About | TranscribeGlass

Technology + Inclusion = Impact.

Our vision is to enrich the lives of people with disabilities through technology-enabled empowerment

Technology + Inclusion = Impact.

Our vision is to enrich the lives of people with disabilities through technology-enabled empowerment

Purpose

At TinkerTech Labs, our mission is to design and build accessible, inclusive and innovative technology solutions for people with disabilities.

Team

Madhav Lavakare
Founder

Madhav Lavakare is a young entrepreneur from New Delhi, India. He has had a passion for tinkering, creating, and innovating from a very young age, and has a keen eye for solving problems.

With TranscribeGlass™, he aims to solve the biggest problem he's tackled yet: bridging the communication gap between the D/deaf and Hard of Hearing community and mainstream society.

Madhav has been awarded the Prime Minister’s National Child Award and a Presidential Gold Medal, the highest Indian civilian honor for a student. He is also a Ashoka Youth Venturer. TranscribeGlass has won the Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam IGNITE award organized by the National Innovation Foundation of India.

Tom is a recent Stanford graduate with a degree in biomedical informatics. Due to a bilateral hearing loss, he's particularly interested in hearing research, with the hope of one day achieving communication parity for the Deaf/HOH. He believes that TranscribeGlass' innovative wearable display brings such a future well within our grasp. He has tackled Deaf/HOH challenges from multiple angles, including conducting academic research in hearing regeneration, founding Stanford's first club for the Deaf/HOH, and performing volunteer/advocacy work for hearing loss. At TranscribeGlass, Tom is responsible for user trials, fundraising, sales, and marketing.

Tom Pritsky
Co Founder

Matthew Johnston
Project manager

Matthew has spent his career in the technology industry in various roles. He is currently at ThoughtWorks, building teams and products for their clients. As a disability champion, he sees inclusive technology as essential to help create a socially and economically just world.

Matthew is a trustee of Stagetext, a UK charity that provides captioning and live subtitling services to cultural events and venues. He is also a trustee of Scope, the disability equality charity in the UK helping them to collaborate with tech companies to make the digital world more inclusive. He's on Scope's Big Hack Advisory Board to encourage and embrace inclusive design as a culture and practice.

Matthew was born deaf.

Team

Madhav Lavakare
Founder

Madhav Lavakare is a young entrepreneur from New Delhi, India. He has had a passion for tinkering, creating, and innovating from a very young age, and has a keen eye for solving problems. With TranscribeGlass™, he aims to solve the biggest problem he's tackled yet: bridging the communication gap between the D/deaf and Hard of Hearing community and mainstream society. Madhav has been awarded the Prime Minister’s National Child Award and a Presidential Gold Medal, the highest Indian civilian honor for a student. He is also a Ashoka Youth Venturer. TranscribeGlass has won the Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam IGNITE award organized by the National Innovation Foundation of India.

Tom Pritsky
Chief Marketing Officer

Matthew Johnston
Project manager

Matthew has spent his career in the technology industry in various roles. He is currently at ThoughtWorks, building teams and products for their clients. As a disability champion, he sees inclusive technology as essential to help create a socially and economically just world. Matthew is a trustee of Stagetext, a UK charity that provides captioning and live subtitling services to cultural events and venues. He is also a trustee of Scope, the disability equality charity in the UK helping them to collaborate with tech companies to make the digital world more inclusive. He's on Scope's Big Hack Advisory Board to encourage and embrace inclusive design as a culture and practice. Matthew was born deaf.

Advisors

Prof P.V.M Rao

P. V. Madhusudhan Rao is a chair professor in the department of mechanical engineering and head of the Design Department at IIT Delhi. He is a co-founder of the AssisTech lab which works towards development of assistive technologies for empowerment of the differently-abled.

Tina Saighal

Tina Saighal is the founder of Sanket Foundation, a non-profit for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People in India and is hard of hearing. She has professional experience of over 15 years as an architect in India and then as a venture development consultant at a private equity firm in London. She has served on the board of trustees of the Royal Association for the Deaf People (RAD), in London for over 5 years.

Suman Saraf

Suman Saraf, CTO of BlueStacks, is passionate about bringing cutting-edge technologies to market, based on in-depth insight and extensive hands-on experience that he has gained building large-scale production systems.

Our gratitude to...

The 43 people who contributed to our crowdfunding campaign on Ketto! Without your generous contributions, this wouldn’t have been possible.

Hemant
Rob
Haripriya
Gopal
Sanjay
Tripti
Nilu
Aparna
Anjali
Rajen
Edida
Radhika
Prabhakar

Chris
Gautam
Jaideep
Giridar
Sethuraman
Mangats
Rohini
Ritu
Jagdish
Alka
Harsh
Srisowmya
Abhilasha

Anukool
Vijay
Anita
Ratna
Vidur
Shivraj
Karthick
Saumya
Vijay
Suniye
Shashank
Uday
Subroto

In partnership with

Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer, IIT Delhi

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Recognized startup under the Startup India scheme