Arturo Catalano Gonzaga
Co-founder & CEO
BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Bath and former safety-critical automotive software engineer at TTTech Auto. Leads product, R&D and strategy.
Glassless crowdfunding
Drop your glasses. Read with Glassless.
Join our crowdfunding campaign on Republic Europe and help us replace reading glasses with a future-proof solution, Glassless!
Backed by
- Impact Deal
- Lazio
- European Union
- Italian Republic
- Regione Lazio
- Accelerace
- CDP Rete Nazionale Acceleratori
- Healthware
- VITA Digital Health Accelerator
Why Glassless exists
- ~2bn
- People struggle to read up close
- 900m
- People have no access to glasses
- 6.5h
- Average daily screen time
- ~150
- Daily phone checks that require glasses
These statistics lead us to a very simple question
“Why, after all this technological progress, do we still rely on glasses to interact with technology?”
Our vision is that technology should adapt to people, not the other way around.
About our crowdfunding campaign
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The team
Engineering, optics, business and physics.
A multidisciplinary team turning a complex optical problem into software designed for everyday devices. Three out of five people in our team wear glasses daily, the other two are living on borrowed time... But we all grew up watching our parents enter the classic “Where are my reading glasses?” phase of life. We thought there had to be a smarter solution than eyewear.
Giorgio Sleiter
Co-founder & COO
MSc in Entrepreneurship at King's College London and former venture lead at Bain & Company. Leads operations, fundraising and go-to-market.
Giuseppe Antonacci
Co-founder & Scientific Advisor
Photonics and optics PhD at Imperial College London, patent holder and Founder of Specto Photonics. Advises applied optics and technology development.
Michelangelo Panza
Co-founder & Scientific Lead
Physicist and Physics Education researcher at University of Macerata and Cagliari. Leads rigorous laboratory testing, data collection and validation.
Rambod Rahmani
AI Engineer
MEng in Artificial Intelligence at Università di Pisa. 5+ years of experience in machine learning and computer vision, now leads Glassless AI development.
Our solution
Vision correction, built into the display.
Glassless is a personalised software filter that adapts everything on screen to your visual needs.
Complete a short self-assessment test to calibrate your vision profile. The correction then runs quietly in the background, re-arranging the pixels on the screen so the displayed content lands sharply on your retina.
Glassless lab demonstration
See Glassless at work.
In this demonstration, we simulated presbyopia to show how our software helps you interact with your smartphone when glasses are not available. As the visual condition is simulated in the video, if you normally wear glasses, keep them on while watching.
Road map
From lab validation to market.
Glassless is progressing from static-image correction to AI-driven, dynamic correction on mobile devices, with commercialisation targeted from the end of 2027.
- Web and Android App created
- 500+ early adopters joined the waitlist
- Static-image correction validated in the lab
- AI Engineer joined the team
- Pre-seed round
- Deep Learning algorithm
Why crowdfunding
Backed by institutions, strengthened from the crowd.
Glassless has already been recognised and financed by public institutions and private investors, including a €150K investment from VITA - Digital Health Accelerator and a ~€60K Pre-Seed+ grant by Lazio Innova.
Our pre-seed round is now open to the people our technology is built for.
By crowdfunding on Republic Europe, you can join the round alongside our existing backers and be part of a company working to remove reading glasses for 1.8 billion people interacting with technology everyday.
- €230,000
- Investments and non-dilutive funding secured to date
- 500+
- Early adopters already on the waitlist
- 30 days
- The investment window once the campaign goes live
How it works
Three steps to invest.
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Register
Register today and we'll keep you updated with our crowdfunding campaign latest news.
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Crowdfunding
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