Yali Mobility
Purpose-built electric vehicle for wheelchair users
Yali Mobility
About
Yali Mobility designs and manufactures an electrically powered three-wheeler built from the ground up for wheelchair users, people with locomotor disabilities and the elderly, using a patented docking system and a fully enclosed body co-developed with more than a hundred wheelchair users.
Startup Information
Company Name
Yali Mobility Private Limited
Location
Chennai
Incorporated Year
2018
Incubated With
IITM Incubation Cell
Sector
Healthcare & Biotech
Website
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Founder Details
Founder
Sakthivel Thayappahn
Designation
Co-Founder & CEO
Bio
Built his first three-wheeled personal mobility vehicle as a college project in Tiruvannamalai, then worked on assistive mobility projects at IIT Madras' CREATE lab before founding Yali.
Founder
Anil Prabhakar
Designation
Co-Founder & Director
Bio
Professor of electrical engineering at IIT Madras holding 18 patents across photonics, magnonics and assistive devices, and a co-founder of QNu Labs, Quanfluence and Unilumen Photonics.
Founder
Pradeep Thangappan
Designation
Co-Founder
Bio
A rehabilitation-engineering entrepreneur who also co-founded Enability Foundation and Unilumen Photonics.