The youthful tech inventor and entrepreneur Mateo Salvatto was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1999. Salvatto showed early signs of having a strong love for technology and a drive to change the world. He developed his talents and started a number of fascinating projects at the electronics-focused ORT Argentina.
Salvatto and his colleague won the 2016 Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, “Robotraffic” competition, earning them acclaim on a global scale when Salvatto was employed at ORT Argentina. Salvatto was inspired by this early accomplishment to develop ground-breaking products that would improve people’s lives.
With the help of people who have hearing impairments, Salvatto created the app “Hablalo” in an effort to achieve his objective. For those who are hard of hearing or deaf, Hablalo is a real-time speech-to-text translator tool that makes communication easier. After that, Salvatto’s app took off, and in just two years, it had 62,000 active users from all over the world, including North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Driven by Hablalo’s success and a desire to assist more people, Salvatto co-founded Asteroid Technologies, a software startup whose goal is to create and maintain free, game-changing products for those in need.
Salvatto has received multiple honors and recognition from esteemed institutions as a result of his dedication to using technology to create positive change. Along with these and other noteworthy honors, he has also been named the Humanitarian Innovator of the Year by the MIT Technology Review and the Best Social Innovator Worldwide by Peking University.
Salvatto is currently Asteroid Technologies’ CEO. The company is proud to list governments, banks, and real estate firms among its clientele. He also serves as the Head of Innovation at ORT Technical Schools in Buenos Aires, where he mentors and inspires the next generation of digital enthusiasts.
Salvatto has made a name for himself in the tech sector by pushing for inclusion globally and improving the lives of people with disabilities through his creative solutions and entrepreneurial drive.
