Sensorial

What Sensorial does

Sensorial is a Brazilian neuroscience services firm founded in 2016 by three academics with doctoral training at the University of São Paulo (USP) and the University of Göttingen. The São Paulo-based company is led by Milton Ávila (CEO), Victor Cavallari, and Caio Moreira (Director of Science and Technology), whose combined credentials span FMRP-USP, FFCLRP-USP, Cogmaster Paris, Karolinska Institute, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sensorial's stated mission is to translate neuroscience research into practical applications for human health, behavior, and performance, drawing on affiliated academic institutions including USP, UFMG, UNICAMP, and selected international research centers.

The company's primary commercial vehicle is the Neuro Network symposium, an in-person scientific event organized annually in São Paulo that aggregates healthcare professionals, sports and performance specialists, and academic researchers. The 2026 edition (the third iteration), scheduled for August 1, 2026 at the UNIP Indianópolis campus, structures programming along two thematic axes — sport/performance and health — covering sleep, memory, neuroplasticity, cognitive stimulation, longevity, and neuromodulation. Speaker recruitment leverages the founders' academic networks, including domestic ties to USP/UFMG/UNICAMP and international affiliations that surface international plenary voices. Adjacent attendee cohorts include geriatricians, e-sports psychologists, and health-plan administrators, consistent with the founders' research interests in cognitive aging and applied performance.

The business model is event-driven and professional-services oriented. Revenue mechanics flow through ticketed event attendance via the Sympla platform, combined with event sponsorships from UNIP, Supera, FVEE, and the Associação Brasileira de Gerontologia (ABG). Customer segments are organized vertically into healthcare professionals, sports and performance professionals, health managers, and students/researchers. Sensorial is privately held, has between 11 and 50 employees, and has not disclosed any outside institutional or venture funding in the available material.

Name

Sensorial

Legal name

Sensorial

Website

https://sensorial.life

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sensorial is a Brazilian neuroscience services firm founded by academics from USP and the University of Göttingen that operates the Neuro Network symposium series, translating neuroscience research into applied content for healthcare and sports performance professionals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Neuroscience Education and Professional Events

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Medical, Scientific & Healthcare Congress Organizers (THAHACAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Sponsorship, Exhibitor & Partnership Management Services (THAHACAK), Conference Communications, Marketing & Community Engagement (THAHACAN)

Keywords

• Neuroscience applications
• Scientific symposium events
• Cognitive performance training
• Sports performance science
• Neuromodulation education

Headquarters

HQ city

Ribeirão Prêto

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Event-based services: Revenue appears to be generated through organized scientific events, workshops, and symposiums targeting healthcare and sports performance professionals. The Neuro Network 2026 event features registration through Sympla ticketing platform with limited spots available.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Sensorial develops and delivers neuroscience-based content, training, and community experiences focused on health, behavior, and human performance optimization. Its flagship commercial offering is the annual Neuro Network scientific symposium (e.g., Neuro Network 2026 – III Simpósio Cérebro, Saúde e Performance), a one-day in-person event held in São Paulo that convenes healthcare professionals, sports performance specialists, researchers, and health managers for scientific plenaries, practical workshops, and networking on topics including sleep, memory, neuroplasticity, cognitive stimulation, neuromodulation, longevity, and high performance. The company monetizes the symposium through ticketed registrations and event sponsorships, while leveraging academic partnerships to deliver evidence-based content.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Neuro Network Annual Scientific Symposium One-day in-person scientific symposium featuring scientific plenaries, practical workshops, and high-level networking for Brazilian healthcare professionals, sports performance specialists, health managers, students, and researchers, covering topics such as sleep and memory, neuroplasticity, high performance, cognitive stimulation, longevity, and neuromodulation. The 2026 edition features confirmed speakers including Cleiton Lopes Aguiar (ICB-UFMG/Karolinska), Milton Ávila, Victor Cavallari, Caio Moreira, José Aníbal, Franco Lococo, Roni Chaim Mukamal, Angelo Otavio, Fernando Alves, Thais Bento Lima da Silva, and Paula Teixeira Fernandes.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• UNIPminorOthersUNIP (Universidade Paulista) is a sponsor of the Neuro Network 2026 event. The event is hosted at UNIP's Indianópolis campus in São Paulo.
• SuperaminorOthersSupera is a sponsor of the Neuro Network 2026 event. Thais Bento Lima da Silva serves as a scientific partner representing the Supera Method.
• FVEEminorOthersFVEE (Fórum Nacional de Educação e Epidemiologia) is a sponsor of the Neuro Network 2026 event.
• ABG - Associação Brasileira de GerontologiaminorOthersABG (Brazilian Gerontology Association) is a sponsor of the Neuro Network 2026 event. Thais Bento serves as scientific director of ABG.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Associação Brasileira de Gerontologia (ABG): Brazilian Gerontology Association, an existing Sensorial event sponsor and scientific partner. Comparable because it convenes Brazilian healthcare and longevity professionals around aging and cognitive-decline topics that overlap directly with Neuro Network's longevity, memory, and neuromodulation tracks.
• NeuroLeadership Institute: Global research-to-practice organization that translates neuroscience into performance, leadership, and wellbeing programs for enterprises. Comparable to Sensorial because it monetizes applied neuroscience through training, certification, and events aimed at the intersection of brain science and human performance, the same core theme Sensorial sells.
• Congresso Brasileiro de Neurociências: Brazilian Society for Neuroscience (SBN) annual congress, the country's flagship academic neuroscience meeting. Directly comparable because it organizes a national scientific congress in Brazil addressing overlapping neuroscience, cognition, and behavior themes for the same researcher and clinician audience Sensorial targets.
• SharpBrains: Independent market research and event firm focused on digital brain health, applied neuroscience, and cognitive performance. Comparable because it produces research reports, executive education, and conferences aimed at the same applied-neuroscience-for-performance niche that Sensorial's Neuro Network addresses.

Broad incumbents

• Brasil Game Show / Brazil Conferences: Brazilian conference organizer running multiple branded professional events across business, tech, and lifestyle verticals. Comparable because it operates the same recurring-event, sponsor-driven GTM in the Brazilian market, but lacks Sensorial's deep scientific/neuroscience specialization.
• Cognitive Neuroscience Society: US-based academic society running the annual CNS meeting focused on cognitive and behavioral neuroscience. Comparable because it organizes a flagship annual scientific congress in the same neuroscience sub-discipline Sensorial features (cognition, memory, neuroplasticity), but at a pure-research rather than applied-clinical scale.
• HSM Group: Brazil's largest high-content conference and executive education company (HSM Expo, HSM Summit, HSM University). Comparable because it operates the same event-driven, premium-knowledge-conference model targeting Brazilian professional audiences, but at far larger scale and across business/leadership topics rather than neuroscience.
• Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting: The world's largest neuroscience conference, drawing tens of thousands of researchers annually. Comparable as the dominant incumbent scientific congress in the same neuroscience content category, but operates globally and at academic scale rather than Sensorial's applied-clinical/sport niche.

Emerging players

• Mind & Life Institute: Non-profit convening organization that hosts dialogues and events bridging neuroscience with contemplative and human-performance traditions. Comparable because it produces interdisciplinary, scientist-led convenings on applied brain science aimed at practitioners, intersecting Sensorial's content themes of cognition, performance, and wellbeing.
• Mindsight Brasil (ABG / Supera-aligned cognitive training network): Brazilian cognitive-stimulation and brain-training franchise (Método Supera), already a Neuro Network sponsor. Comparable because it operates at the applied-neuroscience-for-health and performance intersection in Brazil, training clinicians and running events that directly overlap Sensorial's content themes of neuroplasticity and cognitive stimulation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/sensorialsports
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sensorialhealthtech

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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