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Benetech

www.benetech.org

 
Jim Fruchterman, Benetech`s founder and CEO, was an engineering student at Caltech when he learned how pattern recognition technology could guide a missile to its target. “If you could use this technology to recognize tanks or bridges,” Jim thought, “perhaps you could also recognize letters and words. Then we could use software to read those words aloud to people who are blind.” Years later, after a stint as a rocket engineer, Jim cofounded a VC-backed tech company called Calera Recognition Systems. Calera invented the first successful machine that could read almost any printed font without requiring human training. The products based ...
  • Number of Employees: 100-250
  • Annual Revenue: $0-1 Million
  • www.benetech.org
  • 480 California Ave Suite 201
    Palo Alto, AB USA 94306
  • Phone: 650.644.3400

Executives

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Funding

Benetech raised $42.5M on 11/02/2017

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