C&C Vision
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
The options for people suffering from the age-related loss of ability to change eye focus from far to near are few and far from satisfactory. C&C Vision hopes to fill a need in the huge, untapped market of patients that suffer from presbyopia with an accommodating refractive lens.
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