Wearable device company founded in 2012 based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. The company was previously called Thalmic and changed their name to North in 2018.
Thalmic Labs (Myo) is a company that participated in the YC W13 cohort of Y Combinator and raised an estimated $135,632,011.Thalmic Labs sold the Myo Gesture Control Armband that measures and records electrical impulses given off by muscles using electromyography (EMG) sensors for the purpose of controlling other devices wirelessly with gestures and motion such as making a fist or stretching fingers out. The armband was used by a medical team at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, to give a patient more control over his prosthetic forearm.