Meredith Perry

Meredith Perry (born August 5, 1989) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and scientist, most well-known for the invention of uBeam, a wireless charging system based on ultrasound. Perry is currently the co-founder and CEO of Elemind, a company developing noninvasive neurotechnology, and also serves on the Board of the J. Craig Venter Institute.

Career
Perry studied paleobiology and astrobiology at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted astrobiology research with the NASA Ames Research Center and the NASA Astrobiology Institute. She is a NASA Astrobiology Institute Research Scholarship Recipient and NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Recipient. She co-authored two astrobiology research papers with Christopher McKay of NASA Ames Research Center.

Perry won the University of Pennsylvania's Invention Competition, "PennVention" in 2011 for her ultrasonic wireless power transmission system, which she named "uBeam". Perry founded uBeam in 2011 and raised $40M from Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Mark Cuban, Marissa Mayer and other prominent investors. She stepped down as CEO in 2018 after the company moved from trying to build its own products to licensing its technology for other companies to use.

Perry announced through a tweet in 2019 that she is developing a new neurotechnology with Ed Boyden, and subsequently announced in 2020 a new company co-founded for this purpose, Elemind Technologies. On February 6, 2024, Elemind emerged from stealth mode, with Perry saying that the company's wearable device can "stop tremor for people with essential tremors” as well as "induce sleep, faster than leading sleep drugs. [And] we can induce memory formation and increase pain threshold" but that the company was not ready to release an image of the device.

Awards and recognition
Perry was recognized as one of Fast Companys "Most Creative People", and has been included in Fortunes “40 Under 40” Mobilizers, Forbes “30 Under 30”, and Vanity Fair's “The New Establishment”. Perry is the recipient of Elle magazine's Genius Award.