OKKO Health announce £2Million GBP pre-seed round, led by DvH Ventures, to bring sight monitoring app to European market | United Kingdom
Summary
Played regularly, the game can inform clinicians, and patients, of changes in visual acuity, sensitivity to contrast, distortion, and colour vision. The funding supports the creation of new aggregate datasets, providing opportunities to better understand how to target treatments for macular degeneration through the deployment of AI in the form of machine learning algorithms. OKKOs founder, Dr. Stephanie Campbell, has both clinical and vision science expertise, and this gives her deep, first-hand, market understanding which is hugely valuable in the digital health space.Dr. This hardware-free solution runs as a simple video game app for ophthalmology patients to play at home, using the sensors in the phone to accurately measure features of their vision. For patients, this means that eye health can be tracked between in-person clinic visits, and ultimately will lead to personalised and remote care.