Nic is the Co-Founder and CEO of hearX and a visionary in digital healthcare. His experience in business ranges from being an avid start-up investor to founding seven successful start-ups.
Nic’s vision is founded on his passion for social impact with the mission to drastically reinvent the healthcare industry using digital solutions, artificial intelligence and big data.
hearX is an award-winning start-up focused on democratising access to hearing healthcare services. Its solutions aim to disrupt a $20 billion hearing aid market by levering technology to detect and treat unaddressed hearing loss for the 466 million people globally with hearing loss; by providing customers with affordable audiologist quality direct-to-consumer hearing aids. hearX is a 7-year-old, high-growth scale-up, with a staff complement of 140 based out of South Africa, and has operations in Kenya and the USA.
To date, hearX has impacted more than 1.6 million people across 86 countries, steering them towards achieving healthy hearing and improved health and life outcomes.