eye2you Converts Smartphones in Simple Medical Retina Scanners
- Jörn Menninger
- May 25, 2021
- 3 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
What Is This About?
eye2you transforms smartphones into medical retina scanners using AI to detect eye diseases, empowering general physicians to screen patients without specialized equipment. This interview covers how the health tech startup is democratizing eye care diagnostics through accessible mobile technology.
Introduction
eye2you transforms smartphones into medical retina scanners using AI, empowering general physicians to screen for eye diseases without specialized equipment. This interview covers how the health tech startup is democratizing access to ophthalmological diagnostics.
eye2you transforms smartphones into AI-powered retina scanners, enabling general physicians to screen for eye diseases without specialized equipment — democratizing ophthalmological diagnostics.
eye2you transforms smartphones into medical retina scanners using AI to detect eye diseases, empowering general physicians and caretakers.
This founder interview is part of our ongoing coverage of Scaleup Founder Interviews from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
The Founder
eye2you transforms smartphones into medical retina scanners using AI to detect eye diseases, empowering general physicians and caretakers. Startuprad.io brings you independent coverage of the key developments shaping the startup and venture capital landscape across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
We are talking to Jörn-Philipp Lies (https://www.linkedin.com/in/plies/) CEO and Co-Founder of eye2you (https://eye2you.ai/).
Philipp started out his professional life with an apprenticeship and moved to study at Technical University Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technische_Universit%C3%A4t_Darmstadt) in computer science and robotics.
While working on his final diploma thesis, he became interested in visual recognition and finally the eye. This led him to take on his Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen, studying how the brain processes visual information.
The Startup
The story of eye2you (https://eye2you.ai/) started at Korea University (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_University), with a project for development aid projects in Ethiopia. Now the company is incorporated in Tübingen Germany and works on AI algorithms to recognize diseases in pictures of the retina.
They are working on empowering general physicians, nurses, or caretakers to perform a basic checkups with their software. Groups at risk for retina diseases are people with high blood pressure or diabetes.
Here is an explainer video for more details:
Venture Capital Funding
The startup already closed the pre-seed funding round, currently having 5 FTEs and one working student.
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Further Readings / Additional Resources
University Tübingen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_T%C3%BCbingen
Max Planck Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Society
TU Darmstadt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technische_Universit%C3%A4t_Darmstadt
Ophthalmology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophthalmology
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What is this article about: eye2you Converts Smartphones in Simple Medical Retina Scanners?
eye2you transforms smartphones into medical retina scanners using AI to detect eye diseases, empowering general physicians to screen patients without specialized equipment. This interview covers how the health tech startup is democratizing eye care diagnostics through accessible mobile technology.
What are the main takeaways from this discussion?
eye2you transforms smartphones into medical retina scanners using AI, empowering general physicians to screen for eye diseases without specialized equipment. This interview covers how the health tech startup is democratizing access to ophthalmological diagnostics.
How does this topic connect to the broader startup ecosystem?
eye2you transforms smartphones into AI-powered retina scanners, enabling general physicians to screen for eye diseases without specialized equipment — democratizing ophthalmological diagnostics.
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