Elif Bayındır is the co-founder and CEO of Beynex, an AI-powered digital brain health platform focused on the early detection and longitudinal monitoring of cognitive decline in healthy individuals. With a background in physics and data science, for most of her career, she has worked at the intersection of data, modelling, and real-world systems. What motivated her to start Beynex was a simple but persistent gap she kept seeing. While we generate enormous amounts of health-related data, we still struggle to turn it into meaningful insight. Especially in areas like brain health, where change happens slowly and subtly. Beynex works on making cognition measurable over time. Their platform combines clinically validated cognitive assessments with lifestyle and behavioural data to support early signals of cognitive change.
Today, Beynex has reached over 100,000 registered users and is being used across clinical programmes, corporate wellbeing, and pension-linked initiatives. Alongside this, they run active clinical research across multiple neurological conditions.
For Elif, joining the DT Launch Pad programme has been particularly valuable at this stage of progress. “Beynex is moving from validation and pilots toward more repeatable, institutional business models, and DT Launch Pad creates a space that supports this kind of thinking and reflection. What I appreciate most about the programme is its practical depth. The mentoring sessions go beyond high-level advice and focus on fundamental questions we face as deep tech founders: how to position scientific evidence for institutional buyers, how to balance speed with credibility, and how to think about scalability without losing substance. The peer-to-peer sessions are equally valuable; learning from founders operating in very different domains widens your thinking and challenges assumptions you didn’t realise you were making. From my perspective as a data-driven founder, one recurring theme in the programme resonates strongly: technology alone is never the product. The real work lies in aligning data, evidence, operations, and incentives with how institutions actually make decisions. Beynex is at a stage where we are focusing on this and translating scientific and data-driven work into structures that can support sustainable growth. Being part of DT Launch Pad during this phase has provided valuable structure and perspective. I appreciate the open and thoughtful environment the programme fosters. I’m looking forward to continuing the programme, learning from the cohort, and contributing our experience back into the community.”
We’re excited to see the impact that Elif’s training in the DT Launch Pad programme will have on Beynex.
