Ovitz

Ovitz – founded by Joung Yoon (Felix) Kim ’14, Pedro Pablo Vallejo ’16, Aizhong Zhang ‘14MS (PhD candidate in Optics), Sam Steven ’14, Len Zheleznyak (PhD candidate in Optics), and Ana Garcia ’14 – created the EyeProfiler, a portable, inexpensive, and multifunctional eye measurement device in 2012. The team, who wished to make vision correction available to more people, placed first in the 2013 Charles and Janet Forbes Entrepreneurial Award Competition and third in the 2013 Mark Ain Business Model Competition.

Since then, Ovitz (led by Kim) has established a Korean subsidiary with 4 employees. Additional awards and honors include: first place and $50,000 in cash at the 2014 Rochester Regional Business Plan Contest; semifinalist in the 2014 43North competition; winner of the Optics, Photonics, and Imaging Award of the 2014 Digital Rochester GREAT Awards and finalist in the Student Achievement and Rising Star categories of the GREAT Awards that same year.

Ovitz exited the UR Student Incubator in 2016 and joined the High Tech Rochester (now NextCorps) Affiliate Program to continue their business goals. Most recently, Kim and his team secured $1 million in investment funds by winning the Luminate Accelerator for Optics, Photonics, and Imaging Startups pitch competition.