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Vancouver VR firm that helps train surgeons nabs $2.3m in funding

Precision OS will use funds to bolster distribution partnerships and create content for trainees
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Precision OS develops training for surgeons in virtual reality | submitted

A Vancouver-based firm that specializes in training surgeons through virtual reality has completed a venture capital raise to the tune of $2.3 million.

Precision OS announced November 15 the Series A funding round was led by AO Invest. Other undisclosed investors also participated.

“Precision OS technology is working to create a virtual language able to add depth of understanding that simply cannot be achieved using current simulation tools,” Precision OS co-founder and CEO Dr. Danny Goel, an orthopedic surgeon by trade, said in a statement.

“Adopting VR as a way of improving decision-making is directly relevant for patients and value-based care.”

Precision OS produces what it calls “the most immersive and realistic form of deliberate surgical practice.”

It’s now in the midst of developing a tool allowing surgeons to introduce images of a specific patient’s anatomy to the software before conducting a procedure.

Funding is also being used to bolster distribution partnerships and create additional content for trainees.

The company, which was founded in 2017, is among the 200-plus firms developing VR applications that have sprung up in Metro Vancouver over the past three years.

Switzerland-based AO Invest is the venture capital arm of the AO Foundation, a network of more than 19,000 surgeons and scientists in orthopedics and trauma.

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