accessibleGO: Making Travel more Accessible to All
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ABOUT accessibleGO
As featured on the Today Show, accessibleGO.com is a travel site for people with disabilities that offers bookings, reviews, and community information. With over 120,000 signups to date, accessibleGO was awarded first place by booking.com in a regional travel startup competition and has been featured in Bloomberg News, NYTimes,Boston Globe, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, AARP and Thrillist. accessibleGO recently expanded beyond hotels to add wheelchair van rentals, mobility rentals, cars with hand controls, flights and accessible rides.
About Miriam Eljas
As a Silicon Valley native, Miriam is serial entrepreneur who founded and exited a media company in NYC as her first foray into the startup world. Following the sale of her first company, she became a business development manager for OurCrowd, working with portfolio companies to help with growth.
She left to start her next venture when the idea for accessibleGO emerged as a tribute to her late mother who was a wheelchair user and had Multiple Sclerosis.
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