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Usound

Usound

Company Overview

Website: www.usound.co

Headquarters: Argentina

Country of Operations: Latin America

Women owned / led: At least 30% of women in board of directors

Year of founding: 2014

Number of FTEs: 20 to 50 FTEs

Legal status of the organization: For-profit

Care economy activities and business model

About the organization:
uSound is an Intelligent Hearing System that transforms smartphones into listening devices for hearing assistance. The device’s cutting-edge technology is interactive and can learn and grow from the user’s needs, helping to improve people’s quality of life for essential communication and other benefits. uSound also contributes to preventing future hearing loss by dynamically adjusting the intensity of sound frequencies to an optimal level according to the patient´s demands.

Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable services that provide care & domestic work (e.g. affordable daycare services in rural areas)

Stage of growth: Mass roll-out/Expansion

Type of services: Care for persons with special needs (disabled / differently abled persons)

Number of customers (2020): Not available

Number of customers (2019): Not available

Number of customers (2018): Not available

Financials

Profitability status: Financially profitable

Revenue USD (2020): Not available

Revenue USD (2019): Not available

Revenue USD (2018): Not available

Pathways to impact

Challenge addressed: Lack of recognition and action with regards to unfair distribution of care and domestic work (Recognize)

Pathway to impact – 4 Rs: Recognize

Populations affected: Persons with special needs or with illnesses

Number of people served (2020): Not available

Number of people served (2019): Not available

Number of people served (2018): Not available