Fortell founder spent six years building an AI hearing aid startup
RebeccaBellan · x · 2026-09-17
TechCrunch covers Fortell, an AI hearing aid startup founded by Matthew de Jonge, who spent six years on it after asking why people must be begged to wear hearing aids while nobody ever begs anyone to wear glasses.
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