MEDICAL DEVICE STARTUP • OPHTHALMOLOGY

Meet Fundocast
smart fundoscopy
projection by Oculux.

A compact device that turns traditional fundoscopy into a sharable, screen-ready experience — making eye exams simpler for clinicians, students, and patients.

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Built under MEDHA 2025 at Grant Government Medical College & Sir J.J. Hospital in collaboration with BETIC, IIT Bombay.

Device Concept • Under Development

Fundocast – Fundoscopy, but visible to everyone.

Attach Fundocast to the fundoscope, examine the retina, and project the live view to any screen for teaching, tele-consults, and better patient communication.

AI-Ready

Concept prototype · MEDHA 2025

Clinician feedback loop active

About Oculux

From hackathon sparks to focused fundoscopy innovation.

Oculux is a student-led medical device team focused on making eye diagnostics more visual, sharable, and accessible – starting with Fundocast, a project under MEDHA 2025.

We are four founders who met at MEDHA 2025 – the medical device hackathon at Grant Government Medical College & Sir J.J. Hospital. During ward visits and discussions with ophthalmologists, one pain point kept repeating: fundoscopy is hard to share.

Residents squeeze behind the doctor to catch a glimpse, patients struggle to understand what’s happening, and there is almost no easy way to project the retina view onto a screen in real time.

That’s where Fundocast was born – a projection layer for fundoscopy, designed to plug into existing workflows instead of replacing them, developed as a dedicated MEDHA 2025 project.

Day 1 – Medha 2025

Four strangers, one problem board

We met during the problem-statement round, all drawn to “fundoscopy projection” as a challenge that mixes optics, electronics, and clinical impact.

Day 2 – Ideation

Sketching Fundocast

Over coffee, corridor walks, and late-night whiteboards we envisioned a compact attachment that could capture and cast the eye’s internal view in real time.

Day 3 – Prototype sprint

From idea to first mockup

Using off-the-shelf optics, sensors and a tiny compute unit, we built our first proof-of-concept and validated it with mentors and clinicians on the floor.

Now

Refining under Medha

Fundocast continues to grow as a MEDHA 2025 project, capturing real clinical feedback and evolving into a robust teaching and screening tool for fundoscopy.

Clinical Need

Fundoscopy is powerful, but difficult to share.

Traditional fundoscopes are designed for a single viewer at a time. Teaching, documentation, and tele-consultation all suffer when only one eye sees the retina.

Current challenges

The problem in busy eye clinics and wards

Only the examiner can see the retina during fundoscopy, leaving students and patients guessing.
No simple screen-based projection for bedside teaching or live case discussions.
Limited visual documentation for follow-up, referrals, and tele-ophthalmology.

Our response

Fundocast – projection for fundoscopy, not a replacement.

A compact attachment for the fundoscope that captures the live fundus view.
Streams or mirrors the view to common screens (monitor, tablet, laptop) over a simple wired or wireless link.
Designed for teaching rounds, camps, and OPDs without changing how doctors already examine patients.

Product Highlights

What makes Fundocast stand out?

Built with clinicians, residents, and students in mind, Fundocast is designed to sit quietly in the background and make eye exams more visible for everyone involved.

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Plug-into existing workflows

No need to overhaul your setup. Fundocast is designed as an add-on layer to standard fundoscopy practice.

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Live projection & teaching

Display the fundus view on screens during rounds so residents, students and patients can see what you see in real time.

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AI-ready capture

High-quality digital output makes it easier to plug into AI-assisted analysis pipelines in the future.

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Portable & camp-friendly

Lightweight and compact for eye camps, outreach programs and bedside evaluations in wards and ICUs.

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Designed with clinicians

Feedback from ophthalmologists and residents at MEDHA 2025 is baked into each design iteration.

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Privacy-aware workflows

Thoughtful on-device and local-first options to respect patient privacy while enabling teaching and research.

Workflow

How Fundocast fits into an eye exam.

Fundocast is designed to be intuitive for clinicians while beautifully transparent for learners and patients.

Attach Fundocast

Mount the device onto the fundoscopy setup without modifying core hardware.

Perform fundoscopy

Examine the patient’s eye as usual – Fundocast silently captures the live view.

Cast to screen

Stream the view to a monitor, laptop or tablet for shared visualization.

Save & review

Optionally store snapshots or short clips for teaching, follow-up, and tele-consultation.

Founding Team

Four founders, one shared vision.

We met as strangers at MEDHA 2025, connected over the fundoscopy projection problem statement, and left as the Oculux founding team.

Sairaj Hanchate

Engineering Lead

Leads the engineering architecture and integration of optics, hardware and system design for Fundocast.

Dr. Umnesh Sawant

UG Doctor Lead

Brings frontline clinical insight from the UG doctor perspective and shapes how Fundocast fits into real eye exam workflows.

Soham Patil

Design Lead

Owns product design, interaction, and visual communication so Fundocast feels intuitive for clinicians, students and patients.

Dr. Mayank Sharma

PG Doctor Lead

Provides PG-level clinical depth, helps validate use-cases and bridges Fundocast with teaching and postgraduate training needs.

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Let’s explore fundoscopy’s next chapter together.

If you’re a clinician, mentor, researcher or builder interested in smarter eye-care tools, we’d love to hear from you.