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#6 - Munich-based Startup CEO Federico Acosta Will Make You Rethink Eye Surgery
You wouldn't believe me if I told you how analogue eye surgery still is, even today! 👁️🥼💾
Custom Surgical is changing all that by helping doctors turn their old, analogue equipment into smart equipment, and CEO Federico Acosta is at the center of it.
This enables a whole range of new capabilities to name a few:
✔ Making eye surgery more exact
✔ Solving the growing cataract crisis with Augmented Reality
✔ Using big data to train AI and large language models for better diagnoses
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🥊 STARTUP KNOCKOUT GERMANY 🥊
💥 Hard-hitting Learnings from The German Startup Scene
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In Today’s Discussion:
1. THE ENGINEER TURNED ENTREPRENEUR
Federico Acosta has been in thousands of surgeries as a clinical application specialist. It's only fitting that he founded the startup Custom Surgical to fix some of the problems he watched doctors struggle with
2. DEMOCRATISING MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
The flagship product, MicroREC is a simple engineering wonder that attaches to analogue microscopes turning them instantly into fully digital, smart medical equipment. But that's not all!
3. CUSTOM SURGICAL TACKLES THE CATARACT EPIDEMIC WITH AUGMENTED REALITY
Nearly everyone on earth will need cataract surgery at some point in their lives. Problem is, most won't get it. With their MicroART product, Federico and Custom Surgical are fixing this problem, and by the way, producing enough data to train AI large language models for future next steps
4. FEDERICO WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO COME TO GERMANY
Starting with a foot in German culture back in Colombia, he did his masters at TUM and has been a growing part of the MedTech ecosystem in Munich
5. WIN LOSE or DRAW
We play our game with Federico and he gets to chime in on:
1- AI helping patients, not just doctors, understand their diagnoses better
2 - Augmented Reality making cataract surgery feasible for non-doctors
3 - Cataracts being eliminated as a cause of blindness
4 - Glasses, one day, becoming a thing of the past
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FIND US ONLINE!
YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@startupknockout
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/startupknockout
TikTok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@startupknockout
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-knockout/
And from our Guest - CUSTOM SURGICAL:
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/customsurgical/
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/customsurgical/
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#startup #germany #medtech #opthalmology #startuppodcast
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By Timo HiggsYou wouldn't believe me if I told you how analogue eye surgery still is, even today! 👁️🥼💾
Custom Surgical is changing all that by helping doctors turn their old, analogue equipment into smart equipment, and CEO Federico Acosta is at the center of it.
This enables a whole range of new capabilities to name a few:
✔ Making eye surgery more exact
✔ Solving the growing cataract crisis with Augmented Reality
✔ Using big data to train AI and large language models for better diagnoses
----------------------
🥊 STARTUP KNOCKOUT GERMANY 🥊
💥 Hard-hitting Learnings from The German Startup Scene
----------------------
In Today’s Discussion:
1. THE ENGINEER TURNED ENTREPRENEUR
Federico Acosta has been in thousands of surgeries as a clinical application specialist. It's only fitting that he founded the startup Custom Surgical to fix some of the problems he watched doctors struggle with
2. DEMOCRATISING MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
The flagship product, MicroREC is a simple engineering wonder that attaches to analogue microscopes turning them instantly into fully digital, smart medical equipment. But that's not all!
3. CUSTOM SURGICAL TACKLES THE CATARACT EPIDEMIC WITH AUGMENTED REALITY
Nearly everyone on earth will need cataract surgery at some point in their lives. Problem is, most won't get it. With their MicroART product, Federico and Custom Surgical are fixing this problem, and by the way, producing enough data to train AI large language models for future next steps
4. FEDERICO WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO COME TO GERMANY
Starting with a foot in German culture back in Colombia, he did his masters at TUM and has been a growing part of the MedTech ecosystem in Munich
5. WIN LOSE or DRAW
We play our game with Federico and he gets to chime in on:
1- AI helping patients, not just doctors, understand their diagnoses better
2 - Augmented Reality making cataract surgery feasible for non-doctors
3 - Cataracts being eliminated as a cause of blindness
4 - Glasses, one day, becoming a thing of the past
----------------------
FIND US ONLINE!
YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@startupknockout
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/startupknockout
TikTok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@startupknockout
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-knockout/
And from our Guest - CUSTOM SURGICAL:
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/customsurgical/
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/customsurgical/
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#startup #germany #medtech #opthalmology #startuppodcast