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Burl Concepts, Inc.

San Diego, CA
LAST FUNDING
$5.3M

BURL Concepts provides innovative ultrasound solutions to instantly access brain performance and guide clinical interventions.

Funding history

RoundAmount
Undisclosed$5.3M
SEC Form D filed
Sep 4, 2025·Apr 3, 2025·Aug 31, 2023·Nov 14, 2018·Oct 6, 2016·Feb 24, 2014

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.

Leadership

James Brailean
Executive Officer, Director
Christian Buckley
Executive Officer, Director
Executive Officer
LinkedIn ↗
Executive Officer, Director
LinkedIn ↗
Peter van der Sluis
Executive Officer, Director
Oppel Greeff
Director
Benedikt Kummer
Director
Will Martin
Director
Industry
B2B
HQ
San Diego, CA
Raised
$5.3M

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