Tech Company Financing Transactions

PixelOptics Funding Round

PixelOptics, based in Roanoke, received $465 thousand in investment from Life Science Angels.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
10/19/2005
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$465,000
Round
Series A
Investors

Life Science Angels (Anne Degheest)

Proceeds Purpose
The angel money is budgeted to fund operations costs until the Series A which is expected to go towards the engineering of PixelOptics' Electro-active Converging Lens platform into wearable glasses. The technology aims to address presbyopia, the near universal weakening of the eyes which accompanies middle age.

Company Information

Company Status
Out of Business
Industry
Medical Devices & Instruments
Mailing Address
5241 Valleypark Drive
Roanoke, VA 24019
USA
Email Address
Overview
PixelOptics, Inc. intends to impact the $54 billion global optical vision care industry, with its solidly patented electro-active optics technology platform; PixelOptics has invented and is developing dynamic and intelligent optics for use in spectacle lenses for the correction of presbyopia (loss of near focus after the age of 40+).
Profile
PixelOptics LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
PixelOptics Company Twitter Account
Company News
PixelOptics News
Facebook
PixelOptics on Facebook
YouTube
PixelOptics on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Brett Craig
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Chief Technical Officer
Bill Kokonaski
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Founder
Ronald Blum
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VP - Operations
Robert Hall
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