Transcense

Transcense is a revolutionary mobile & speech technology to empower 400M people with hearing loss to understand who says what in group conversations and beyond.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Mobile
  • Location Berkeley, CA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded August 2014
  • Employees 3
  • Website transcense.com

Company Summary

Hearing loss excludes daily hundreds of millions of people from group conversations.
Transcense mobile & speech technology, AVA, transcribes on their screen who says what around them, in less than a second. With +60 years of experience of the problem, we created the world's fastest captioning service, featured in Forbes by S Blank. Free 10hrs/month, $29 unlimited, $40,000 preorders, usage at 50 hours/month.
We're captioning their social life.

Team

  • Thibault Duchemin
    CEO

    - MS, Theoretical Maths & Physics - ParisTech University
    - M.Engineering, Data Science - UC Berkeley
    - Machine Learning Engineer in Sequoia-backed startup AgilOne
    - Interprets deaf/hearing group communications since age 3
    - Founder of INDIA25 - 25-day tour of most brilliant minds in Indian social business entrepreneurs
    - Berkeley BigIdeas 2014, SOCAP14, Kairos 100 Fellow, BoostVC Alum

  • Pieter Doevendans
    COO

    - BoostVC Alum'
    - MS. Innovation Sciences UC Berkeley-T/U Eindhoven
    - Winner Arizona Social Competition (Clinton Global Initiative)
    - Co-Founder KangaKare

  • Skinner Cheng
    CTO

    - MS. CS - University of San Francisco
    - 6 years mobile development experience
    - 11 years software engineering development
    - Expertise: Mobile development (Android, iOS, GLASS), Python, Systems architecture.

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