Healthcare

Spect

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Vision Disease cause innumerable cases of preventable blindness globally - 415 million diabetic patients worldwide are susceptible to Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), Glaucoma, and more. Current screening protocols for vision disease require ophthalmologists to manually diagnose patients through visual assessment of the fundus. Given the large number of

Founded 2017Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Vision Disease cause innumerable cases of preventable blindness globally - 415 million diabetic patients worldwide are susceptible to Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), Glaucoma, and more. Current screening protocols for vision disease require ophthalmologists to manually diagnose patients through visual assessment of the fundus. Given the large number of diabetes patients in various communities, this process is expensive, inefficient, and an undue burden on eye clinics.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously EyeLogic

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Ankur Gupta

Founder/CEO

After undergrad and a Master's at Stanford University, where I completed the Biodesign program, I started my career in healthcare venture capital. Afterward, I went to medical school at UT Southwestern in Texas and did my residency training in Ophthalmology at the National Eye Institute (NIH), University of Chicago, Geisinger, and Stanford Medicine. I’ve mentored several and started three companies, including Spect.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
7team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2017 · Source

News & product activity

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Palo Alto, CA, USA; Remote
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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