Air Aware Labs takes off

Welcome to the fourth edition of our newsletter, which has been flying off the stands! This newsletter is aimed at investors, collaborators, future hires and early adopters of our products.

Air pollution is a 24/7 problem and we're not getting much sleep working out how to tackle it! It affects us from the moment we lace up our running shoes, through our daily commutes, taking our children to school, inside our homes, and as we navigate our workspaces. It causes 6 million sick days each year in the UK alone. Globally it is holding back GDP by 6%. Air Aware Labs is on a mission to reduce personal exposure for everyone, all the time.

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Hot off the press

• we’ve recently launched our new website - airawarelabs.com. Check it out and please give us some feedback
• Louise pitched on Tuesday night to Launch Club Capital's event for female founders and got some great feedback
• we've published our first set of results from user interviews, focused on families. We were taken by the contrast between 87% of parents and carers surveyed being at least somewhat concerned about air quality and yet over 50% feeling uninformed.

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Go with us towards clean air

• angels wanted! We're on the lookout for individuals who share our passion for health and the environment and want to support our business journey. This is your opportunity to play a pivotal role in achieving huge impact! Please get in touch to request a deck
• we have benefited from amazing advice and connections inside and outside Zinc. Shout outs for recent support from Adrian Jones Ammar Khan Helen Stewart Zhenghong Liu Julian Dowling Elinor Wakefield OBE Ravi Nar Richard Ng Matt Whitney Amanda Vine Simon Brown Nitesh (Tesh) Srivastava Felicity O'Kelly Colette Harris Vivek Ghiya Julie Blane Moe Hanafy Alex Cheswick Tom Maverley Geoffrey Lloyd Adesola Adebowale Patrick Lee
• getting our message out is vital. So please tag us, link to us, send people our way. Our mission at Air Aware Labs is to provide personalised health insights from air pollution data. While targeted advice to reduce exposure to air pollution is recognised as an important health protection measure, there is a gap in robust real-world tools. We aim to fill that gap.

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Meet the team

This week we are meeting Yiqun Han, our Chief Medical Officer. Yiqun is a dedicated researcher at Imperial College London, specialising in the interdisciplinary realms of medicine and environmental science. Holding a Bachelor of Medicine and a PhD in air pollution and human health, his research interests centre around assessing environmental stressors on a personal level and understanding the health impacts across diverse populations. With rich experience in large-scale epidemiological projects across varied environments from Europe to China/Africa, Yiqun has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications. He's deeply passionate about advocating public awareness and driving behaviour change towards cleaner environments and better health – a key focus at Air Aware Labs.

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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!

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More newsletters

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• Pavandeep Rai here
• Marjo Palanee here
• Donna Egan here
• Josh Piddock here
• Guy Naor here
• Veronika Bridgman here
• Lisa Rickers here
• Natalia Baltazar here