EyeFocus Accelerator, the world's first tech accelerator focussed on startups looking at problems associated with preventing, curing, and living with eye disease and blindness. It will launch in early 2015, based between Berlin and London. EyeFocus is fully independent, and sponsored by Bayer, Zeiss Ventures and Peppermint Ventures. It will bring together experts from the digital health startup space, investment, and ophthalmology to promote innovation in a huge market that is in need of disruptive products. Globally, 280m people are visually impaired, and 39m totally blind. 80% of eye disease can be cured, but innovation is required to help diagnose and treat it.
Location: Germany, Berlin
Investment Type: Accelerator
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| 10.01.2017 | 5 Startups Helping the Visually Impaired | Tech advancements fall into two general categories: Those that help rich people solve problems that barely existed in the first place — Uber for yachts, anyone? — and those that address meaningful social issues like homeless shelters or foo... |
| 13.11.2014 | EyeFocus Accelerator Launches In Berlin To Focus On Eye-care Startups | A new startup accelerator launch in Berlin this week. But while there are accelerators dotted all over Berlin, this one will be ‘laser-focused’ on startups in the area of the human eye. The EyeFocus Accelerator claims to be world’s first ac... |