Digit­isa­tion has fun­da­ment­ally altered tra­di­tion­al mar­ket rules. Exclus­iv­ity and con­trol give way to part­ner­ships and net­works. Fielmann Venture’s focus on the eye­wear industry allows us to integ­rate often-sep­ar­ated entit­ies into one hol­ist­ic unit. With a team of 20 spe­cial­ists with expert­ise in com­puter sci­ence, optic­al phys­ics, math­em­at­ics, strategy, busi­ness devel­op­ment and fin­ance, we serve our industry as ven­ture cap­it­al­ist, incub­at­or, accel­er­at­or, stra­tegic part­ner and research unit. It is our firm belief that mutu­ally bene­fi­cial part­ner­ships will cre­ate a net­work that will bring about the lead­ing plat­form for the eye­wear industry.

To devel­op dis­rupt­ive tech­no­lo­gies that cre­ate value for eye­wear con­sumers, health­care pro­viders and man­u­fac­tur­ers, we offer three forms of col­lab­or­a­tions:

1. Invest­ments
Some dis­rupt­ive tech­no­lo­gies are already avail­able in the mar­ket, they just need to be integ­rated into Fielmann’s omni­chan­nel plat­form. Hence, Fielmann Ven­tures employs a ded­ic­ated team that con­tinu­ously scouts the mar­ket for exist­ing solu­tions and ser­vices with dis­rupt­ive poten­tial. As a stra­tegic investor, Fielmann Ven­tures offers numer­ous advant­ages bey­ond the fin­an­cial bene­fits. We are open for Invest­ments in all stages. A recent example has been our invest­ment in aug­men­ted real­ity lead­er Fit­ting­Box.

2. Stra­tegic part­ner­ships
Some dis­rupt­ive tech­no­lo­gies in our mar­ket are already in sight – they just require that some part­ners pool their resources and devel­op the solu­tion. Thus, Fielmann Ven­tures works in sev­er­al stra­tegic part­ner­ships with start-ups and large cor­por­ates to devel­op dis­rupt­ive tech­no­lo­gies such as mil­li­metre-pre­cise 3D lens-fit­ting that enables omni­chan­nel sales of pre­scrip­tion eye­wear without com­prom­ising qual­ity.

3. Research col­lab­or­a­tions
Some tech­no­lo­gies are in an exper­i­ment­al stage so that the only way to acquire them is by own research and devel­op­ment. Fielmann Ven­tures boasts its own R&D team com­prised of spe­cial­ists with expert­ise in optic­al meas­ure­ment, soft­ware devel­op­ment and machine learn­ing that are sup­por­ted by our sci­ent­ists at our Fielmann Academie Plön Castle and our pro­duc­tion facil­it­ies in Rathenow. With 14 dir­ectly and indir­ectly held pat­ents and many more pending Fielmann Ven­tures is com­mit­ted to cut­ting-edge research. We work closely with lead­ing sci­ent­ists and oth­er R&D depart­ments to cre­ate tech­no­lo­gies such as a fully auto­mat­ic and device agnost­ic online eye test.