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The Perkins Faculty for the Blind has identified more than one,400 organizations that are building and creating merchandise specially for people today with disabilities. I met a handful of them at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, and I am impressed by equally these startups and their founders. — Anna
A serious sector
A broad vary of sectors were represented at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield this calendar year, from fintech and AI to legal tech and overall health tech. But there is a team of startups that particularly piqued my curiosity: disability tech startups.
With sixteen% of the global inhabitants living with a incapacity, the industry price of the incapacity tech marketplace in 2023 is approximated at $25 billion, and could get to $37 billion by 2029, according to a white paper presented at Disrupt by Howe Innovation Center Executive Director Sandy Lacey.
