PreciPoint Today

PreciPoint is digitising microscopy and empowering pathologists worldwide to transcend boundaries. With our solutions, we are changing workflows that have still been performed in analogue for 150 years. Our microscopes don’t just show small sections through an eyepiece. Our systems offer the user a full-time solution for digitising microscopy so that the user can continue to focus on the essentials of their work. Thanks to digitalisation, new possibilities for work and collaboration are emerging: our innovations provide the link. With our new research microscope FRITZ, we offer an affordable solution for first-class virtual microscopy. Now, we are developing our first medical product, which should receive approval before the end of 2022: the iO:M8 – ROSE. The microscope can be used specifically for intraoperative consultations. It enables simple and fast collaborative work among medical professionals and facilitates obtaining a second opinion. We achieve all this because we work together as a team to make surgical and clinical pathology more effective and efficient. This is also proven by the three awards Top100, Best Employer Startup – Business Punk, Top Employer Medium-Sized Businesses – Fokus.

Company History

PreciPoint is a young company that can draw on a wealth of experience. The startup was formed in 2018 to drive the digitisation of microscopy and laboratory processes specifically in cancer diagnostics. Learn about our company history here.

In 1982 Fritz Müller founded the Fritz Müller GmbH. The tinkerer and inventor developed an XY stage for a microscope as well as corresponding software for microscopic hardness testing automation. Fritz Müller GmbH rose to become the market leader in this market segment and attracted the attention of an American company in 2009. The resulting asset buy-out made way for a change of direction: many years of experience in microscopy, mechanical development, and user-specific software formed the foundation for a revolutionary approach to digital microscopy. The goal was to build a microscope that delivers outstanding image quality, also digitises these images and at the same time is so easy to use that it can be operated purely intuitively. As a rule, microscopes are characterised by a large number of mechanical and electronic adjustment options that can also be easily adjusted. In addition, the image to be viewed is always limited to the field of view of the eyepiece. All these error-prone elements are eliminated in PreciPoint’s products.

The company was already able to deliver the first regularly manufactured -microscopes to customers in 2016. After the foundation of PreciPoint Group GmbH in 2018 and the reorganisation of PreciPoint with two subsidiaries at the locations in Thuringia and Bavaria, PreciPoint is now ready to start with the certification of its first own medical product, the iO:M8. The iO:M8 is a digital microscope that can be used in vitro for intraoperative examination of samples from the human body. In addition to the M8, the O8, an oil microscope, and a scanner, FRITZ has also been ready since 2021. In its efficiency, intuitive operability, and highest image quality, the virtual microscope combines all the values for which its namesake once stood.

As a company, PreciPoint takes a holistic approach. To achieve a disruptive effect in pathology, not only high-quality devices for digitisation are necessary, but also a problem-free integration into laboratory information systems, compatibility with other software systems, but also the question of how the generated images are further treated. Here, the company has developed precicloud, which makes it possible to store, manage and visualise the high-resolution whole-slide images and to annotate and share them easily. A further step is the integration of artificial intelligence, which is to take over important, fundamental tasks in pathology in the future and create space and time for further progress.

Incidentally, Fritz Müller is still closely associated with the company and continues to work on a variety of innovation projects. His vision of achieving high customer satisfaction by producing a user-friendly product has not been lost to this day.

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