A Little Help: Maryam

I'm a problem solver. My name is Mariam Nabavi and I'm the CEO and co founder of Babbily. When my son was 18 months old, he wasn't hitting his speech and language milestones. I was told to wait and see, but I was worried we were losing precious time. So I decided to get help from a speech and language pathologist. Within six months of Playbay's intervention, he was able to put short sentences together. I realized I'm not the only parent dealing with this issue. So I started to think about how technology can empower parents to know more about their child's development through friends. I met Karla, a machine learning engineer and scientist who shared my goal of wanting to do something impactful after the planning stage and talking to other parents. The insight we discovered was that babies speak the same language universally, regardless of culture or background. We started to look for support and found out Google was inviting voice companies to its inaugural Voice and AI accelerator. Google immediately recognized we were working on something unique. They told us that if you could crack this problem, you will be a pioneer in this space. Google helped us define our objectives, track our progress, and exposed us to a vast network of resources. We are so thankful for that little help from Google. We're now more confident than ever that we can help parents to make decisions for their child with the support of technology.