Bringing access to vision through smartphone-based technology.
Location: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +1 617-684-5680
Total raised: $7M
Founded date: 2011
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Khosla Imp... | khoslaimpa... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 29.07.2014 | - | $4M | - |
| 28.06.2013 | - | $2M | - |
Mentions in press and media 14
| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.07.2016 | Germany’s Brillen.de raises $49M from TCV to take its eyewear marketplace international | Brillen.de, a bootstrapped, family-run company in Germany that has built an online business selling its own eyewear by tapping into a network of independent and local opticians, has raised €45 million ($49 million) in its first-ever VC fund... |
| 27.07.2015 | Opternative’s Online Eye Exam Gets You A Glasses Prescription From Home | The annoyance of going to the doctor keeps tons of people from finding out if they need glasses or updating their prescription. But it turns out you don’t need one of those giant multi-lens machines to do an eye exam. Opternative has passed... |
| 01.08.2014 | Boston Tech Roundup: EyeNetra, ViralGains, MetraTech, HubSpot | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Here’s a smattering of deal and departure news to catch up on for the end of the week: —EyeNetra, an MIT spinout that is developing vision-testing hardware for smartphones, ha... |
| 30.07.2014 | EyeNetra raises $4M for eye diagnostic smartphone peripheral | Somerville, Massachusetts-based eye diagnostic tool maker EyeNetra raised $4 million from one investor, according to an SEC filing. This brings EyeNetra's total funding to at least $7 million. Previously disclosed EyeNetra investors include... |
| 29.07.2014 | EyeNetra raises $4M for smartphone vision test to detect easily treated eye problems | The company also is developing a data analytics component to identify patterns and trends to develop specific recommendations for each patient. Although it is not intended as a replacement for an eye exam, the company sees its biggest value... |
| 25.02.2014 | Opternative Is The First Online Eye Exam That Writes You A Prescription | “Do I need glasses?” is a question you usually have to get an in-person eye test to answer. But today, online eye exam provider Opternative is coming out of stealth to get you a doctor’s prescription for glasses straight from your computer ... |
| 01.07.2013 | MIT Media Lab spinoff EyeNetra raises $2M | OneSight's Mission Trip - Nairobi, Kenya Somerville, Massachusetts-based EyeNetra, which has developed a mobile-enabled eye diagnostic tool raised $2 million in funding last week, according to an SEC filing. EyeNetra hopes to serve the 2.4 ... |
| 28.06.2013 | Vinod Khosla-backed smartphone diagnostic creating portable eye exam raises $2M | This is how the device works. A $2 clip-on eyepiece is placed on top of a cell phone. The user looks through the eye piece and aligns the displayed patterns by clicking buttons. The number of clicks required to bring the patterns into align... |
| 28.06.2013 | MIT Media Lab Spin-Out EyeNetra Raises $2M to Bring Glasses to the Masses | Nearly a year after raising $1 million, MIT Media Lab spin-out EyeNetra has raised another $2 million, bringing them one step closer to making optometry more accessible in the developing world. The Somerville startup, formerly based out of ... |
| 26.06.2012 | Hello World | I first came to USV one year ago, almost to the day, as a hackNY fellow. Fred, Brad and Albert gave a talk about venture capital, with a special emphasis on the New York tech ecosystem. I’ve been following them ever since. My name is Alexa... |
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