Overview
Brainphonics is a Belgian tech company focused on creating Corgee, described as the first objective hearing test utilizing natural speech rather than traditional audiometric methods.
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- Brainphonics on the national news! We’re proud to share that UZ Leuven is the first hospital in the world to implement the CORGEE objective speech test into clinical use, making it a part of daily patient care. 💬 "Even before a child with hearing loss turns three, we want to be certain that they can hear well with their hearing aid or cochlear implant. These are crucial years for speech and language development, yet this is precisely the age at which children are very difficult to assess using conventional hearing tests,”
- UZ Leuven neemt als eerste ziekenhuis ter wereld nieuwe gehoortechnologie in gebruik die via hersengolven meet hoe goed kinderen spraak verwerken. Dat is een belangrijke stap voor jonge kinderen met gehoorverlies, bij wie klassieke gehoortesten vaak nog moeilijk zijn. Kinderen hoeven tijdens de test zelf niets te doen. Ze krijgen een muts met sensoren op het hoofd en kijken ongeveer een halfuur naar een animatiefilm. Ondertussen meten de sensoren de hersenactiviteit. 💬 "Voor het eerst kunnen we ook bij onze allerkleinste
- Leuvense start-up Brainphonics pioniert met gehoortest via hersengolvenDe Leuvense start-up Brainphonics heeft een gehoortest ontwikkeld die via hersengolven functioneert. Het UZ Leuven zal die als eerste ziekenhuis gaan gebruiken, maar de ambities zijn groter. 'We spreken met ziekenhuizen in Duitsland, Italië en de Verenigde Staten.'
De Tijd Ondernemen · 23 Oct 2026
- Good neighbours are worth getting to know! For our latest HealthTech mission, we headed to La Grande Région - more specifically Wallonia and Luxembourg - where strong healthcare networks sit just across the border. 10 things we seriously loved about our trip! ⬇️❤️ 1️⃣ Walloon healthtech, straight from the source. Interactive sessions with Bridge2Health, Ignity, BioWin and CHU de Liège gave our founders a closer look at the local ecosystem. 2️⃣ The network was networking. We met investors like Wallonie Entreprendre, partners such
- CORGEE wins the HWL2026 Visitors’ Choice Award! What a great way to wrap up Healthcare Week Luxembourg 2026! 🇱🇺 We’re so proud to receive the HWL Visitors’ Choice Award, which recognizes the innovation that received the highest cumulative score from Healthcare Week Luxembourg visitors. The awards were presented by Marc Berna, Vice-President of the Fédération des Hôpitaux Luxembourgeois, and Liners Françoise, Director of Health Technologies at the Ministry of the Economy. Our co-founder & CEO Ben Somers had the pleasure of
- Earlier this week, the CORGEE system was featured in three separate talks at the OMAI conference in Zurich (Objective Measures in Auditory Implants). The presentations highlighted the use of Neural Speech Tracking (NST) as implemented on the CORGEE system as a new clinical technique to objectively assess speech processing. 🦻 Objective outcomes were shown for a broad range of hearing prostheses, from clinical trial data with a large pediatric hearing aid user cohort (Sam Denys) to real-time implementation with pediatric cochlear
- Now that the first CORGEE hearing test systems are finding their way to clinical impact, we are looking to expand our commercial team! Brainphonics is looking for a full-time, growth-oriented team member to help transform a validated innovation into a global success story. This is not a typical sales job, it’s about building foundations for scalable growth and long-term relationships. You’ll work closely with the founders in a small and agile team, with a lot of freedom and ownership. 👉 Are you (or do you know) the perfect
- We’re happy to be featured in the latest edition of NKO Mag, the magazine for ENT specialists published by Lapperre. In the interview, our founder Ben Somers was invited to talk about how Brainphonics is rethinking objective hearing assessments by using natural speech stimuli instead of artificial sounds, making the test more representative of real-life hearing and especially child-friendly. As a young startup, it’s encouraging to see a well-known hearing care brand giving visibility to science and innovation in the field. A big
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