As some Americans eye the end of the coronavirus pandemic, a California tech company is just getting started.
The Public Health Company promises to help governments and businesses navigate the current pandemic and prepare for future outbreaks, using public and proprietary data sets. On Thursday, the startup raised $8 million in seed funding from Venrock, Sweat Equity Ventures, and Alphabet's Verily.
Although named for a public health service, The Public Health Company will sell its software directly. Dr. Charity Dean, The Public Health Company's cofounder and CEO, told Insider that she compares public health preparedness to cybersecurity measures that ramped up in the wake of highly publicized data breaches over the last few years.