Middle - Cohort I Founder Spotlight

Who is Amelia?

Amelia Vincent is not your typical founder. A Product Design and Engineering student at the University of Lincoln — graduating with a first — Amelia spent years working as a support worker for adults with learning disabilities before and during her studies. That's not a line on a CV. That's the entire reason Middle exists.

She loves building things. She has the engineering background to do it. And she has the lived experience to know exactly what problem she's solving.

Why is Amelia building it?

Non-verbal children have things to say. The systems around them often can't hear it.

Amelia watched this through her work as a support worker — the frustration, the missed communication, the way people on the outside struggle to understand what someone is trying to express. She didn't just want to raise awareness about it. She wanted to build something that fixed it.

What did Amelia build?

Middle is a device that gives non-verbal children a way to communicate. Amelia didn't just come up with the concept — she built a working prototype and showcased it live on the 27th May at the pitch day at Revolut HQ.

The idea is rooted in the social model of disability — the problem isn't the individual, it's the systems around them. Middle redesigns that system.

Simon Squibb and the panel loved it.

Where is Amelia taking it?

Over the course of the accelerator, Amelia grew enormously — as a founder, as a pitcher, and as a builder. She left having delivered one of the most memorable pitches of the day in front of a room full of investors.

Now she's focused on one thing: securing investment to take Middle from prototype to fully built product, and getting it into the hands of the families who need it.