Imperial College London recently launched an online portal that will empower startup founders to reach global investor audiences. The investment portal launch coincided with a visit by Imperial President Hugh Brady to San Francisco and the Bay Area –?home to some of the world’s most recognised and established tech companies. The new Imperial Investment Portal was launched at a showcase event where five Imperial startups pitched to tech leaders and investors at San Francisco’s iconic SHACK15 venue.
Ever since the pandemic we’ve been told we’ll need to learn to live with COVID-19, while also being warned it won’t be the last pandemic to hit us. Yet health…
Ever since the pandemic we've been told we'll need to learn to live with COVID-19, while also being warned it won't be the last pandemic to hit us. Yet
Step forward Untap Health, a startup out of London, U.K. that's presenting on the Disrupt SF Battlefield stage today with a pitch about pulling a stream of actionable risk data from wastewater. Although the processes involved (sewage collection, sending samples to a lab for analysis) still tend to be very manual, with a delay of several days or even a week before you get results. Its pair of academic co-founders, Dr Claire Trant and Dr Jay Bullen, have been working since early 2021 to bring this idea to life after meeting and clicking over the idea at Entrepreneur First.