Smart Vision Labs was founded in 2013 by Yaopeng Zhou and Marc Albanese. Yaopeng and Marc met more than 10 years ago while developing a scanning laser ophthalmoscope in a joint program between the Schepens Eye Research Institute and Boston University.
After winning the NYU Stern New Venture and Founder.org competitions in 2013 and the $1M Powerful Answers award from Verizon in early 2014, Yaopeng and Marc began to work in earnest on creating the company's flagship smartphone-based vision exam device. With their combined expertise in engineering, optics, and business, they are building a company that will revolutionize the global vision care industry.
Today, Yaopeng, Marc, and the rest of the Smart Vision Labs team are working to make their technology accessible to one billion people across the globe in need of eye care.
After winning the NYU Stern New Venture and Founder.org competitions in 2013 and the $1M Powerful Answers award from Verizon in early 2014, Yaopeng and Marc began to work in earnest on creating the company's flagship smartphone-based vision exam device. With their combined expertise in engineering, optics, and business, they are building a company that will revolutionize the global vision care industry.
Today, Yaopeng, Marc, and the rest of the Smart Vision Labs team are working to make their technology accessible to one billion people across the globe in need of eye care.
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +1 212-796-6124
Total raised: $6.1M
Founded date: 2013
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | RED SEA VE... | redseavent... |
| 26.10.2022 | Techstars | techstars.... |
| - | Connectivi... | connectivi... |
| - | TYLT Ventu... | tyltventur... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 22.06.2015 | Series A | $6.1M | - |
Mentions in press and media 13
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| 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... |
| 24.06.2015 | Smart Vision Labs Raises $6.1M Series A | NEW YORK, NY, Smart Vision Labs, Inc., announced today that it closed a $6.1M Series A round led by Techstars Ventures. >> Click here for more funding data on Smart Vision Labs >> To export Smart Vision Labs funding data to ... |
| 23.06.2015 | Smart Vision Labs Closes $6.1M Series A Funding | Smart Vision Labs, Inc., a New York City developer of a smartphone-based autorefractor, closed a $6.1M Series A funding round. The round was led by Techstars Ventures with participation from Heritage Group, Connectivity Capital, and Red Sea... |
| 22.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 22, 2015 | Dollar Shave Club raised $75M; Portworx debuted $8.5M; Dropoff scored $7M Dollar Shave Club, a subscription commerce company that home-delivers personal grooming products, raised a $75 million Series D funding round.The funding came from ex... |
| 22.06.2015 | Smart Vision Labs gets $6.1M for iPhone-enabled vision testing device | New York City-based Smart Vision Labs, which has developed a smartphone-based autorefractor for vision testing, raised $6.1 million in a round led by Techstars Ventures with participation from Heritage Group, Connectivity Capital, and Red S... |
| 22.06.2015 | Bringing Eye Exams To The Palm Of A Doctor’s Hand, Smart Vision Raises $6.1 Million | Commercializing a new tool to bring the basic eye exam into the palm of a doctor’s hand could save the eyesight of nearly 1 billion people worldwide. That’s the goal that Zhou Yaopeng and Marc Albanese, two former photonics researchers who ... |
| 12.12.2014 | Meet the design company behind some of the country’s coolest hardware startups | Likuma Labs is a two-man team based at Washington Avenue’s NextFab that’s behind some of the coolest hardware startups out. They designed the hardware component to Biomeme’s smartphone diagnostic lab. Same for Smart Vision Labs, the New Yor... |
| 03.07.2014 | Which early stage health IT companies won Pilot Health Tech NYC? | Smartphone eye exam Smart Vision Labs developed a smartphone attachment for vision tests in a nice piece of game-changing technology that could increase access to eye exams dramatically. Its Smart Aberrometer uses a phone’s flashlight and c... |
| 29.05.2014 | Next Class of NYU Summer Launchpad Accelerator to Start Monday | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints The semester may be over, but some student entrepreneurs at New York University are about to head back to class. A 10-week summer accelerator for recent grads of NYU kicks off... |
| 03.04.2014 | Verizon's giving $1M to world-changing startups in education, health, & more | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Verizon seems to have caught the startup competit... |
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