IXI raises $36.5M from Amazon and more to bring the concept of autofocus to prescription glasses

Blink and you’ll miss it: a startup out of Finland is taking a new look at the market for prescription eyewear. Tapping into innovations in eye-tracking and liquid crystal lens technology, IXI is building low-power glasses that will invisibly, automatically adjust to account for Presbyopia (far-sightedness), for the wearer.

Four years into its life, Hensinki-based IXI is today emerging from stealth, announcing that it’s raised a total of $36.5 million from a list of investors including the Amazon Alexa fund, to work towards its first commercial…