Fierce Healthcare June 6, 2024
Startup Eyebot aims to bring 21st-century innovation to vision care to make eye exams more accessible to people.
The company, founded in March 2021, develops kiosks, what the company called terminals, that perform automated, self-serve vision tests in as quickly as 90 seconds and can immediately provide prescriptions for corrective eyewear.
Matthias Hofmann, Ph.D., Eyebot founder and CEO, says it’s the first “push-button vision testing technology.” The technology delivers accurate eye prescriptions directly at the point-of-sale, eliminating the traditional barriers within the corrective eyewear industry and paving the way for an enhanced retail experience, he noted.
Eyebot secured $6 million in a seed funding round led by AlleyCorp and Ubiquity Ventures with participation from Humba Ventures, Susa Ventures, Village Global,...