Adaptation Ventures is a new set of owners investor that focuses on disability technology and accessibility

The value of the global auxiliary technology market reached more than 22 billion dollars in 2023 It is expected to grow dramatically by 2030. Despite the potential market size, many founders build technology to help people with disabilities to struggle to secure this type of early financing needed to get their companies out of land in the first place.

Adaptation Ventures is a new owners collection in the hope of filling this funding gap by providing capital for access technology in early stage. You will support startups that build technology specifically for persons with disabilities as well as companies that have products designed for a broader market that also helps these population.

The company participated in the establishment of the two spouses, Bretani Palmer and Riche Palmer (in the picture above), both of whom are former founders of startup, owners of owners, and persons with disabilities.

Bretani told TECHRUNCH that she faced the problem of the gap in this financing directly when she tried to collect capital for her company Beyonder, a startup that provides virtual travel experiences for persons with disabilities.

She said: “The investment capital companies did not understand the disability community, or how much size, or the sales opportunities for them.” “When I was talking to the founders in the field of disability technology, there was a similar kind of consensus that many people in the start -up world and the project did not really understand the space.”

Rich, former co -founder of BrothHe found the same feelings while working on the investment side as an administrative manager, then the investor’s gospel, in the Launchpad Venture Group group, an angel investment group that focuses on startups based on technology and science.

“We knew that this opportunity exists,” he said. “We used to meet an incredible institution, and try to know the best way to get their capital.”

Despite the experience of investing in the owners of the couple, they initially began collecting a traditional project fund and raised many LPS, including influential investors and high -value individuals. While they saw some traction on the idea of ​​their original box, some of this benefit dried up alongside the changing novels in the industry, and beyond, surrounding the diversity, fairness and inclusion that came with the new presidential administration.

They also found that high -value individuals were more interested in participating directly with startups in this field, instead of working as LPS in a box, and began to think about building a owners’ group instead.

“We have benefited from the owners of the owners who took early bets on us,” Rich said. “We are both persons with disabilities. We have come out and learn that, as you know, there are no owners groups in this field. There is no first money that companies help move from point A to point B” crazy. “

Adaptivity Ventures plans to invest at least $ 250,000 in each company with a joint investment option as well. Bretani said the group will hold quarterly meetings that include at least four stadiums and investors vote on companies that must reach the stage of due care.

There are a lot of possible companies that fall under the investment strategy in the group that Rich described, making big things the smallest and cheapest expensive things.

Companies that fit the group thesis can include something like RebokehThe company that builds auxiliary technology for low -vision people. It also includes companies that do not focus on accessibility, but they can also help those disabilities tonalRich, for example, makes exercise easier for those who suffer from disabilities that prevent them from holding physical weights.

Rich jokingly said that with the couple’s couple contracts for the husband in the world of startup and investment, they were playing this new role over the past ten years, “said Rich jokingly said that with the couple’s collective contracts in the world of startup and investment, they were practicing this new role over the past ten years.

He said: “I am one of the survivors of the blood vessels in the brain.” “I had temporary and permanent disabilities as a result. (Brittani) is a dual amputation. It is difficult not to notice these things or hear these things from us. So we attracted the founders in this space and invested as angels over the past few years.