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Making mobility, PAWE-ssible.

3.75 million Americans use manual wheelchairs. When pushing fails, every option today breaks their car, their home, or their bank account. PAWE turns any manual chair into a powered one in seconds — no dealer, no tools, no new chair.

Why now

The market is opening.
PAWE is built for the moment.

The insurance window is opening
Medicare recently revised its power-assist coverage to encompass devices that attach and detach quickly and let the chair revert to manual — exactly what PAWE is. We file for coverage as soon as we clear the FDA.
Incumbent distribution is in flux
Our only direct competitor's North American distribution is being restructured following an acquisition. The channel is open for a lighter, simpler, user-installed alternative.
The demographic wave is beginning
The oldest Americans — the highest wheelchair-use cohort — are the fastest-growing. We anchor on working-age users to earn insurance coverage first, then meet the wave with a covered product as it crests.
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The team

The team.

We started PAWE in 2022 after watching one of Antonio’s family members navigate life in a manual wheelchair — needing a new chair every few months, requiring an accessible vehicle just to transport that wheelchair. We didn’t like the available solutions. So we built one.

Arav Tyagi
Co-CEO & Co-founder · Computer Engineering, BU
Antonio Marzoratti
Co-CEO & Co-founder · Robotics Engineering, WPI

Mentors & advisors.

Scott Harris
Co-founder of SolidWorks and Onshape · Startup scaling
Paul Kalenian
Inventor & serial entrepreneur · Hardware product development
Ray Knox
VP of Manufacturing, Terrestrial Bio · Regulatory manufacturing
The ask

We are raising our seed round.
Let’s talk.

PAWE is raising a seed round to re-engineer the product to FDA standards with our contracted development partner, carry it through safety testing and our FDA submission, and prepare a commercial launch. The round is structured in milestone-gated tranches — terms, amounts, and the full financial model are in the deck.

We have built this without venture capital — funded through grants, competition awards, and an accelerator program. Every dollar has gone into the product and the users. We are looking for our first institutional partner: someone who understands hardware, healthcare, or accessibility, and who wants to back a team that has already proven it can execute on a shoestring budget.

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