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Oswald Labs is an award-winning accessibility technology company that builds technology for the next billion users. Our mission is to build new technologies that help people grow, and do it in a manner promoting accessibility and equality.

Oswald Labs was founded as Oswald Foundation on August 15, 2016, by Anand Chowdhary and Nishant Gadihoke in New Delhi, India, after building the first web reading tool for people with dyslexia at a weekend hackathon, along with Mahendra Singh Raghuwanshi. Since then, Oswald Labs’ products have been used by thousands of users around the world.

You can learn more about the solutions we provide, the partners we work with, our incredible team that make this possible, or get in touch with us for more information.

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December 1, 2018Oswald Labs wins €12,500 and £10,000 awards for accessible education and employee engagement at Heerlen, NL and London, UK respectively.
October 20, 2018Oswald Labs showcases 5 new Shravan apps for people with disabilities at the Dutch Design Week 2018 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
March 27, 2018Anand Chowdhary and Nishant Gadihoke featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018 list under categories "Social Entrepreneurs" and "Youngest".
January 18, 2018Anand Chowdhary featured by Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch Financial Times) as one of the 50 most-innovative entrepreneurs and professionals in Holland.
August 15, 2017Celebrating our first birthday with rebranding from Oswald Foundation to Oswald Labs, opening our first European office in the city of Enschede, the Netherlands.
May 10, 2017Organized BharatHacks, a two-day hackathon and product incubation event in New Delhi, India, along with IBM, DigitalOcean, F6S, and more partners.
February 6, 2017Mahendra Singh Raghuwanshi, co-founder and COO, gets married in Guna, India!
December 8, 2016Accepted into the IBM Global Entrepreneur program, which gives supports early-stage startups with go-to-market support, mentorship, and cloud credits.
November 30, 2016Incubated in the London/Berlin-based EyeFocus Accelerator, the world’s first innovation program and accelerator for companies building for living with or curing blindness.
November 19, 2016Winners of Startup India Rocks! 2016 in Bangalore, India. One of the largest competitions with over 1,000 startups competing all across India.
September 15, 2016Showcased a sneak-preview of our R&D project, Shravan, the first smartphone for the differently abled at a keynote presentation at Delhi Technological University.
August 15, 2016Anand Chowdhary (CEO) and Nishant Gadihoke (CTO) founded Oswald Foundation on India’s Independence Day, along with Mahendra Singh Raghuwanshi (COO).
June 12, 2016At AngelHack Delhi 2016, Oswald for Chrome, a web reading tool for people with dyslexia, was built by Anand Chowdhary and Nishant Gadihoke, that won the Code4Impact award.

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