KinTrans is a state-of-the-art system that allows hearing impaired to communicate with others by translating sign language into voice and text in real time, naturally without any sensors or electronics on the hands, unlike other systems in the same field that record and then translate. It was founded in Sep'13 with initial seed funding of $24,000 from Dubai based accelerator TURN8 (DP World initiative).
KinTrans Logo and slogan 'Hands Can Talk' represents the core of their vision in the product. The logo has the shape of Clover Flower or the luck flower according to the Arabic culture. "Here it represents the communication, which is the gift we are trying to give to the hearing impaired back," says the CEO.
It provides an integrated device (hardware and software) that allows the translation of sign language into voice & text. Service providers can install KinTrans at information desks and other appropriate locations to facilitate communication between the hearing impaired and the service provider. The next stage of KinTrans will be a mobile based application targeting the hearing impaired people themselves, to enable them to communicate anywhere and during phone calls as well.
"We believe in KinTrans that the good vision attracts talents. We are partnering with organizations like Intel and Microsoft who believe in what we are doing right now, KinTrans is Microsoft BizSpark member, Intel Development Partner, Egyptian Council of Deafness," says Mohamed Elwazer, the founder.
KinTrans is currently in the process of securing seed funding of approximately $550,000 from a strategic investor in the UAE and seeks to raise between $2 million and $3m in its second round of funding in the future. This will help KinTrans achieve their vision of helping the hearing impaired people with a set of solutions that will enable them to communicate again with the community. The sign language translator is the first step along the way. They envision to create the first Global digital library for different sign languages, which will help in sign language analytics and reporting to have a unified sign language across the world.
Kin Trans has been the Dubai Regional winner in SeedStars World . It has also been nominated as one of the best accessibility project from Egyptian ministry of communication, has been chosen among 400 international projects to be accelerated in Dubai at TURN8 accelerator.
As a message for future Entrepreneurs, the CEO says, "The vision draws the future of your start-up, choose a vision that you truly believe in and other will believe in you & support you. And choose an investor that truly believe in what you are doing."
This team is led by people with a cumulative experience of 40 years in the field of Entrepreneurship, Image Process, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering and R&D.
Mohamed Elwazer, KinTrans Founder & CEO, computer system engineer. He is young and passionate engineer who lead a lot of successful Events, e.g. Program Manager of 'Egyptian Engineering Day' held by IEEE.Ayman Taha, KinTrans Co-founder & COO. An IT manager at 'Egyptian Ministry of Communication'. He holds a MBA degree & specialized in the field of finance & business development.
Dr. Hazem Said, KinTrans CTO. He is Instructor of Image processing & Data Structure. He got his PhD in ‘Building sophisticated Algorithms’ that forms the core of KinTrans system.
Dr. Mahmoud Elfouly, KinTrans CBDO. A full time Business Development Director & Professional Life/career Coach accredited with more than 5000 Hours of coaching & consultation for individual/ Executives/Business Owners.
Dr. Thanos Mitrelias, KinTrans Business Mentor & Director. He has been in the forefront of entrepreneurial and scientific activities in Cambridge for over 14 years; Founding CEO "Cavendish Nano Therapeutics" & Director 'Cambridge Bio Magnetics'.
Pixelbug, KinTrans Technical Mentor. A leading Augmented Reality & Gestures Control Company in the MENA Region.
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