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Ariel Garten co-founded Muse® as an expression of her background in neuroscience, psychotherapy, and art, along with her dedication to bringing easy-to-use and accessible tools for well-being to the masses. Ariel is also the co-host of “Untangle” podcast, where she interviews groundbreaking neuroscientists, psychologists and meditators to teach listeners about the brain, how it works and how to use it to its full potential.
Ariel studied neuroscience at the University of Toronto and worked in labs at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre, researching Parkinson’s disease and hippocampal neurogenesis. Post graduation, she trained as a psychotherapist and had her own private practice as well as designing a clothing line that opened Toronto Fashion Week and has been sold across North America.
It was her desire to understand the self from both scientific and artistic perspectives that led her to work with BCI technology in the lab of Dr. Steve Mann. There she recognized the opportunity to commercialize technology that would fundamentally disrupt multiple markets and soon co-founded Interaxon, makers of Muse®. The company debuted with the creation of “Bright Ideas,” Ontario’s feature showcase at the 2010 Winter Olympics, where visitors in Vancouver controlled the lights on the CN Tower, Niagara Falls, and the Canadian Parliament buildings with their minds from across the country.
Ariel and the Muse® headband have been featured in global media, including CNBC, CNET, CNN, Forbes, Popular Science, TechCrunch, the Wall Street Journal and VentureBeat, which credited Ariel for creating “the most important wearable of 2014.” In addition to her full-time position at Muse®, Ariel keynotes around the world on technology, mindfulness and entrepreneurship and supports and advises a variety of start-ups.
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Muse is a portable, wearable EEG with biosignal, inertial and PPG sensors that provide immediate insight into brain and bio activity through guided meditation. Founded in 2014 and with $28.8M raised, Muse has hundreds of thousands of users and millions of sessions completed, and last week launched V2 of their product - check it out on CNBC.
Muse is a portable, wearable EEG with biosignal, inertial and PPG sensors that provide immediate insight into brain and bio activity through guided meditation. Founded in 2014 and with $28.8M raised, Muse has hundreds of thousands of users and millions of sessions completed, and last week launched V2 of their product - check it out on CNBC.
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Sharn Kandola is a data-driven tech guru with 20 years of experience in start-ups. Her expertise is in equipping businesses with actionable data in order to make game-changing decisions. Sharn is a familiar face in the Toronto tech scene - She is the COO for CTO Boost, and the Director of Startup Grind Toronto, a Global organization with over 2 million members. She also writes for Fortune, has made appearances on BNN, CHCH, CityTV, CBC, and been quoted frequently in Inc.com; Betakit; Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and The Financial Post.
"I've had the opportunity to do a lot of great things but everything always comes back to technology and data. Let's explore it, dissect it, analyse it and use it to make the world better!"
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