Dubai based eyewear retailer ‘Eyewa’ has raised $29.6 million in funding so far after securing $21 million in June 2020. Elias Tsikhlakis is the COO and one of the founding members who oversees the e-commerce operations of the firm and is currently managing eyewa’s retail expansion in the U.A.E. In this episode of Up-To-Data, our Executive Editor Shruthi Nair speaks to him about Eyewa’s expansion plans, data strategies, retaining it’s physical stores and new technologies to be implemented.