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Architects: Small & Medium Size Business (SMBs), Product Development, De-Risking, Validation, Building Niche & Emerging Markets
Architects: Eye, Ocular, Optometry, Ophthalmology, Vision Health Companies

Avedro, Inc

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*Key People: Avredo
2019: Glaukos and Avedro Announce Definitive Acquisition Agreement
Also participating in the funding were previous investors Prism VentureWorks, De Novo VenturesbizWatch,Flagship Ventures, Borealis Ventures, and Echelon VenturesbizWatch
Avedro is developing a procedure called Keraflex to correct vision by reshaping the surface of the cornea with focused heat.
Avedro raises $25M to expand in Europe and seek U.S. FDA clearance (2011)
Avedro's vision-correction devices hook $43M Series D
Created and patented a device to correct vision by reshaping the cornea without incision.
Developing systems for biomechanically strengthening and modifying the cornea.
Finance & Acquisition: Avredo
Industry: Medical Devices & Equipment Sub-Industry: Surgical Devices
Organization & Developments: Avredo
Series C financing round led by SCP Vitalife and Aperture Venture Partners
The company is commercializing a vision-correction technique that uses a pulse of microwave energy to flatten the cornea to treat myopia and other conditions, as an alternative to Lasik surgery.
The technology has its roots in research done at Dartmouth College in the early 2000s.
Waltham, Massachusetts