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The company plans to make money off labeling tape and third-party software add-ons. The device has a few buttons that let blind individuals type out messages, mathematics, music and other types of information in braille on a line of tape.

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Here’s a list of the companies that presented today and a brief description of what they do:Ħdot Innovations: This company has created a portable braille embosser that can quickly create braille labels. So it is geared more toward student entrepreneurs and gives them a chance to try building their own company from scratch with some help. The team of each company doesn’t have to be composed entirely of students, but the founders that are students have to hold a majority equity stake in the company. Two recipients of the Thiel Fellowship, a $100,000 award that encourages college students to drop out and start companies, have also participated in StartX. The program has received more than 1,000 applications and has accepted 24 total. Around one in every five people who have participated in StartX have been women. “The most exciting things in the Bay Area are YC, StartX, AngelList and 500 startups - the list drops off after that.” “This is going to be one of the top three accelerators in the world,” said Charles River Ventures investor George Zachary, who was an investor in Twitter.

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