Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and biomedical engineer. He is the founder and CEO of Science Corporation, a company that develops advanced neural technologies to restore vision and cognition.
Early life and education
Hodak was born in New York State.1 He went to Duke University, where he majored in biomedical engineering. There, he worked at the brain-computer interface (BCI) lab run by Miguel Nicolelis.2 He graduated in 2012.3
Career
While a student at Duke, Hodak founded MyFit, a college-matching and analytics platform that assisted high school students and their families by predicting their chance of getting into a college and helping them improve it.4 It was acquired by Naviance in October 2010.3
In 2012, Hodak founded Transcriptic a robotic cloud laboratory for life sciences that allows researchers to run experiments remotely via code.5
In 2016, Hodak co-founded Neuralink. He served as president until early 2021.2
In 2021, Hodak founded Science Corporation.16789
References
References
- Bejerano, Pablo G. (December 13, 2025). "Max Hodak: 'Patients go from being almost blind to being able to read every letter on an eye chart and do crossword puzzles'". EL PAÍS English.
- Kahn, Jeremy; Vanian, Jonathan. "Neuralink's president left last year—a sign of deeper trouble". Fortune.
- Gormley, By Brian (February 14, 2014). "Transcriptic, Provider of Robotic Research Services, Boosts Funding to $4.1M - WSJ" – via www.wsj.com.
- Kolodny, Lora (November 18, 2009). "Tune In, Start Up, Drop Out". You’re the Boss Blog.
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2021/06/08/remote-controlled-labs-strateos-raises-56-million-to-build-out-its-vision-of-scientific-automation/
- Spichak, Simon (December 30, 2022). "Meet the Neuralink Cofounder Who Left and Started a Competitor That's Now Rapidly Catching Up". Futurism.
- Mullin, Emily. "A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People" – via www.wired.com.
- Vance, Ashlee (October 17, 2024). "Neuralink Co-Founder's New Startup Sells a Brain Computer Toolkit Max Hodak's company, Science, is selling devices and software that make it easier for researchers to probe the mind". Bloomberg.
- "Neuralink Rival Science Corp. Raises $104 Million Led by Khosla".