## About GiveVision

Give **Vision** is a not-for-dividend company* founded in 2014 with the aim of developing **assistive technologies** that can transform the lives of people with severe **sight impairments.**

Our mission is to set a new accessibility standard for sports and entertainment, making it more inclusive and accessible for people with sight loss by breaking down barriers and enhancing their independence.

You can learn more about our journey below:

### 2016-2017:
**SightPlus™ is Born**  
Give **Vision** debuts world’s-first ever wearable vision aid powered by a smartphone.

[View BBC Video](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-39752969)

### 2017 - 2018:
**CE-Class I Medical Device**  
Give **Vision** secures additional funding from Pfizer Healthcare Hub and the NHS to register SightPlus™ as a regulated medical device.

### 2018 - 2019:
**Landmark Clinical Study**  
Moorfields Eye Hospital, London and UCL publish a clinical study that finds that SightPlus™ improves sight for 98% of study participants.

[View Study Paper](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/opo.12646)

### 2019-2021:
**Home Vision Monitoring - SightCheck**  
A consortium of senior clinicians from Manchester Royal Eye Infirmary, Roche Thailand, and Give **Vision** embark on a two-year project to develop a home vision monitoring system.

### 2021 - 2022:
Roche funds a real-world trial of SightCheck in Thailand. The SightCheck is approved for a multi-site 12-month study to monitor patients’ vision and evaluate the adherence to Anti-VEGF treatment.

### 2022 - 2023:
**Premiere League football and Paris Basket pilots GiveVision**  
The latest chapter of our story is helping make live sports and entertainment more accessible for people living with sight loss.

## Team

**Elodie Draperi**  
CEO  
Elodie is in charge of our operations in France, she leads on the Give **Vision** set-up for big upcoming opportunities such as the Paris Olympic & Paralympic Games, while at the same time overseeing our clinical studies and basically every R&D project we work on... which is why she has the title of CEO.

**Piotr Imielski**  
Engineering  
Piotr is the man behind all technologies and inventions developed at Give **Vision**. Every version of the software and every piece of hardware shipped from our offices was engineered by this man.

**Joanna Liddington**  
Operations  
Joanna leads our operations in the UK; her main role is to lead the transition and integration of Give **Vision** technology into the sports and live entertainment industry.

**Stan Karpenko**  
Product  
Stan’s role is to make sure that our products deliver on the needs and expectations of our customers and users.

**Cissé Doucouré**  
Business Dev. Manager France  
Cissé has joined the team after using Givevision Live at various sports events in France, including the Games In Paris.

**Prof Tariq Aslam**  
Science & Clinical  
Consultant Ophthalmologist at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and Professor at the University of Manchester.

**Michael Mason**  
Customer Support  
Michael has first-hand experience of living with sight loss and the challenges that come with it.

## Investing in vision:

Meet the organisations who funded the development of this technology:

*Not-for-Dividend means that we measure our progress and optimise not for EBITDA but for impact (in our case the metric we use is: THOS: Total Hours of Sight) provided to our users.