Ear Machine

Ear Machine increases accessibility to excellent hearing through hearing science and consumer technology

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Mobile
  • Location Chicago, IL, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Employees 3
  • Website earmachine.com

Company Summary

Ear Machine’s core competency and intellectual property is in the science that reduces hundreds of hearing aid parameters into two unidimensional controllers. When users manipulate the controllers, a hearing-science based algorithm allows them to optimize their hearing quickly and easily with a smartphone. We partner with smartphone OS developers and audio hardware manufacturers (consumer and hearing health) to make good hearing more accessible.

Team

  • Andrew Sabin PhD
    Managing Member

    Inventor of core Ear Machine technologies. Twelve years of NIH-funded hearing research. Extensive experience in mobile/web development, machine learning and data science.

  • Dianne Van Tasell PhD
    Senior Scientist

    Twenty years’ NIH-funded research on hearing (U of MN). Eighteen years in hearing aid industry: six as R&D director at major manufacturer and twelve as consultant. Experience with FDA regulatory practices on hearing aids.

  • Kevin Franck PhD MBA
    Business Developer

    Twenty years in bionic medical device industry. Clinically certified audiologist. Non-profit board member / trustee of deaf advocacy organizations.

Previous Investors

  • The National Institutes of Health (SBIR Phase I, II, RO1)
    Unconfirmed
    The Capita Foundation
    Unconfirmed

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