Welcome to the fifty-seventh edition of our newsletter, as we focus on women's health, have our fifth blog published by the World Economic Forum and continue our preparations to launch our AirCoach feature! This newsletter is aimed at investors, collaborators, future hires and early adopters of our products.

With International Women's Day last weekend, we have been revisiting the evidence we have pulled together about the impact of air pollution on women. There are gender disparities in women's lifestyles leading to greater risk of exposure to pollution, as well as biological differences meaning the physiological effect can be more severe. This relates to respiratory, cardiovascular, dementia, cancer, fertility and pregnancy impacts. More positively, we took the opportunity of 8 March to celebrate women working in air quality. Please join us on our mission - Personalising Air Quality, for everyone.

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Hot off the press

• this week our CEO had the opportunity to present some of this evidence and solutions at the WHH Women’s Health Horizons alongside the Deputy Mayor of London and other distinguished speakers. We are seeing more interest in fertility and pregnancy issues in particular, including this highlight from Dearbump‍
• on wider health issues, we have had our latest blog published by World Economic Forum covering the blind spot in wearable technology: the environment. We argue bringing air quality data directly onto wearable devices could have a huge impact on preventative health. We have also been looking at air pollution levels during sporting events with the upcoming London marathon in mind
• we have launched a partnership with FuturePlus to include air quality in their ESG framework. We are excited to give air pollution greater visibility with the companies in their network. And we have been promoting our work with BridgeAI at their showcase and joining the UK Clean Air Champions conference.

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Go with us towards clean air

• we are pitching at the Rare Founders event on Tuesday 17 March in London, as well as at the QMUL competition on Thursday 2 April - come to support us!
• if you are interested in being an Ambassador for our new AirCoach feature when it launches in April, please get in touch!
• we continue to be amazed by all the support we get from far and wide. Big shout outs to Zoe Metcalfe Melissa Holloway Ben Brothers Roddy Weller Ivana Lovric Nikola Wójcik Sally McKendry Ben Brabyn Mack Barnhardt Michael Winslow CMgr CCMI, FRSA, FCIPS, Alison Paul Zara Ransley Vasily Alekseenko Judy Hadden Kofo Mary A Jemma Blake Darya Simanovich Drew Stewart Dr Israa Siddig Nina van Schaick Dean Flewell-Smith Colin Spiller Sandra Roycroft-Davis Jim McQuaid Véronique Rapetti Colm McCabe Najib Rahman Dr. Kayla Schulte Molly Taylor. We hope you'll all continue with us towards clean air.

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Meet the investor

This edition, we are re-introducing Alan Debonneville, who as Co-founder of Arcanys Ventures has provided follow on investment in our current round. Alan says: "As a hands-on investor with engineers embedded directly in the Air Aware Labs team, Arcanys Ventures has had a level of visibility into this company that few investors get. What we observed over the first 12 months left no doubt: Air Aware Labes operates with a fast pace of innovation, rigorous engineering execution, and a communication culture that is proactive, transparent, and built for scale.

"Louise, Will and Sacha are the kind of founders who combine technical depth with operational clarity. They flag risks early, make decisions quickly, and hold their team to a high standard without losing momentum. That combination is rare.

"This is precisely why we chose to follow on. At Arcanys Ventures, we reinvest when the evidence is compelling, not as a matter of policy. In this case, the evidence was clear. We are confident in where this company is headed. The founding team has demonstrated that they can execute under pressure, and the market they are going after gives that execution real room to matter."

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Get in touch

Please follow Air Aware Labs to stay in touch with our progress. If anything in this newsletter has piqued your interest, please send me (Louise Thomas) or William Hicks a message! You can also email us at hello@airawarelabs.com

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