Tobii Technology

Tobii AB (publ) (formerly known as Tobii Technology AB) is a Swedish high-technology company that develops and sells products for eye control and eye tracking. The Tobii Group today consists of three business units. Tobii Dynavox and Tobii Pro are both solid, market-leading businesses within their respective markets. Together they form a foundation for the Group’s business, organization and technology development. The third business unit, Tobii Tech, is investing in establishing Tobii’s eye-tracking technology within consumer electronics and other high volume markets.

John Elvesjo, Mårten Skogö and Henrik Eskilsson founded the company in 2001. All three founders play an active role in the company: Henrik Eskilsson is the CEO, John Elvesjö is vice president and CTO, and Mårten Skogö is Chief Science Officer.
In the spring of 2007, the company got $14 million in venture capital from Investor Growth Capital. In May 2009, Investor, Amadeus Capital Partners and Northzone Ventures invested an additional $16 million. and at the start of 2012, Intel Capital invested $21 million.
In 2008, Tobii won the Grand Award of Design for its eye-controlled screens. In 2010, Tobii won the SIME Grand Prize for having the most innovative technology concept. In 2011, Tobii Glasses won the red dot design award, an international product design competition and later the same year, Tobii won the Bully Award. In 2012, Tobii took home the award for best prototype at the consumer technology tradeshow 2012 CES and Laptop Magazine named Tobii the winner in its best new technology category.