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The Perkins College for the Blind has identified around 1,400 companies that are developing and making solutions precisely for individuals with disabilities. I fulfilled a handful of them at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, and I am impressed by the two these startups and their founders. — Anna
A actual sector
A broad range of sectors ended up represented at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield this calendar year, from fintech and AI to lawful tech and wellness tech. But there’s a team of startups that particularly piqued my curiosity: disability tech startups.
With sixteen% of the world wide inhabitants residing with a disability, the marketplace price of the disability tech marketplace in 2023 is approximated at $twenty five billion, and could get to $37 billion by 2029, according to a white paper presented at Disrupt by Howe Innovation Centre Executive Director Sandy Lacey.
