Preserving what
makes us human.
The science to strengthen human cognition has existed for decades. It just hasn't been accessible. Sychedelic is the instrument that changes that.
8
People on the team
2031
Target: global top-5 neurotech
She was 25. I was 22.
A brain infection. Six months watching her deteriorate — and no metric could tell us what was happening inside her mind. The signals were there. We just had no way to read them.
Losing my sister didn't just take her. It left me with PTSD, anxiety — a nervous system that couldn't tell the difference between danger and memory. It taught me, from the inside, what it means when your brain works against you.
That's what started our obsession. We founded Neuphony with one mission: help people understand their brain before it's too late. Four years of building, of tracking — until we hit a hard truth.
Tracking isn't enough. People don't want data. They want their lives back.
That's why Sychedelic exists. Not another wearable. A device that actually intervenes — reads your stress in real time and helps you overcome it. The anxiety. The sleeplessness. The cascade that leads somewhere worse.
This is not the end. It's the beginning.
Ria Rustagi
Co-founder & CEO, Sychedelic
People who build
at the edge.
We work with engineers who care about precision at the signal level, scientists who question the consensus, product thinkers who treat unnecessary friction as a personal failure, and marketers who believe substance outlasts noise.
If our mission feels like your work too — we'd like to hear from you.
ria.rustagi@sychedelic.comRia Rustagi
Co-founder & CEO
Leads the vision and long-term mission of making clinical neuroscience accessible to every person who needs it.
Bhavya Madan
Co-founder & CTO
Architects the closed-loop hardware and firmware — from impedance sensing to stimulation sequencing.
Sanskar
Chief Product Officer
Translates rigorous science and engineering into a product experience worth returning to every morning.
Ankush
Embedded Lead
Builds the embedded systems that make real-time neurostimulation possible at a consumer form factor.
Himani
Customer Relationships & Marketing
Owns the relationship between Sychedelic and the people using it — ensuring the brand keeps its promises.
Shruti
Digital Marketing
Translates deep technical credibility into language that resonates — and builds the channels that carry it.
Lalit
Embedded Engineer
Engineers the sensor stack and stimulation circuits at the hardware level — signal integrity, power efficiency.
Yatendra
Software Lead
Leads the software layer — companion app, data pipeline, and web infrastructure — end to end.
Our non-negotiables.
Privacy.
Your data is not for sale. We don't share your biometric data with any third party without explicit consent. You are in charge of what the device knows about you.
Sustainability.
We design hardware to be repairable and built to last years — not months. A device that reads the body should be held to a higher standard than consumer electronics that ends up in a landfill.
Quality of life.
We build at the intersection of technology and health. The goal is not performance for its own sake — it is making every day healthier, clearer, and less depleting.
Design.
Technology only scales when it removes itself from notice. We build for a world where the interface disappears and the result is undeniable.
Taking initiative.
We don't wait to be assigned. Everyone at Sychedelic is expected to identify what needs doing and move toward it — with or without a prompt.
Enjoying autonomy.
We hire people we trust and then get out of their way. Autonomy is not a perk here — it is the condition under which the best work gets done.
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