Waymap was founded by Dr Tom Pey. Following a successful career as an investment banker, professional dancer and academic researcher, Tom lost his vision at 39. He realised that he could either let his disability limit his life, or use it to fuel his desire to make change.

Formerly the CEO of the Royal Society for Blind Children, and a Director at Guide Dogs, Tom teamed up with world-leading mathematicians and technologists to create the world’s most precise indoor, outdoor and underground navigation app.


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Waymap was born out of a conversation Tom had with a blind young woman, who shared with him that she had recently been on a date. It had gone well, aside from the fact her and her date had been chaperoned around the tube station. This had ‘ruined the atmosphere’: she ‘just wanted to be able to get around the Underground like everyone else!'.