Aarush Yadav, a second-year computer science major and member of the John H. Martinson Honors Program (JMHP), secured a $500k pre-seed for his startup—The Subvocal Company—from pre-seed venture capital firm Afore Capital. Aarush’s love for building began long before his time at Tech, driving him to create robust innovations that improve your day-to-day.
Since coding a video game based on a popular book series at 8 years old, technology and innovation have been cornerstones in his life. This passion for creation led him to create his first startup, GreenSat, an Agricultural Technology company that utilized satellite data to provide actionable crop insights to small landholding Indian farmers. For GreenSat, he successfully raised $250k of venture funding and scaled it to $2M+ in annual revenue by the end of his high school career.
On his arrival at Tech, Aarush set out to build the next frontier of human-computer interaction in his current startup. The Subvocal Company sets to build a wearable that sits behind your ear and decodes your subvocalized thoughts into text to allow you to control computers and AI agents. The core function works by picking up bio signals around your face and using The Subvocal Company’s proprietary foundation thought-to-text AI model to decode these signals into text—allowing you to complete computer tasks without lifting a finger. The Subvocal Company currently has a working letter-level prototype that can spell out words using your thoughts at 30 words per minute.
Aarush credits the JMHP community as adding significant value to his experience at Georgia Tech, shaping his ideas and thought processes significantly as a student founder. Outside of the JMHP, Aarush was previously involved in Ramblin’ Hacks as a Student Head and participates in hackathons regularly. He started his work with The Subvocal Company after attending TreeHacks, Stanford University’s annual hackathon, in February. Shortly after, he and his cofounder started fundraising in late February, securing the $500k pre-seed round in 2-3 weeks from Afore Capital.
Aarush plans to take a leave of absence from college alongside his cofounder to work on scaling The Subvocal Company full-time. They seek to become the next default silent input interface for AI agents, aligning greatly with Aarush’s belief in social entrepreneurship, “creating impact while generating profit”. The John H. Martinson Honors Program wishes Aarush good luck as he continues to build and make technological innovations more accessible to all!