Every day, millions of people are excluded from conversations because they cannot hear what others say well. Our CEO Thibault grew up in a Deaf family & witnessed firsthand how the world was not accessible for them. Together with our CTO Skinner — deaf since age 2 — Thibault co-founded Ava to make live captioning of conversations as easy as turning on captions on TV.

Mission • Positions • Life • Impact

Mission

We want to radically improve how we humans communicate with each other. Our first step at Ava is to empower 466M deaf and hard-of-hearing people to live in a fully accessible world.

Our small but fast-growing team has reinvented AI-based speech recognition technology to be in service of people who need it the most. We dream of a 24/7 accessible world, without any communication barrier. In this pursuit, we're seeing how critical communication skills are, yet very far from ideal, to unleash our collective potential. This is for us the ultimate barrier we need to lift.

Our belief is that well-designed technology can help everyone communicate and connect better — much more effectively & authentically — so humanity can achieve the greatest things together.

Origins of Ava • Video (#1 shared on ProductHunt) • How we changed a life (and many more)

Open Positions (Remote OK)

<aside> 🤝 Ava is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity, and that's why we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you're deaf or hard-of-hearing especially, we encourage you to let us know, as we're committed to be the most accessible workplace you've ever worked at.

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Life at Ava

We're a small team spread between two cities (San Francisco, where our Product & Growth teams are, and Paris — where our AI team is). We care about making the world a much more connected place, and we believe it's best done by a highly-creative and driven group of humans working in concert to change the current status quo. We value potential as much as experience and empathy as much as authenticity. Our culture is always evolving, and we believe new people can and should change how we operate and what we value. A few recurring themes:

• Impact first. We care deeply about building AI technologies that make total accessibility possible while being economically sustainable, respectful of privacy, and beneficial to society.
• Mountain movers. Our mission is a lofty one. It takes a lot of time, hard work, and perseverance to achieve any kind of meaningful impact. We value moves and are ready to persist to the very end.
• 1 & 1 = 3. No matter where you are from, we know that together, we are stronger. We strive for authentic and impeccable communication to get where we need to go.
• Beyond our bubble. We make Ava for people outside the Silicon Valley bubble. We go beyond our own opinions and biases to listen to our users with deep empathy.
• Growth-minded. There’s no model for what we’re building, because we’re trying something that’s never been done before. To stay on our toes, we happily commit to learning and growing every day, including when it involves giving each other authentic feedback.

Our Impact