Merge Labs (Series A)
Funding Details
Awarder
RSS - techfundingnews.com
Date Award
January 16, 2026
Vertical
Deeptech
Funding Amount
$252,000,000
Company Info
Founders
Sam Altman, Mikhail Shapiro
Market
Healthcare
Location
US
Coinvestors
OpenAI, Bain Capital, Gabe Newell
Company Description

Merge Labs, co-founded by Sam Altman and building devices that connect human brains to computers, has raised $252 million. The company is focusing first on healthcare, with initial products aimed at medical use, where early brain-linked devices already help people with paralysis control computers or turn attempted speech into spoken words.

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