# Transcend Medical

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/transcend-medical/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Transcend Medical was a medical device company based in Menlo Park, California, developing minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) devices. Spun out of the ForSight Labs ophthalmic incubator, its lead product was the CyPass Micro-Stent, a suprachoroidal implant designed to lower intraocular pressure in patients with mild-to-moderate glaucoma undergoing cataract surgery. The company raised roughly $89.8M across multiple venture rounds from investors including Canaan Partners, HLM Venture Partners, Finistere Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Latterell Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Split Rock Partners and Technology Partners, and was acquired by Novartis's Alcon eye-care business in February 2016. It operated no public API, developer platform, or software product; the transcendmedical.com domain no longer resolves following the company's absorption into Alcon.

## Kin Score — 2.2 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 2.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Medical Devices, Glaucoma, Ophthalmology, MedTech, Healthcare, Venture Backed, Acquired

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/transcend-medical/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.