Where did you get the idea for your start-up?

Cédric Spaas. - “Problems can be solved by experts, or by combining existing solutions. For Arspectra, turning Augmented Reality (AR) technologies into novel surgical solutions is a combination of both.

Back in 2014, nobody heard about these AR possibilities in healthcare. Arspectra’s founders came from specialized AR applications in industry and nanotechnology for cancer treatments. Seeing the time and complexity that surgeons had to spend on matching diagnostic data to their patient, the potential of medical AR became clear to them.

Expertise from adjacent markets and technologies are now creating unprecedented visualisation and navigation tools for various medical procedures. Arspectra aims at enabling higher performance and better patient outcomes, at improved time and cost, and with impact on global scale.

Do you have any advice for those who are still hesitant to get started?

“Once you have that great idea of yours, don’t hesitate. Make that first business plan that will change over and over. But most importantly, go out there and test it with people that will eventually buy your product of service. If your idea really solves problems and needs you will get the start traction you need.

We often hear that it is essential to make mistakes. What do you think?

“Mistakes are inevitable, and crucial for your development as an entrepreneur. Evaluate and learn from them. Turn them into accelerators for your next steps rather than a pull back on your prior steps. The only unforgivable mistake you can make is to not act and change on an existing error.”

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