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Invest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Learn About Our Syndicates Two friends from Turkey are bringing the latest advances in AI to people with visual impairments. Emre Sarbak was a consultant and a successful social entrepreneur. Çağrı Zaman was an architect but is now completing his PhD at MIT’s Media Lab in computer vision. Their startup Mediate is building practical tools to help people with reduced vision navigate the world. Topics covered include: Sal talks briefly about portfolio company SQZ Biotech. Brief bios of Çağrı (pronounced “Cha-ree”) Zaman and Emre Sarbak. Emre describes what Mediate does; visual impairment is one of the most limiting disabilities. Blindness causes the highest level of unemployment among the disabilities. Vision loss is a growing problem for an aging population. The ultimate goal is for a visually impaired person to be totally autonomous. Spinoff from Çağrı Zaman’s work at MIT on spatial artificial intelligence. Won MIT DesignX Challenge in 2017. Emre actually met Çağrı via a