Burl Concepts, Inc.
BURL Concepts provides innovative ultrasound solutions to instantly access brain performance and guide clinical interventions.
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About Burl Concepts, Inc.
How much funding has Burl Concepts, Inc. raised?
Burl Concepts, Inc. has raised $5.3M in total funding.
Where is Burl Concepts, Inc. headquartered?
Burl Concepts, Inc. is headquartered in San Diego, CA.
What does Burl Concepts, Inc. do?
BURL Concepts provides innovative ultrasound solutions to instantly access brain performance and guide clinical interventions.
What problem does Burl Concepts, Inc. solve?
Strokes and other neurological trauma have devastating effects, and clinicians need a fast, affordable way to evaluate cerebral blood flow and brain performance to guide treatment.
What's Burl Concepts, Inc.'s solution?
Burl Concepts' SONAS technology uses bedside ultrasound with a contrast solution to give clinicians a rapid, non-invasive, real-time assessment of cerebral blood flow.
What makes Burl Concepts, Inc. different?
SONAS is positioned as rapid, cost-effective, and portable enough for bedside, operating room, or outpatient clinic use, unlike more invasive or hospital-bound brain assessment methods.
What makes Burl Concepts, Inc. notable?
Co-founded by James Brailean, previously of Snaptrack (the GPS technology company Qualcomm acquired for about $1 billion), alongside Thilo Hoelscher, inventor of the company's SONAS platform technology.
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