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North

Thalmic Labs is pioneering new ways of interacting with digital devices. With a mission to merge people and technology, the company is revolutionizing how we will interact with technology in the future. Its first product, the Myo™ armband, measures electrical activity in muscles to wirelessly control computers, phones and other digital technologies, resulting in seamless interaction between humans and devices. Founded in 2012 by three graduates of the University of Waterloo's mechatronics engine

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2026-07-15
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Thalmic Labs is pioneering new ways of interacting with digital devices. With a mission to merge people and technology, the company is revolutionizing how we will interact with technology in the future. Its first product, the Myo™ armband, measures electrical activity in muscles to wirelessly control computers, phones and other digital technologies, resulting in seamless interaction between humans and devices. Founded in 2012 by three graduates of the University of Waterloo's mechatronics engine

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North is classified as Climate and energy from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Myo™ armbandcomputerstechnologydigital technologiesphones
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Climate and energy · 6 peers

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shared extracted concepts: computers; shared product terms: digital, device, mission, people; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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shared extracted concept terms: technologie; shared product terms: people, other, technologie, human; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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shared extracted concept terms: computer, phone; shared product terms: people, phone, computer

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Spoil

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shared product terms: interact, people, other, interaction; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Allotrope Medical

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shared product terms: device, found, control, muscle; shared affiliation: Y Combinator