Become involved

Eye Research Australia have provided vital support to the retinal camera development. In recognition of this, the technology developed for the retinal camera is jointly owned by Vision Instruments and Eye Research Australia, and a significant royalty will flow to Eye Research Australia from every retinal camera sold by Vision Instruments for 20 years into the future. If you are interested in contributing to the saving of sight through the development of the retinal camera, tax deductible donations may be made to the Eye Research Australia Foundation at www.eraf.org.au

Vision Instruments was established for the development of the non-mydriatic retinal camera and other appropriate eyecare technology. We are a triple bottom line company with social and environmental criteria given similar priority to financial aspects of our success and growth. In keeping with this philosophy, we are developing our retinal camera for retinopathy screening in public health and the developing world, rather than concentrating on the more established western world Optometry and Ophthalmology market (although we expect to sell many instruments into this market). We intend to share equity in the company with employees and aspire to develop component suppliers in needy areas such as country Australia and developing world countries. To ensure the viability of such a business model, we have kept overheads to an absolute minimum and are not committed to financial targets but will let the company grow at a rate appropriate to serve a growing customer base. We believe that this business model will be successful in the 21st century, and hope to form business relationships with others who share our Vision.

We would welcome enquiries from any person or organisation that would like to discuss involvement in the retinal camera development project. We are evolving our business model at present, and would welcome your consideration or comment on the following :

Vision Instruments is a sole proprietor company, and the retinal camera technology is co-owned by Vision Instruments and Eye Research Australia. To date the rate of retinal camera development has been constrained by funding limitations and we would welcome enquiries from any person or organisation that would be interested in discussing opportunities for investment in the company.

Vision Instruments is an autonomous organisation at present, with contractual obligations only to Eye Research Australia, who have provided vital support for the development of the retinal camera. Although Vision Instruments may remain autonomous through to final production of the retinal camera, we may be interested in forming a strategic partnership with a company for completion of development and production of the retinal camera. Please feel free to contact us if you would like to explore such opportunities.

Please note that Vision Instruments is not interested in discussing conventional exclusive distribution agreements as we propose to distribute and support the retinal camera directly from Vision Instruments to minimise the cost to the end user. The retinal camera is designed to be very easy to use and very reliable, to allow this direct support. Instrument pricing will be based on production cost plus a moderate margin to support the customer and our company, and we will not be in a position to support significant distribution mark-ups. Notwithstanding this, we would be pleased to discuss innovative relationships with potential distributors, such as allowance for a small margin where the distributor is able to facilitate an instrument sale for us.