrypts data at the sensor and will be demoed at CES 2027 in Las Vegas.