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Built by engineers. Measured by evidence.

MSTFA Industries LLC is a Texas technology company developing biomedical instruments, predictive signal-processing systems, and the clinical data infrastructure that connects them.

Development status — all three device programs are pre-clinical. Models are trained on public reference datasets. No instrument is FDA cleared or available for clinical use.
Why We Exist

Medicine observes in snapshots. Disease develops in the interval.

A spirometry curve captured once a year. An EEG recorded only after the second seizure. A swallow study performed only in hospital. Between these observations, physiology drifts — and the early signal is lost.

We design instruments that move clinical-grade measurement out of the clinic and into continuous use, and we build the data infrastructure that makes those measurements legible to the physician. The portfolio is deliberately narrow: respiratory function, neural monitoring, swallowing analysis, and the FHIR-native data plane underneath them.

Operating Principles

How decisions get made here.

P/01

Evidence before claims

Every program is anchored to published literature and reference datasets before a single promotional sentence is written. Validation status is stated plainly: all three devices are pre-clinical.

P/02

One platform, many instruments

The three devices standardize on a shared microcontroller platform, shared electrode chemistry, and one signal-processing methodology. Engineering effort compounds instead of fragmenting.

P/03

The data belongs to the patient

Every record in our infrastructure is exportable through a standard FHIR interface. Retention must be earned through usefulness, not enforced through lock-in.

P/04

Regulatory clarity from day one

Each program carries an explicit regulatory posture on the FDA 510(k) pathway, with ISO 13485 quality management planned for manufacture. No ambiguity, no overstatement.

Leadership

Three founders. Defined ownership.

Founder / CEO

Arsal Mustafa

Sets company direction, clinical strategy, and the advisory network. Drives the regulatory and validation roadmap across all programs. Affiliated with the University of Houston.

Strategy · clinical advisory · regulatory · fundraising
Co-founder / CTO

Ibrahim Shajahan

Owns hardware, firmware, signal processing, and machine learning across the device portfolio, and the Plexus data infrastructure. Responsible for the shared engineering platform underneath every instrument.

Hardware · firmware · DSP/ML · Plexus
CFO

Krishu Chabblani

Owns finance, unit economics, and capital planning across the portfolio — including the seed round structure and the non-dilutive SBIR track.

Finance · unit economics · capital planning
Clinical Advisory

Built alongside clinicians.

Dr. Ronald J. SwatzynaClinical advisor — qEEG / clinical neuroscience. PhD, LCSW, BCB, BCN. Director & Chief Scientist, Houston Neuroscience Brain Center. Concluded structured technical review of Neura's minimal-channel EEG methodology with a written endorsement (May 2026).
University of HoustonFounding affiliation. Academic advisors across signal processing and physiological standards; pathway for IRB-supervised validation studies.
Texas Medical CenterActive advisory outreach across Houston's medical institutions in neurology, pulmonology, and speech-language pathology.
Open positionsClinical advisors sought in pulmonology (Spira), speech-language pathology (Pharyna), and neurology (Neura). Discuss a collaboration.
Roadmap

Four stages, in order.

01

Foundation

Company formation, founding team, literature base, software prototypes, and the shared engineering platform. Complete.

02

Bench validation

First-party prototype validation across the portfolio; bench comparison against clinical reference instruments. The current raise funds this stage.

03

Clinical evidence

IRB-supervised validation studies through academic and clinical partners; structured clinician feedback loops.

04

Regulatory submission

FDA 510(k) pre-submission groundwork and filing, program by program, as evidence matures.