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Natalia Mykhaylova’s Toronto-based company WeavAir sells sensor and data-collection technology designed to improve air quality, cut maintenance and energy costs, and improve efficiency in places ranging from mass transit hubs to hotels.
Customers and prospective buyers started asking for something that would measure viruses and bacteria in the air after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic last year, but the technology didn’t exist. Mykhaylova, whose background includes degrees in chemical engineering and pharmacology, decided to build it.
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