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your business without language barriers
we provide voice recognition and transcription
services for African and Asian languages
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your business without language barriers
we provide voice recognition and transcription
services for African and Asian languages
About
story:
grant, Uliza's ceo and co-founder, began thinking about how to make phones better information portals for people who speak local languages while working in Sierra Leone. This idea eventually became Uliza when he met Maity and Janeth at Tufts university.
today, Uliza provides transcription, translation, and customer services for businesses in africa and asia. We use crowds of language experts to turn-around tasks in as quick as 5-minutes. We use the work of the crowds and machine learning to build automated natural language processing in local languages.
About
story:
grant, Uliza's ceo and co-founder, began thinking about how to make phones better information portals for people who speak local languages while working in Sierra Leone. This idea eventually became Uliza when he met Maity and Janeth at Tufts university.
today, Uliza provides transcription, translation, and customer services for businesses in africa and asia. We use crowds of language experts to turn-around tasks in as quick as 5-minutes. We use the work of the crowds and machine learning to build automated natural language processing in local languages.
Team
Team
team uliza
Uliza's team brings years of experience in behavioral economics, finance, software development, and linguistic data.
grant bridgman
chief executive officer
Grant has a background in applying technologies for development, behavioral economics, and startups in Africa. Grant began thinking about how to make phones better information portals for people who speak local languages when he was in Sierra Leone working with MIT. This idea became Uliza when he met Maity and Janeth. Grant is based out of Nairobi and Cape Town.
abhishek maity
chief financial officer
Maity has a background in mathematics and finance. He has worked as a management consultant in the United States, and has experience as an economics teacher in India and in startups in Lebanon and the United States. Maity is a scrupulous data wizard. He is based out of Washington, D.C.
janeth jepkogei
chief technology officer
Janeth is a computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and has worked as a technology analyst for Deutsche Bank. A native Kiswahili speaker, Janeth is based out of Raleigh, NC.
ashir borah
machine learning developer
Ashir is a computer scientist specializing in machine learning at Dickinson College. He has experience in building neural networks and web-development, and is a native Hindi speaker.
nicholas brown
developer
Nicholas is a tenacious developer with the ideal mindset for a young tech-startup. He has an undergraduate degree in biochemistry and graduate degree in public health, and he is an impressive self-taught software developer, focussing on web-development. He is based in Washington, D.C.
our advisers:
lisa braden-harder | Harvard University; Appen Linguistic Data, founding CEO
johan wikman | Appen Linguistic Data, CTO
robert on | UC Berkeley; Google
janet cahn | AT&T, Senior Voice User Interface Designer; MIT Media Lab
News
News
uliza news & updates
2018
august
- We start work with the Mozila Foundation, building a Hindi speech recognizer
- We completed answering over 2,500 local language internet search questions for people in Dharavi, Mumbai
june
- Welcome to Nicholas! Our new Developer.
april
- We were one of 9 startups selected to join the 3-month Venture Incubation Program hosted at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business's MTN Solution Space
march
- We were selected from 230 applicants to participate in a 5-day design sprint at the MTN Solution Space at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business
january
- We launched a partnership with &Wider
- We're preparing to pilot a project with Swansea University in India
- We presented at the Mercy Corps Innovation Market Place in Nairobi
2017
december
- Welcome Stephen! Our new business development manager
november
- We secured our first external seed investment
september
- We transcribed 21 audio hours of Kiswahili in a week!
- Welcome Ashir! Our first Machine Leaning Developer
june
- We launched an IVR platform for Refunite in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- We launched an IVR platform for Sauti Africa in Kenya
may
- We began collaboration with The Busara Center for Behavorial Economics in Ghana
april
Uliza NYC investors roadshow
2016
december
- We were selected as a finalist in the InnovateAFRICA $100K competition
october
- Uliza is a registered LLC in Delaware
september
- The pilot was a success! We served 600 users and over 1,400 questions from all over Kenya.
july
- We built and piloted a prototype in Kiswahili in western Kenya
may
- We are selected as the semifinalists in the Mass Challenge, Boston
april
- Uliza won runner-up prize at the Tufts $100K Competition
march
- We are selected for the Boston finals of The Hult Prize
february
- Uliza is showcased at the Harvard Africa Business Conference