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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.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn 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\u2019s proprietary foundation thought-to-text AI model to decode these signals into text\u2014allowing 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.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAarush 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\u2019 Hacks as a Student Head and participates in hackathons regularly. He started his work with The Subvocal Company after attending TreeHacks, Stanford University\u2019s 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.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAarush 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\u2019s belief in social entrepreneurship, \u201ccreating impact while generating profit\u201d. The John H. 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