About NeuroNexus
The tools neuroscience runs on.
Our Story
NeuroNexus helped create the commercial silicon-probe industry. Founded in 2004 as a University of Michigan spin-out by Daryl Kipke, Rio Vetter, and Jamille Hetke, it took the Michigan probe out of the lab and into labs worldwide, which seeded a field now vital to neuroscience. NeuroNexus was acquired by Integer (formerly Greatbatch) in 2012. In 2019, the founders, with Tom Hook and several neurotechnology colleagues, formed the NEL Group to buy it back and return it to independent, founder-led operation. In the years since, through a global contraction in public research funding, NeuroNexus kept advancing its innovation programs — which are now reaching the market — and still leads the field it started.
Timeline
From founding to acquisition to independence
01.
2004 — Founded
Spun out of the University of Michigan to commercialize the silicon Michigan probe.
02.
2012 — Acquired by Integer
Joined Integer (Greatbatch); scaled manufacturing, quality systems, and global reach.
03.
2019 — Independent Again
Founders and Tom Hook re-acquired NeuroNexus through the NEL Group.
04.
Today — Founder-Led
Privately held, founder-led; innovation programs now reaching the market.
The founders who built the field
Still leading the company they started in 2004.
Daryl R. Kipke
Founder & CEO. Co-founded NeuroNexus in 2004 to bring the Michigan silicon probe to labs worldwide, and returned it to founder ownership in 2019. A serial neurotechnology entrepreneur.
Rio Vetter
Co-Founder, COO & CTO. Directs the company's technology end to end — from research through manufacturing — turning neural-interface science into products labs rely on.
Jamille Hetke
Co-Founder, VP of Engineering. Chief probe designer and a Michigan Probe team veteran of two decades; her work anchors the company's electrode platform.
By the Numbers
2004
Founded the commercial silicon-probe industry — and still lead it.
5,000+
Peer-reviewed papers citing NeuroNexus technology.
1,000+
Research labs on six continents.
Full-Stack IP
Proprietary designs, processes, and software — developed in-house.
What We Build
Three product lines, one integrated platform — designed and made in-house.
Neural Probes & Electrode Arrays
Hundreds of catalog designs and 2,000+ variants for CNS, PNS, cardiac, and organoid targets. Silicon MEMS probes, surface grids, cuff electrodes, 3D arrays, and Fusion double-sided probes.
Data Acquisition & Instrumentation
X-Series XDAQ recording and stimulation systems, SmartBox for SiNAPS, headstages, microdrives, insertion tools, commutators, and optogenetics equipment.
Radiens Software
One local-first platform: Allego for acquisition, Videre for analysis, visualization, and curation, and Radiens Compute — the engine — with the free RadiensPy client.
Headquarters
NeuroNexus is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan — the same city where the Michigan probe was invented over three decades ago.