Meet Shubham Banerjee, the 13-year old CEO of the Braille printer maker Braigo Labs. This kid had no idea what Braille was until last year when he saw a fundraising flyer for the visually impaired and he wonders how blind people read, he asked his parents about it.
His father's response: "Go Google it."
So he did what his dad advised him. As he searched the web he discovered that Braille printers were highly cost, which usually upwards of $2,000.
That's what makes this 7th grader inspired to do a Lego-Braille Printer.
Built out of Lego’s Mindstorms EV3 blocks and little pieces from Home Depot, Braigo Lab’s printer turned out to function quite well. It earned Banerjee a lot of recognition too, including The Tech Awards 2014 and an invitation to the White House Maker Faire, an event that awards student entrepreneurs and innovators.
The exact amount of the investment was not disclosed, it's reported to be a few hundred thousand dollars, making Shubham the youngest tech entrepreneur ever funded by a venture capital firm.
With Intel's funding, Braigo Labs plans to build a new prototype that more resembles a regular printer, and bring it to market by next year.
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