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Your gateway to the latest insights, resources, and updates from the forefront of retinal healthcare innovation. Explore our mission to prevent avoidable blindness, discover impactful stories, and access essential materials to share our journey of transforming ophthalmology through AI-driven solutions. Together, let’s shape the future of vision care.

deepeye Medical Introduction

Vision

Prevent 1 million people from blindness by 2030

Mission

Empowering ophthalmologists with AI-based therapy assistants to provide patient-specific retinal treatments, achieving optimal vision outcomes.

Founders

Manuel Opitz

I am an engineer and economist, both by education and conviction. My goal is to improve healthcare by digitalising repetitive processes and empower medical professionals to better treat their patients. To achieve this goal, I work on bringing together experts from multiple disciplines to tackle healthcare challenges in a team effort.
▫️Co-founded & led healthtech startup to EU & US launch
▫️8-digit amount raised
▫️Regular healthtech speaker (2x TEDx)

Ratko Petrovicz

Design innovative products that customers love !
▫️25 years software experience
▫️4 medical device startups in 15 years
▫️4 products e.g. ECG, EEG, US imaging

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Story

deepeye Medical emerged from one of the world's first tele-ophthalmic networks (IVI Portal Franziskus Münster), where human expert second opinions tripled outcomes (3x VA) and halved dropout rates (persistence) compared to other real-world studies.
Our AI mimics this proven clinical method to empower ophthalmologists to personalize anti-VEGF treatment faster, driving outcomes and adherence/persistence.

2011

Our medical co-founders establish one of the 1st tele-ophthalmic networks worldwide (Münster "Portal") to provide 2nd opinions on retinal therapy

2014

Digital study protocol (eCRF) to monitor success

2016

One of the 1st publications on improving therapy adherence + persistence (patient compliance)

2018

Start of using AI to analyse the growing therapy data with Prof. Reiner Kurzhals

2019

Publication of 1st results in tele-ophthalmic network (Münster "Portal") of better outcomes (s. graph) and more patients remaining in therapy compared to standard-of-care

2020

Presentation at DOC of groundbreaking 2-year-outcomes of 3x better outcomes (s. graph) + 2x more patients remaining in therapy

German AI award for deepeye research project

2021

Incorporation of deepeye Medical GmbH

2022

Initial publication of AI as a 2nd opinion to support retinal therapy, supported by Novartis

Collaboration with University Eye Hospital of Munich (LMU), one of the largest EU eye clinic with a retinal AI research group

2023

Publication together with Bayer, transferring the prognostic AI to diverse populations, imaging machines and regimens

Press Release

One line pitch

Preventing blindness by empowering eye doctors with an AI assistant for retinal therapy

Scientific one-liner

deepeye empowers ophthalmologists with AI to streamline intravitreal injection processes, driving outcomes & adherence and thus prevent blindness

Short

100+ million people globally are suffering from chronic, vision-threatening retinal diseases, accounting for ⅔ of blindness in the EU & US. Although 20+ million highly effective anti-VEGF therapies ($13 bn) are performed annually, millions of patients are losing vision permanently due to undertreatment or non-adherence to treatment.
deepeye built a precision medicine platform to support ophthalmologists in tailoring treatments for patients, streamlining the therapy process for providers, patients & caregivers and driving outcomes and adherence.
Our bold vision is to prevent 1 million people from blindness by 2030.

Shorter (200 chars)

Despite effective therapy for top causes of vision loss, most patients drop out due to high burden and go blind. deepeye’s AI empowers eye doctors to personalize treatment, get better vision outcomes, and drive therapy adherence.deepeye built a precision medicine platform to support ophthalmologists in tailoring treatments for patients, streamlining the therapy process for providers, patients & caregivers and driving outcomes and adherence.

2 sentences

Despite effective treatment for top causes of vision loss, most patients drop out due to suboptimal results at therapy high burden. deepeye AI-mpowers eye doctors to personalize treatment and (hopefully) prevent millions from retinal blindness.

About deepeye Medical

Millions of patients with vision loss abandon treatment despite effective therapies, leading to blindness. deepeye’s AI technology helps eye doctors tailor eye injections, potentially preventing ⅔ of blindness cases. Based in Munich, deepeye spun out from a leading tele-ophthalmic network, where expert 2nd opinions improved outcomes 3x and halved treatment dropout rates. Collaborating with top pharma and diagnostic firms and drawing insights from a vast dataset spanning hundreds of eye practices globally, deepeye introduces the world's 1st planning support tool for retinal therapies.

Long

100 million people globally suffer from vision-threatening retinal diseases. A $13bn drug can stop patients from vision loss. Still, ⅔ of cases of blindness in EU+US are due to these diseases like wet AMD. We provide an AI-based precision health platform that improves therapy outcomes by up to 6x by boosting:
-Adherence & persistence from 38% to 78% (2x)
-Real-world vision outcomes from 36% to 100% (3x)Our vision is to prevent 1 million additional people from blindness by 2030 by empowering ophthalmologists with AI-based optimal therapy prognosis. Our pre-clinical AI is used by pharma (Novartis, Bayer, Roche), payors, and providers’ associations to gain new insights into their therapy data.Our clinical product currently awaits regulatory approval to provide therapy decision support with 1 click at the point of care. Partnerships with the leading retinal diagnostics companies enable us access to more than >80% of ophthalmic practices globally. Together, we will put our AI in the hands of more than 50k retina specialists and long-term 220k eye doctors worldwide, starting with the EU, US and JP.

Team

100'000+ retinal therapies + 250+ medical device studies / approvals + >204 years working in medical devices or AI (16.2 on average) + 11.7 FTE + 10 nationalities = 1 team to scale the proven clinical benefits of expert 2nd opinion to ophthalmologists worldwide

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Press Contact

Please feel free to contact us if you need any more informations :
Charles Brioix
+33 (0)6 18 57 72 95
pr@deepeye-medical.com