We’re Building a More Accessible World
People with disabilities continue to face significant barriers to communication, mobility, employment, and full participation in society. While technology has the potential to dramatically expand access, the assistive technology sector remains chronically underfunded and fragmented. The journey from an idea to a commercially viable and accessible product is long and fraught with challenges, leaving many life-changing innovations unrealized. Promising ideas often stall before reaching the people who need them most.
In 2022, CPARF launched Remarkable US — the nation’s first nonprofit assistive technology accelerator — to close this gap by providing a structured, equity-centered pathway for assistive technology innovation:
- Expert coaching and mentorship from leaders in disability innovation, clinical care, and inclusive design
- User testing and community validation, ensuring products are usable, adoptable, and aligned with lived experience
- Go-to-market support to help companies reach the people who need their solutions
- Global networks that connect founders to investors, researchers, clinicians, and disability organizations
Unlike traditional accelerators that prioritize profit or rapid scaling, Remarkable US centers impact, access, and long-term sustainability. We ensure that innovation is driven by social good rather than profit.
The Future of Assistive Technology
Since its pilot year, Remarkable US has supported 17 startups developing solutions for people who are blind or low vision, people with limited mobility, individuals who require catheterization, Indigenous communities seeking early intervention tools, and people seeking greater access to employment, leisure, and communication. Learn more about them below.
Meet the 2025 Remarkable US Startups:
The Ask Grandma Project is a mobile health app developed by an Indigenous speech-language pathologist and researcher at Johns Hopkins University. The app offers Indigenous caregivers a trusted, grandmother-like voice to turn to when they’re worried about their child’s development. With warmth and cultural grounding, Ask Grandma blends developmental science with Indigenous caregiving wisdom, answering questions like “My toddler isn’t talking yet. What should I do?” The app gently guides families toward supportive services, weaving in storytelling, tradition, and reassurance. Ask Grandma bridges gaps in access, honors native culture, and empowers families with both knowledge and connection.
Blueberry Technology developed BBGo, an autonomous mobility vehicle built for airports that empowers passengers with limited mobility move independently and navigate with ease.
Glidance is shaping the future of independent mobility by harnessing the power of AI and Robotics to create Glide, the world’s first primary mobility aid to help empower millions of people who are blind or have low vision to navigate through the world with confidence and independence.
Good Trouble is revolutionizing the development and discovery of accessible games by pioneering novel approaches to accessibility-focused game production and the way disabled gamers play.
Meet the 2024 Remarkable US Startups:
Big Karma produces video games and digital entertainment starring action heroes and champions who leverage their disability to win: Phenoms — Be Impossible.
Leantime is a people-first project management system using AI and behavioral science to help non-project managers and those with ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism better manage their work.
We Hear You (R) creates assistive technology to benefit everyone, literally opening doors and turning them into gateways instead of obstacles, focusing on making the world more equitable for people with disabilities and exceptionalities.
WheelPad Designs and manufactures wheelchair-accessible modular home additions to quickly make existing homes accessible for those with mobility challenges.
Meet the 2023 Remarkable US Startups:
“We could not be more excited to welcome these companies into our 2023 cohort. All of them are solving some major challenges for people with disabilities and we believe that Remarkable can help ensure that people with disabilities are able to get access to these innovations quickly and affordably.” — Molly Lazarus, Director of Remarkable US
Aurie is building a reusable no-touch catheter system to help intermittent catheter users avoid urinary tract infections.
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Cephable (formerly Enabled Play) levels the playing field for people with disabilities by giving them new ways to control their technology that work for them.
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Hominid X develops transformative assistive grasping devices to help individuals with hand disabilities to gain greater functional independence.
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SpineX Inc. is a clinical-stage bioelectric MedTech company committed to delivering spinal cord neuromodulation technologies to improve the lives of people with neurological conditions.
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Springrose designs adaptive intimate apparel that improves quality of life for women with limited mobility.
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XR Navigation is making Audiom: The world’s most inclusive visual, auditory, and tactile digital-only map viewer.
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Meet the 2022 Remarkable US Startups:
Our innovative pilot cohort continues to excel in the assistive technology space. Biomotum was accepted into The MassChallenge HealthTech accelerator, Participant Assistive Products was chosen to be part of the SOCAP23 Global Entrepreneur Program, and WearWorks’ WayBand is now available for purchase.
Biomotum optimizes human mobility by providing intelligent and intuitive wearable systems, to a wide range of users in the medical markets and empowers individuals to live healthy and productive lives through the use of their products.
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Participant Assistive Products is on a mission to democratize quality assistive products.
We believe that no person should be left behind and we are working to help people with disabilities to fully participate in life.
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Learn More
If you’re an innovator or an entrepreneur who’s building a US-based startup that you think would be a good fit for Remarkable US, please register your interest for an upcoming accelerator program.
If you’re an investor who wants to help fund Remarkable US or invest in an existing company, please reach out to molly.lazarus@remarkable.org.