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AI hearing aid startup Fortell raises $163 million

TechCrunch reports that co-founder and CEO Matthew de Jonge spent six years building Fortell, motivated by his grandparents’ reluctance to wear hearing aids.

TechCrunch reports that Fortell raised $163 million to take on a hearing aid market dominated by five companies. Its Equity interview with co-founder and CEO Matthew de Jonge explores why investors think AI can change that market. According to TechCrunch, de Jonge spent six years building the startup, driven by a question: why did he have to beg his grandparents to wear hearing aids when nobody needed to ask him to wear glasses?

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AI hearing aid startup Fortell raises $163 million

TechCrunch reports that co-founder and CEO Matthew de Jonge spent six years building Fortell, motivated by his grandparents’ reluctance to wear hearing aids.

TechCrunch reports that Fortell raised $163 million to take on a hearing aid market dominated by five companies. Its Equity interview with co-founder and CEO Matthew de Jonge explores why investors think AI can change that market. According to TechCrunch, de Jonge spent six years building the startup, driven by a question: why did he have to beg his grandparents to wear hearing aids when nobody needed to ask him to wear glasses?

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“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?” That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge to spend six years building Fortell, an AI hearing aid startup that recently https://spr.ly/6017BGTgjD
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How Fortell is using AI (and $163M) to crack a hearing aid monopoly | TechCrunch
Watch as Fortell co-founder and CEO Matthew de Jonge joins Equity to dig into how the startup raised $163 million to take on a hearing aid market dominated by five companies, and why investors think AI can change it.
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“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?” That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge to spend six years building Fortell, an AI hearing aid startup that recently https://spr.ly/6017BGTgjD
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How Fortell is using AI (and $163M) to crack a hearing aid monopoly | TechCrunch
Watch as Fortell co-founder and CEO Matthew de Jonge joins Equity to dig into how the startup raised $163 million to take on a hearing aid market dominated by five companies, and why investors think AI can change it.
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@TechCrunch“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?” That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge to spend six years building Fortell, an AI hearing aid startup that recently https://spr.ly/6017BGTgjD

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