Ana Maiques, CEO and co-founder of Barcelona-based neurotechnology company Neuroelectrics, has received the 2026 FEDEPE Award for Innovation and Female Entrepreneurship, recognising her contribution to advancing digital brain health technologies.
Neuroelectrics develops non-invasive brain monitoring and stimulation systems, combining neuroscience, artificial intelligence and medical hardware to support the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. The company operates from Barcelona and Boston and focuses on personalised therapies using wireless EEG and brain stimulation devices.
The award, presented by the Spanish Federation of Women Directors, Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs (FEDEPE), recognises leadership in innovation and entrepreneurship across Spain’s technology sector.
Ana Maiques was also nominated by IESE as one of the most influential entrepreneurs under 40 in Spain (2010) and received the EU Prize for Women Innovators from the European Commission in 2014 and one of the Most Inspiring Fifty Women in Europe.
Neuroelectrics received the Best Start-up in Health 2015 bye Wired UK magazine and in 2022 she was selected as Goldman Sachs Entrepreneur of the year. She spends her time between Barcelona and Boston.
Under Maiques’ leadership, Neuroelectrics has expanded internationally while advancing technologies designed to bring neuroscience-based treatments beyond research settings and into clinical practice and home-based care.
For example, the company’s technology is being used in research on brain function, road safety and human–machine interaction. Researchers recently used Neuroelectrics’ Enobio EEG system to compare brain activity during manual and autonomous driving, showing that even when a vehicle is driving itself, the brain remains actively engaged, with distinct neural patterns linked to attention, fatigue and readiness to intervene.
Neuroelectrics has also contributed to an open multimodal dataset combining EEG with five other physiological signals to help develop AI models that can detect cognitive workload, distraction, mind wandering and mental fatigue in complex real-world environments.
03.07.2026.
