Muse (InteraXon)
Interaxon Inc. makes the Muse brain-sensing headbands, which use EEG (and, on Muse S Athena, fNIRS) for meditation, focus training and sleep tracking. It sells them to consumers, researchers, clinicians and corporate wellness programs. It earns money from headband sales and an optional Premium app subscription: the free tier includes meditation and basic sleep tracking, and Premium adds an AI coach, Muse Brain Age, Alpha Peak and other features.
This is Muse the EEG headband from InteraXon (choosemuse.com, Toronto). It is not muse.ai, and not any AI assistant or agent called "Muse".
4 devices · 0 clearances on file · researched 2026-11-08
- Headquarters
- Toronto, Canada
- Founded
- 2007
- Ownership
- Private
- Website
- choosemuse.com
- Focus
- meditation/neuro, sleep, recovery
- Membership
- Muse Premium · $16.49/mo · $49.99/yr · optional ↗Free with the device: sleep tracking, Sleep Assist, Deep Sleep Boost and core meditations. Premium adds Muse Brain Age (first reading free), Enso AI Coach, Alpha Peak, Brain Recharge Score (Athena only), Smart Wakeup (Athena only), External Audio, and 500+ guided meditations and programs. Every Athena bundle includes 1 year of Premium. The 2022 Series C release planned a membership model for Q1 2023.
- Users
- 500,000 members ('Over 500,000 members') (2026-11) ↗
- Leadership
- Jean-Michel Fournier CEO ↗
Ariel Garten Co-founder and Chief Evangelism Officer ↗
Chris Aimone Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer ↗
Nadia Kumentas Chief Marketing Officer ↗
Marcela Guerra Chief Technology Officer ↗ - Last round
- Series C · 2022-08 · $9.5M
- Investors
- BDC Capital, Alabaster, Export Development Canada, Phyto Partners, Iter Investments, Intretech (HK) Co, The Clavis Foundation
- Directory
- InteraXon on /companies →
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Devices
Each device as the maker lists it; a dash means no source states the figure.
| Device | Form | Status | Sensors | Battery | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muse S Athena ↗2025-03Muse says it is the first consumer wearable to combine EEG and fNIRS. It can be worn overnight for EEG sleep staging, and Muse claims 88–96% agreement with polysomnography (Lanthier 2025). It is the first Muse that works with eyes open. | headband | On sale | EEG, fNIRS (prefrontal blood oxygenation), optical HR (PPG), accelerometer | — | $474.99US$474.99 device only; US$539.00 with 1 year of Premium (choosemuse.com shop, 2026-11-08, while an 'Early Black Friday: up to 20% off with BFCM26' banner was showing). Launch price was $474.99 US and $574.99 CAD (Engadget, 2025-03-18). Battery is about 10 hours per charge (company claim, reported by Tom's Guide), so batteryDays is left null. |
| Muse 2 ↗Introduced in 2018, according to the company timeline (month not stated). Gives real-time feedback on mind, heart, breath and stillness. Marketed as the entry model. | headband | On sale | EEG, optical HR (PPG), accelerometer | — | $249.99US$249.99 device only; US$309.00 with 1 year of Premium (choosemuse.com shop, 2026-11-08, Early Black Friday banner showing) |
| Muse (original) ↗2014-05First Muse headband, with 4 EEG sensors; released to the public in May 2014. Not sold in the current shop, so status is inferred. | headband | Discontinued | EEG | — | — |
| Muse S ↗Launched in 2019 as the soft sleep headband (company timeline; month not stated). Not listed in the US shop on 2026-11-08. Status is inferred from that and is not stated by the company. Engadget says Athena reuses the Muse S headband design. | headband | Discontinued | EEG | — | — |
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Partnerships
Teams, leagues, insurers and health systems that use or resell the devices.
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Dated facts
Launches, lawsuits, acquisitions and filings, newest first.
- 2025-03Muse S Athena (EEG + fNIRS) was unveiled at US$474.99. Muse says it runs on an AI 'Foundational Brain Model' trained on 80,000+ sessions. ↗
- 2025-03Company claims: 1+ billion minutes of brain data collected and 200+ third-party research studies. ↗
- 2022-08Interaxon closed an oversubscribed US$9.5M Series C as a non-brokered private placement, led by BDC Capital, Alabaster (family office of Misfit founder Sunny Vu) and Export Development Canada. A second close was planned by the end of Q3 2022. ↗
- 2022Digital Sleeping Pill (DSP) was introduced. It uses real-time EEG to detect wakefulness and guide the user back to sleep. ↗
- 2019Muse S for Sleep launched, bringing EEG sleep tracking and biofeedback to a soft headband. ↗
- 2014-05The first Muse headband was released to the public. ↗
- 2010-02InteraXon showed its EEG technology at the 2010 Winter Olympics, where visitors controlled the lights on the CN Tower, Niagara Falls and the Parliament buildings with their minds. ↗
- 2007InteraXon was founded in Toronto by Ariel Garten, Trevor Coleman and Chris Aimone. ↗
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Not yet confirmed
Claims seen in only one non-official place. Shown so they can be checked, not as findings.
- Earlier rounds seen only in search snippets of pages not fetched: Series A US$6M in 2013 (Horizons Ventures, OMERS Ventures, A-Grade, ff Venture Capital, Felicis, Bridge Builders Collaborative; vcnewsdaily.com); Series B US$10M on 2015-05-07 led by OMERS Ventures (crunchbase.com); Series B-1 C$14.8M / US$11.6M in 2017 (Trend Forward Capital, EDC, OMERS Ventures; venturecapitaljournal.com, mobihealthnews.com). Totals differ: CB Insights $41.26M over 9 rounds; trysignalbase.com claims $60M.
- EEG sensor count conflicts: the Muse premium/shop page says 'Seven EEG sensors' are included with every Muse device, while Wikipedia says 4 EEG sensors (original Muse).
- A review (search snippet, cybernews.com) says Muse S Athena has FCC/UL/CE certifications but no FDA clearance and is not a medical device. openFDA 510(k) has no InteraXon applicant, and Health Canada MDALL was not checked.
- The 'first consumer wearable combining EEG and fNIRS' claim is the company's own; IEEE Spectrum (search snippet) says Athena is not the only commercial monitor that combines fNIRS and EEG.
- Disambiguation: none of the sources used mixed InteraXon/Muse with muse.ai or Meta's 'Muse'. Every fact above refers to choosemuse.com / Interaxon Inc. explicitly, so no disambiguation fact was added.
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Sources
Retrieved 2026-11-08.
- Muse EEG Mental Fitness & Sleep Headband — InteraXon (Muse)
- Shop — InteraXon (Muse)
- Premium Subscription — InteraXon (Muse)
- Team — InteraXon (Muse)
- Partnerships — InteraXon (Muse)
- Introducing Muse S Athena: The Next Evolution in Cognitive Fitness — Fitt Insider (press release repost)
- Interaxon Inc. (Muse) Announces $9.5M Series C Funding Round — BioSpace (Business Wire repost)
- Muse's new wearable EEG knows how hard you're thinking — Engadget
- Muse S Athena review — Tom's Guide
- Muse (headband) — Wikipedia
- openFDA 510(k) search, applicant 'interaxon' (no matches) — U.S. FDA