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The $99 Smart Glasses Taking On Ray-Ban Meta - Without the Camera
A 13-person Miami outfit is selling AI-powered smart glasses for a fraction of Ray-Ban Meta's price - by leaving out the one feature everyone else brags about.
eyewa
eyewa is the Middle East's largest omnichannel eyewear retailer, selling prescription glasses, sunglasses, blue light glasses and contact lenses through its e-commerce platform, mobile app and a growing network of physical stores across the GCC. Founded in Dubai in 2017 by former Bain consultants Anass Boumediene and Mehdi Oudghiri, the company pairs affordable in-house brands with technology like AI-powered virtual try-on, and reached roughly 150 stores before raising a $100M Series C led by General Atlantic in late 2024 to fund a 100-store expansion.
DIFF Eyewear
DIFF Eyewear is a Southern California charitable eyewear brand founded in 2014 that sells designer-quality sunglasses, blue-light and prescription glasses at accessible prices while donating vision care for every pair sold. Built on a buy-one-give-one model, DIFF pairs trend-driven, celebrity- and pop-culture-inspired collections (Disney, Star Wars, Harry Potter) with a philanthropic mission delivered through partners like Sightsavers, having funded well over a million pairs of reading glasses and eye exams for people in need.
Pair Eyewear
Pair Eyewear is a New York-based direct-to-consumer eyewear company that reinvented glasses as a customizable, collectible accessory. Its patented system pairs an affordable base frame with magnetic snap-on 'Top Frames' - over 1,000 designs spanning licensed collaborations with Disney, Marvel, the NFL, and The Met - so a single pair of glasses can change with your mood, outfit, or favorite team. Founded by Stanford grads Sophia Edelstein and Nathan Kondamuri in 2017, Pair has sold millions of Top Frames, built one of the most automated lens labs in the U.S., and raised roughly $148M to scale a recurring-revenue model in an industry long defined by buy-once-every-two-years inertia.