A startup that grew out of research at the Medical University of South Carolina and The Citadel has hit the market and closed on a new round of funding.
Blinktbi Inc.’s technology is now being sold to schools and athletic programs to help them diagnose concussions, a condition that has been hard to measure in the past.
The company cleared a formidable hurdle at the end of 2019, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave Blinktbi permission to market its device, after a rigorous review process that took months to complete.
Now free to begin selling EyeStat, the company is leasing the technology to lessen the blow of the device’s full cost of about $10,000. The latest round of funding, for about $6 million, will help offset the costs of manufacturing the medical devices, to make that option possible.
Original story published by Charleston Post and Courier.
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