{"id":10944,"date":"2026-03-05T23:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/science-corp-raises-230-million-retinal-implant-fda-decision\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:02:24","slug":"science-corp-raises-230-million-retinal-implant-fda-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/science-corp-raises-230-million-retinal-implant-fda-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Science Corp. raises $230 million to bring retinal implant to Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

STAT+: Science Corp. raises $230 million to bring retinal implant to Americans
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Science Corporation announced Thursday that the company raised $230 million as it awaits a decision from the Food and Drug Administration on PRIMA, its wireless retinal implant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Series C funding round includes investors from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Quiet Capital, and IQT, the investor arm for the CIA and the broader U.S. intelligence community. The company has raised roughly $490 million since Max Hodak founded the startup in 2021.<\/p>\n

The company expects to launch its device later this year in Europe after clinical trial results showed that the system \u2014 which pairs glasses that project near-infrared light with the retinal implant \u2014 restored central vision and improved visual acuity<\/a> in people with late-stage macular degeneration after 12 months.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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STAT+: Science Corp. raises $230 million to bring retinal implant to Americans Science Corporation announced Thursday that the company raised $230 million as it awaits a decision from the Food and Drug Administration on PRIMA, its wireless retinal implant.\u00a0 The Series C funding round includes investors from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Quiet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2217,2498,2791,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-tech","category-medical-devices","category-startups","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}