Ixi To launch the world’s first autofocus glasses, funding is raised $ 36.5 million which can dynamically correct the vision.
IXEI is an Espu, Finland-based startup with back from Amazon and others. It wants to recreate glasses as a technique-managed lifestyle accessory for modern consumers, not as a medical tool.
The company aims to create an eyewear that provides optimal vision in every situation. Using state-of-the-art technology, ixi glasses wisely adapt to their eye movements, automatically focusing to help you look at the more-shape-everyone with beautiful-designed frames. Their first generation product is currently
Development, with more details to follow close to launch.
Inhibiting $ 200 billion global iwear market, the technology of IXI will provide a broad area in a product that works like nature to work.
The company is creating a new category of eyewear, characterizing unique real-time and ultra-lo-power eye tracking and state-of-the-art dynamic lens technology. Its design-first mentality means these glasses
Are not just intelligent – they are designed to be worn.
The investment was led by London -based investment fund plural, which had the participation of Tesi, HeartCore, Fov Ventures and Byfounders; French private equity firm Eurezo; And German investment company Tiny Supercomputer. IXI’s current investors, including Amazon Alexa Fund, Maki.VC and First Fellow, Firstminute Capital, David Helgson, Ilka Pananen, John Lindforce and Bragill Brothers, also participated in the round.
The new funding will enable the product development of IXI adaptive eyewear; Closing commercial operations and putting the product in the hands of consumers.
The IXI was founded in 2021 by Nico Eden (CEO) and Vile Maitinn (Chief Algorithm Officer). Eiden and Miettinen established the first industry-defined mixed reality company Varajo (which makes products for advanced VR users including astronauts, pilots and nuclear power plant operators).
This enterprise was born of a shared frustration, which people are forced to talk about traditional progressive lenses: the narrow area of view, peripheral deformation, and clearly difficult to see at different distances.
The experience of founders in advanced optics and eye-tracking solutions inspired him to create a new kind of eyewear that really resolves the challenge of vision improvement and frees people from poor sight, without compromising on design. As the age of the global population, there is a diagnosis of increase in presbopia and millions of people make significant compromises in multi-focal vision, already transforming a widespread challenge into a magnificent global issue.
IXI CEO Nico Eden said in a statement, “Ivier is the oldest weary in the world, which has been in the ejaculation for centuries during science, design and craftsmanship. It is being said that it is incredible that we are not seeing more technical leaps, which are forced to force the world, who are supported by investors who are looking forward to this opportunity, we are ready to define the opportunity, we are ready to define again. What can be the ievier. “
Stan Tamkivi, a partner of Plural, said in a statement, “The rare European hardware expertise of Nico, Vile and the team puts them to the forefront of advanced optics and eye trekking. They are beautiful, literally creating invisible technology, which will improve human eyesight in the end, but we are all working for the world.”
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