NeuroVista Secures Nearly RMB 100 Million in Seed Funding to Advance Invasive Visual Brain-Computer Interface

Jun 18, 2026 14:30 CST Updated 14:30

XS Vision

Developer of Foundational Hard-Tech for Invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces

On June 17, 2026, invasive brain-computer interface company XS Vision announced the completion of a seed funding round totaling nearly RMB 100 million.This round of financing is led byMatrix Partners ChinaLead investor,Xinglian Capital, Yanyuan Venture Capital, Shuimu Venture CapitalCo-investment. The funds will be primarily used for process validation of core components, iterative animal experiments, and team expansion.。

XS Vision, founded in Beijing, brings together several "Young Principal Investigators" in the field of brain-computer interfaces under China's National Brain Project.

Founder Wang Qian: From the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, and the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Co-founder Li Yuanning: Professor at ShanghaiTech University, Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience from Carnegie Mellon University; conducted postdoctoral research for many years in the Edward Chang Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco (a top-tier laboratory for brain-computer interfaces).

Co-founder Zhu Yixin: Professor at Peking University, expert in embodied AI, and invited speaker at the NVIDIA GTC Global Conference.

Furthermore, the co-founding team also includes experts from Peking University in fields such as embodied intelligence, brain-computer interface chips, and neuromorphic chips.

Unlike most domestic brain-computer interface companies that currently focus on motor function reconstruction, XS Vision has chosen a differentiated path—integrating vision, language, and embodiment.

Co-founder Li Yuanning believes that vision is the most critical sensory input for humans, while language serves as the core output for human expression. The company aims to develop a “neural graphics card” brain-computer interface system featuring ten-thousand-channel, integrated implantation, thereby enabling high-bandwidth, bidirectional interaction between the brain and machines.

The team has established a robust foundation in visual cortex research. The founder, Wang Xi’s team, pioneered single-neuron recordings from the human visual cortex in clinical patients in China, and published a research paper in 2020 titled “Mapping Mechanisms of Color Visual Hallucinations Induced by Electrical Stimulation of the Human Visual Cortex.” During his doctoral studies at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Li Yuanning conducted research on invasive neural encoding and decoding in the human visual cortex. Their decade-long accumulation of foundational algorithms and experimental data constitutes the technological barrier for XS Vision.

Matrix Partners China, a top-tier early-stage technology fund in China, led this round of financing. The syndicate of co-investors—including Xinglian Capital (Z Fund), Yanyuan Ventures (a Peking University-affiliated fund), and Shuimu Ventures (a Tsinghua University-affiliated fund)—enabled this young team of scientists to “secure simultaneous investment from a leading technology fund and institutions affiliated with Peking University and Tsinghua University right from their debut.”

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