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BuildingTravelBacked 2022

CulturePilot

Founded by Barbara Kuofie and Mariyam Khalid

Point a phone at a statue or a building and get curated audio and text about it, instead of renting a headset or booking a guide.

What they do

Image recognition does the work the audio guide used to. A museum or a city can upload a tour and have it live within hours, without building an app.

Who it's for

Travelers and museum visitors, and the museums, artists and cities that want to publish a tour.

What's different

Visitors use the phone they already carry, so there's no headset to rent and no guide to book.


What they've done, with sources
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Every Fifth Star company gets the same $25,000 check.

Contributions go into the fund that writes them. If CulturePilot exits one day, our share comes back to the fund and goes out again, which is what makes us an evergreen fund.

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