AirCaps

Virtual & Augmented Reality · Hearing Care & Audiology
1open role
1backers · Y Combinator
10+team · employees, estimated range
6technologies in use

Overview

AirCaps smart glasses show real-time captions and translate 60+ languages instantly. Designed for hearing loss, travel, and professionals. 97% accuracy, 49g lightweight. $599.

Funding and backers

Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
1
Y Combinator
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 2025 Went through Y Combinator Nov 1999 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
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Jobs

$150k – $220k per year · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
11/11/2026
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
100% ▼

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at AirCaps over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
81/100
Languages
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Developer tools
Claude Code
Practices & domains
Multimodal AI
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Connections

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Shared investors1
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6310 portfolio companies

News

News WIRED 1 year ago
These Transcribing Eyeglasses Put Subtitles on the World
TranscribeGlass can subtitle conversations in nearly real time and will soon be able to translate languages and tell you when the person you're talking to you is feeling socially awkward.
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News The New Yorker 1 year ago
Subtitling Your Life
Hearing aids and cochlear implants have been getting better for years, but a new type of device-eyeglasses that display real-time speech transcription on their lenses-is a game-changing breakthrough, David Owen writes.
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News New Atlas 2 years ago
Speech-captioning glasses show deaf wearers what other people are saying
Noisy environments pose a challenge to deaf people, particularly when they're trying to discern what a specific person within such a setting is saying. AirCaps glasses are designed to help, by providing real-time captioning to the wearer.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $220k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
seen since Sep 2026
New Haven United States
Regional office
470 James Street, STE 007, New Haven, CT, 06513, US
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