Asteroid

Company overview
Headquarters: Argentina
Countries of Operations: Argentina
Women owned /led: None
Year of founding: 2018
Number of FTEs : 5 to 20 FTEs
Legal status of the organization : For-profit
Company overview
Headquarters: Mexico
Countries of Operations: Mexico
Legal status of the organization : For-profit
Year of founding: 2018
Number of FTEs : 5 to 20 FTEs
Women owned / led: Founder
Care economy activities and business model
About the organization:
Asteroid is a company focused on new technologies that seek to develop innovative projects and products to provide a better quality of life to people with disabilities or in vulnerable health situations in Argentina. Asteroid's main product is Hablalo, a mobile app that is helping +75.000 disabled people to communicate better. They offer a text-to-speech translator and speech-to-text translator with no need of wifi connection.
Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable services that provide care & domestic work (e.g. affordable daycare services in rural areas), Awareness raising on the care economy through marketing, information campaigns & programmes that raise awareness & increase motivation
Stage of growth: Small scale roll-out/Early stage
Type of services: Care for persons with special needs (disabled / differently abled persons)
Number of customers (2020): Not available
Number of customers (2019): Not available
Number of customers (2018): Not available
Financials
Profitability status: Not available
Revenue USD (2020): Not available
Revenue USD (2019): Not available
Revenue USD (2018): Not available
Pathways to impact
Challenge addressed: Lack of affordable solutions to reduce amount of time spent on care and domestic work (Reduce)
Pathway to impact - 4 Rs: Reduce
Populations affected: Persons with special needs or with illnesses
Number of people served (2020): Not available
Number of people served (2019): Not available
Number of people served (2018): Not available