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The Perkins College for the Blind has recognized over 1,400 firms which are designing and constructing merchandise particularly for individuals with disabilities. I met a handful of them at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, and I’m impressed by each these startups and their founders. — Anna
An actual sector
A broad vary of sectors had been represented at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield this 12 months, from fintech and AI to authorized tech and well being tech. However there’s a bunch of startups that significantly piqued my curiosity: incapacity tech startups.
With 16% of the worldwide inhabitants dwelling with a incapacity, the market worth of the incapacity tech market in 2023 is estimated at $25 billion, and will attain $37 billion by 2029, in keeping with a white paper offered at Disrupt by Howe Innovation Heart Government Director Sandy Lacey.