Pinnacle Technology

What Pinnacle Technology does

Pinnacle Technology is a privately held US manufacturer founded in 1995 and headquartered in Lawrence, Kansas. The company specializes in building pre-clinical research instruments across five neuroscience modalities: EEG (electroencephalography), EMG (electromyography), optogenetics, FSCV (fast-scan cyclic voltammetry), and sleep research. Its customer base is implicitly the academic, government, and pharmaceutical neuroscience research community that requires validated electrophysiology and stimulation tools for animal-model studies.

The company's product portfolio addresses signal acquisition, neural stimulation, and monitoring workflows used in basic and translational neuroscience laboratories. Specific product architecture, proprietary features, and underlying technology stacks are not disclosed in the available source data, limiting deeper technical assessment. The business has operated continuously for approximately three decades, suggesting an established installed base within its niche, though no customer counts, distribution data, or technology partnerships are documented in the source material.

Revenue mechanics, pricing models, and go-to-market channels are not disclosed. The company remains privately held and founder-led — Donna Johnson serves as founder, president, and CEO — with a small employee base of 11-50 people, consistent with a focused, specialized instrumentation business rather than a high-growth scale-up. No funding rounds, acquisitions, partnerships, or strategic transactions are documented in the available inputs, so financial trajectory and capital structure cannot be characterized beyond what headcount and tenure imply.

Name

Pinnacle Technology

Website

https://pinnaclet.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Pinnacle Technology, founded in 1995 and based in Lawrence, Kansas, manufactures pre-clinical research instruments for EEG, EMG, optogenetics, FSCV, and sleep research, serving academic and pharmaceutical neuroscience laboratories worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pre-Clinical Neuroscience Research Instruments

NAICS

Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing (334510), Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (334516)

SIC

Electromedical & Electrotherapeutic Apparatus (3845), Laboratory Analytical Instruments (3826)

akta.pro primary industry

In Vivo Pharmacology (Efficacy/PD Models) (HLAGAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Neurological Monitoring (EEG, Seizure/Sleep/Neuro Wearables) (HLAHACAE), Biosensors & Lab-on-Chip (BioMEMS) (HDAHALAK)

Keywords

• Pre-clinical research tools
• Neuroscience research instruments
• EEG recording systems
• Optogenetics equipment
• Sleep research devices

Headquarters

HQ city

Lawrence

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

Pinnacle Technology manufactures pre-clinical research instruments used in neuroscience and physiology laboratories. Its product lines support EEG (electroencephalography), EMG (electromyography), optogenetics, FSCV (fast-scan cyclic voltammetry), and sleep research workflows. Customers are research scientists conducting animal-model and basic-science studies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• EEG Research Systems Electroencephalography (EEG) recording hardware and telemetry systems used by pre-clinical neuroscience researchers for brain signal acquisition in animal models.
• EMG Research Systems Electromyography (EMG) measurement instruments for pre-clinical muscle and neuromuscular physiology studies.
• Optogenetics Tools Hardware platforms supporting optogenetics experiments, including light delivery and integrated control systems for light-driven manipulation of neural circuits in animal research.
• FSCV (Fast-Scan Cyclic Voltammetry) Systems Electrochemical detection instrumentation for fast-scan cyclic voltammetry, used to measure neurotransmitter dynamics in pre-clinical research.
• Sleep Research Systems Instrumentation and recording systems engineered for pre-clinical sleep and circadian rhythm studies in animal models.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• emkaBIOPAC (formerly emka Technologies): emkaBIOPAC provides non-invasive preclinical telemetry and instrumentation for cardiovascular, respiratory and CNS safety pharmacology studies. Direct overlap in the rodent research instrumentation category served by Pinnacle.
• ADInstruments: ADInstruments produces PowerLab data acquisition systems and LabChart software for life-science research, covering EEG, EMG, ECG and a broad preclinical/clinical physiology menu. Overlapping catalog and customer base with Pinnacle.
• Tucker-Davis Technologies (TDT): TDT builds electrophysiology recording and stimulation systems for animal research, including multi-channel neural acquisition and optogenetic hardware. Highly comparable specialty competitor in neuroscience instrumentation.
• BIOPAC Systems, Inc. BIOPAC manufactures preclinical data acquisition and analysis systems for human and animal physiology (EEG, EMG, ECG, EOG). It is the closest direct competitor to Pinnacle in pre-clinical electrophysiology and shares the same academic/biopharma buyer set.
• World Precision Instruments (WPI): WPI supplies electrophysiology equipment, microelectrodes, biosensors, and laboratory instruments to research customers. Comparable specialty life-science instrument maker with shared neuroscience buyer base.
• TSE Systems GmbH: TSE Systems manufactures behavioral and metabolic phenotyping systems for rodent research, including EEG/EMG sleep and activity platforms. Comparable niche preclinical research instrument vendor.
• Neuralynx, Inc. Neuralynx designs high-channel-count electrophysiology recording systems used in rodent and primate neuroscience labs. Direct competitor in pre-clinical neural signal acquisition.

Broad incumbents

• Compumedics Limited: Compumedics develops clinical and research sleep-diagnostic / EEG platforms. Overlaps with Pinnacle's sleep-research product line but at the clinical-research boundary, with a broader portfolio.
• Natus Medical Incorporated: Natus is a large diversified neurology and newborn-care device company whose neurodiagnostic EEG equipment competes with research-grade EEG systems. Larger incumbent with adjacent (clinical) end markets.
• Harvard Apparatus: Harvard Apparatus offers a wide catalog of life-science research tools (surgical, infusion, organ-bath and physiology products). Broader portfolio than Pinnacle but serves the same academic research buyer with overlapping physiology instrumentation.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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