Vivid Vision is a San Francisco medical technology company that turns virtual reality headsets into tools for vision care. Founded in 2014 by programmer James Blaha, who built the first prototype to treat his own lazy eye, the company started with VR games for amblyopia and strabismus and now runs two lines: a clinical and at-home vision therapy suite used in clinics across 50+ countries, and Vivid Vision Perimetry (VVP), a VR-based visual field test being adopted as a digital endpoint in pharmaceutical clinical trials for glaucoma, AMD, and geographic atrophy.
Matthias Hofmann is the co-founder and CEO of Eyebot, a Boston-based company building self-serve vision-test kiosks that deliver a 90-second refractive exam and pair users with a tele-optometrist. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech, did postdoctoral optics work at Harvard Medical School, and was an early engineer at MIT spinout EyeNetra before starting Eyebot in 2021 with Jack Moldave. In August 2025 Eyebot raised a $20M Series A led by General Catalyst.
PlenOptika is a Cambridge, Massachusetts medical device company that makes QuickSee, a handheld autorefractor that measures a person's eyeglass prescription in about ten seconds using wavefront aberrometry and machine-learning algorithms. Spun out of the Madrid-MIT M+Vision fellowship in 2014, the company set out to close the gap on uncorrected refractive error, a problem affecting more than a billion people worldwide. Its portable, clinic-quality device has been used by vision professionals and NGOs on over 5 million patients in more than 45 countries - and even flew aboard SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission as the first handheld autorefraction device used in space.
Shivang R. Dave is the co-founder and CEO of PlenOptika, a Cambridge, Massachusetts medical-device company behind QuickSee, a handheld autorefractor that measures eyeglass prescriptions in about 10 seconds using wavefront aberrometry. A bioengineer with a PhD in bioengineering and nanotechnology, Dave co-invented the device during the Madrid-MIT M+Vision fellowship and has grown PlenOptika from a four-fellow research team into an international company whose technology has helped correct vision for over 7 million people across 60+ countries, especially in low-resource settings.
EyeQue Corporation is a Newark, California digital-health company that turns an ordinary smartphone into a personal vision-testing lab. Built on optical technology licensed from MIT, its small clip-on devices and apps let people measure their own refractive error, pupillary distance and reading numbers at home for a fraction of the cost of a clinic visit, then use those results to order glasses online. Founded in 2015 by physicist John Serri and Zenni Optical's Tibor Laczay, EyeQue has won multiple CES Innovation Awards and raised more than $57 million to make eye care accessible to people who can't easily reach an eye doctor.
CommuniCare+OLE is a nonprofit network of federally qualified health centers serving Napa, Solano, and Yolo counties in Northern California. Formed in 2023 by the merger of OLE Health and CommuniCare Health Centers - two organizations that both opened their doors in 1972 - it delivers comprehensive medical, dental, behavioral health, substance use, nutrition, optometry, and pharmacy care to more than 70,000 patients across 17 sites, regardless of insurance status, immigration status, or ability to pay.