Welcome
To prepare for our time together please review the following:
Blitz Pre-read
Tech and Trends
Disruptour Highlights
We hope that you find this useful in preparation for our upcoming Blitz.
The Inspiration File has been organized to set the context as we prepare to blitz the following new venture challenge:
How might we provide comprehensive eye care throughout people’s lifetimes—from their youth into their grey years;
in ways that automatically adjust to changes in their eyesight, lifestyle, and preferences—while making improved eye health and continuous good vision easy and accessible;
so that their eye health and seeing experiences—and the value they place on those—are the best that they can be every single day?
Blitz Pre-read
The Power of Big Lens
This piece characterizes the implications of a recent industry landscape shifting merger between Essilor, Hoya's primary lens competitor, and Luxxotica on the retail side, as Essilor vertically integrates. This shift underscores a window of opportunity within which Hoya has to make bold moves, Hoya's incentive to "change the game" to disrupt the encumbent, and Hoya's need to continue to innovate in key growth segments in which it can lead.
Tech and Trends
Disruptour Highlights
Before the Blitz leaders across Hoya will participate in The Hoya Disruptour, an intense, two-day sprint of Silicon Valley innovation and ingenuity starting with visits to venture capital firms, startups, peers, and domain experts. Review the featured Disruptour visits below to help inspire our solutions at the Hoya Lifetime Vision Care Blitz.
Verana Health
Verana Health transforms real-world data into intelligence that informs end-to-end product and market development for life science companies. Verana combines cutting-edge data science techniques, artificial intelligence, and ophthalmology expertise to identify vital market and clinical insights for the life science industry.
NeuroSky
NeuroSky is breaking the boundaries of health and wellness tracking and analysis by enabling a new generation of consumer wearables and mobile devices. Advanced biosensors, biometric algorithms, reference designs, and Big Data analytics enable leading-edge innovation in mHealth products and services for measuring body and mind performance.
Cherry Labs
Award-winning serial entrepreneurs have worked hard with AI scientists, computer vision engineers and product designers in complete stealth mode to create the revolution in Home Security and Family Safety.
Adlens
As well as developing autofocus glasses to overcome the loss of near vision as you get older, Adlens works with OEM partners to enable their next generations of AR/VR platforms to be genuinely immersive and visually comfortable.
GoCheck Kids
GoCheck Kids helps pediatricians detect vision issues at a low cost and with easy deployment so their patients don’t lose their vision or miss developmental milestones.
Visibly
Visibly’s industry leading online vision test has helped hundreds of thousands of patients get a new vision prescription to date. Developed by an Optometrist, the test takes 10 minutes and issues a vision prescription for contacts or glasses in less than 24 hours.
Wavelet Health
The only cloud-based, clinical monitoring solution designed for large-scale patient data collection and analysis. Wavelet technologies collect thousands of data points per minute to rapidly accelerate the development of new, better therapies that will improve the lives of millions of people.