Welcome to the forty-first edition of our newsletter, as we celebrate 18 months, launch new AI-powered features and get selected for a global pitch competition. This newsletter is aimed at investors, collaborators, future hires and early adopters of our products.

Research and evidence on the impact of air pollution on health, performance and productivity grows every day. This is now a major area of scientific endeavour - just in the past fortnight, research has been published on brain health, allergies/asthma and dementia. For the past year our interns have been diligently pulling together and organising these sources. So we decided to pull it together in an evidence section on our website. There you can find everything from health impacts, country-specific data, links to biodiversity and climate, and sources of air pollution. We will keep adding to it, so please use and provide feedback! Please join us on our mission - Personalising Air Quality, for everyone.

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Hot off the press

• we have been named as a finalist for the TiE women entrepreneurs' prize. This is our third slot in a final in so many months - wish us luck! This includes mentoring and business development support to all finalists. We are also about to embark on a support programme via Innovate Zero and have been making the most of support from Centre for Business and Industry Transformation (CBIT)
• we loved seeing our story set out beautifully in this US-based blog. The value of community is strong in our story, so we were grateful to have the opportunity to speak about this with friends and colleagues from the Start Up Discovery school. And we are delighted to be included in this booklet of case studies for clinicians from Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)
• this week we undertook a team volunteering session in South London, digging, planting and painting. This was a great opportunity to interact as a team in a different environment (switching laptops for spades) and remind ourselves how important a healthy environment is for everyone!

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Go with us towards clean air

• to all our AirTrackers - look out for new, intuitive interpretations of your data being rolled out shortly and please provide feedback
• to potential investors - we will shortly be sending out a quarterly update so please let us know if you wish to be on the list
• we continue to be amazed by all the support we get from far and wide. Big shout outs to Helen Buchan Agniprotim Sen Tithi Raval Anushree Sreedhar Melissa Menke Lalo Sánchez Michael Solomon Mike Laflin Alice Chapman Chris Derrer Samantha Kidjo Jasmin Thomas Jon Bromwich Ann Jordan Dean MBE DL Emilie Côté Xanthe Whittaker Connor Morrison Victoria Finlay Donna Egan Caroline Murray Tom Elkins Joshua Perry Sam Kinsey-Briggs MBE MA Sam Simpson Lena Rosenior Michael Pan Harry Apperley. We hope you'll all continue with us towards clean air.

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Meet the team

This week we are reintroducing our co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer William Hicks. Will says: "A bit about my background:  I’m an atmospheric scientist with a PhD and postdoc from Imperial College London, where I focused on real-world air pollution, particularly from traffic. Over the years, I’ve worked on everything from quantifying tyre and brake wear emissions to investigating air quality in homes and on the London Underground.

"At Air Aware Labs, our goal has always been to build an app that delivers personalised exposure data that’s scientifically rigorous, but equally intuitive and engaging. I’m passionate about our product roadmap: we’re building features that will make it easier than ever to understand, act on and ultimately improve your health through better air quality decisions. It's been incredible to see AirTrack users grow more aware of their environment and feel empowered to take control of their exposure. Watching the team, science and my own journey evolve has been a wild ride. One moment I’m refining NO2 resolution models; the next, I’m writing a grant or pitching to a room full of investors. It's exciting, it matters and we’re making extraordinary progress in a sector we’re proud to be disrupting."

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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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