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How a Deaf Founder Built a Global Accessibility App in France | France News
Olivier Jeannel, a French-American entrepreneur with severe hearing loss, launched Rogervoice in 2014 to provide real-time captioning for phone calls — a deeply personal mission that turned into a global success. While the U.S. had accessibility laws, France was just beginning to address telephone access for the deaf and hard of hearing, creating a perfect market window. Supported by unemployment benefits and early French accelerators, Jeannel built the company from the ground up in France — where it still thrives as HQ, employing 80 people and serving 52 countries. With $2.5M raised and over…
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