Inscrição YC de AudioFocus

Summer 2019Active

AudioFocus passou pela Y Combinator no batch Summer 2019 como uma empresa Healthcare. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.

Batch YC: Summer 2019
Indústria: HealthcareMedical Devices
Tamanho da equipe: 4
Status: Active
Lançada: 2019

Fundadores

Shariq MobinFounder

O que AudioFocus faz

If we've learned anything in the last few years it's that spending time with our friends and family is essential to our well-being and happiness. Unfortunately, loud and noisy places like weddings and family gatherings hinder human connection, especially for the hearing impaired. In fact, the biggest unmet need in the entire hearing healthcare industry is hearing in noisy places. AudioFocus helps patients hear in these environments by only enhancing voices nearby the patients and ignoring ones farther away. We do this using acoustics informed machine learning and custom microphone array design. Our goal is to increase the adoption rate of 37M US adults with hearing loss, only 8M use hearing aids today. Founded by Auditory Neuroscientist & AI expert and a Hearing Aid hardware design expert.

Inscrição YC de AudioFocus, reconstruída

Inscrição Y Combinator

AudioFocus, lote Summer 2019. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

AudioFocus

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Hearing aids that work in noisy places

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We make hearing aids that help people hear conversations clearly in noisy environments like restaurants or family gatherings. Our product filters out distant noise and enhances nearby voices using acoustics-informed ML combined with a custom microphone array designed specifically for this purpose.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in Oakland, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in Oakland because our team is here and we have access to nearby research institutions supporting our work in auditory neuroscience and machine learning. This location allows us to focus full-time on product development and user testing locally.

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Perguntas Frequentes

Esta é a inscrição real da YC de AudioFocus?

Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de AudioFocus (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como AudioFocus se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.

Em qual batch da YC AudioFocus esteve?

AudioFocus fez parte do batch Summer 2019 da Y Combinator.

Quem fundou o AudioFocus?

O AudioFocus foi fundado por Shariq Mobin.

O que o AudioFocus faz?

Hearing aids that work in noisy places, like restaurants, using ML.

Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?

Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do AudioFocus, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.