Episode 26: Federico Acosta, CEO at Custom Surgical UG

Federico Acosta is the CEO and Co-founder of Custom Surgical UG, a Startup based in Munich that is developing medical imaging devices with smartphones. After 7 years of working in several countries in Latin America, with companies such as Abbott Medical Optics, Leica, Quantel, and Dutch Research Center, Federico decided to start his own project with an idea he developed while working in Chile. Ever since, Custom Surgical has won several entrepreneurship grants, launched his first product on Kickstarter in 2019, the MicroREC, and has been selling devices in more than 20 countries. Currently, Custom Surgical UG is developing a smartphone-based platform to screen retinal diseases using a patented optical system and Artificial Intelligence, a project specially focused on the Latin American market.

Federico was granted a scholarship and graduated from the National University of Colombia as a mechatronics engineer. He is currently finishing his master’s degree at the Technical University of Munich in Biomedical Computing and is taking part in the Start Munich community and the Xpreneurs program of the Technical University of Munich.