Elon Musk's Neuralink raises $280M in Series D funding
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Neuralink, the neurotechnology company that is working on brain-computer interfaces and was co-founded by Elon Musk, announced on Monday that it has raised $280M in funding.
In a post to X, formally known as Twitter, Neuralink said the Series D funding round was led by Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel.

Thiel and Musk have a complicated relationship going back decades, with Thiel previously calling Musk a "fraud," while Musk has described Thiel as a "sociopath."
In addition to co-founding Neuralink, Musk is also the CEO of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), SpaceX (SPACE) and X.
In May, Neuralink said that it had received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to conduct human clinical trials of the brain-implant device.
One month later, it was reported that Neuralink was valued at $5B following private stock trades carried out by Neuralink employees and early backers.

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