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Federico Julian Acosta Gonzalez

Custom Surgical GmbH was funded in August of 2019 in Munich, Germany. We focus our work on the development of smartphone applications and optical systems for ophthalmology. During the past 2 and a half years we have reached more than 60 countries with our flagship product, the MicroREC. The MicroREC is an optical system that […]

Arthur Cummings

TearClear is a clinical stage ophthalmic pharmaceutical business that is transforming trusted drugs into best-in-class therapies.  The company’s glaucoma portfolio offers patients preservative-free doses delivered directly from preserved solutions.  The lead candidate is nearing Pivotal Study completion for approval in the US with three candidates swiftly following. Current preserved medications for chronic eye diseases are […]

Established in 2016, NovaSight is a growing medical device company with a mission to prevent vision impairments among pediatric patients using eye tracking based technology in novel diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive solutions, especially designed for the unique needs of children. NovaSight offers two flagship products both ideally positioned for objective diagnostics and remote home treatment: […]

SP.eye has been developed by an Ophthalmologist to improve the productivity, safety and comfort of intravitreal injections.  A finalist at the EURETINA innovation showcase in 2014, SP.eye is now available as a CE marked device worldwide, with over 100,000 injections succesfully carried out across the UK and Europe. SP.eye is compatible with all injection systems, […]

LinkoCare is a knowledge-intensive private limited company registered and operating in Sweden with the primary mission of commercialization of bioengineered corneal implants to help restore sight to millions of people around the world suffering from corneal blindness, low vision, and refractive error such as presbyopia. The company’s mandate is to establish itself as a world […]

Reinhart Poprawe

AIXLens GmbH was founded to develop a new and innovative way to manufacture Intraocular Lenses purely by LASER-Technology. Today, we are able to shape fully bespoke and customized IOLs (any free-form) and finally polish the IOL touchless to a roughness in the single nm-range resulting in or better than classically desired optical quality. Wear-off, setup- […]

Michael Mrochen

Allotex, a private company developing the TransForm Corneal Allograft (TCA) for the treatment of presbyopia with up comming market entry in Europe and initiating US FDA clinical trials The company was founded by Dr. David Muller and Professor Michael Mrochen in Boston, MA. The TransForm corneal allograft for presbyopia has a diameter of 2.65 mm […]

Femto-Masking  Femto-Masking offers an elegant solution to non-invasively generate small apertures in IOLs, using a femtosecond laser system. By applying a certain configuration of laser pulses (energy, spot size, spot distance, repetition rate) depending on the lens material, a photo chemical reaction can be induced which makes the material optically impermeable (blackening). Mechanism of Action  […]

Francois Salin

Ilasis aims at empowering surgeons and democratizing state of the art technologies for all. Based on the need expressed by Professor Touboul of the Bordeaux University Hospital (France), Ilasis has designed and manufactured the Helix laser scalpel, a femtosecond laser system for capsulotomy in cataract surgery.  This frugal system offers a unique flawless cutting solution, […]

Florent Costantini

  glasspop is the first and only solution that allows a patient to do his subjective refraction on his own. Our algorithm will drive the subjective exam of a patient in 5 minutes automatically without anyone else in the room. The patient is asked to answer a Tumbling “E” letters chart thanks to a joystick […]