Welcome to the fifty-fourth edition of our newsletter, as we turn two and set our strategy for 2026! This newsletter is aimed at investors, collaborators, future hires and early adopters of our products. And we have now hit 1000 valued subscribers of this newsletter!

This week we uploaded another set of new scientific articles to our evidence bank. In one, a new UK modelling study shows that electrifying bus fleets can substantially reduce nitrogen dioxide concentrations, and to a lesser extent fine particulate matter. Indoors, evidence from a specialist test facility demonstrates that effective kitchen ventilation cuts ultrafine particulate matter exposure by over 85% with minimal energy trade-offs. Finally, research from China reinforces findings highlighted in our Annual Report, showing that routine exposure to air pollutants can disrupt children’s heart-rate variability, even at relatively low concentrations. Given this huge range of scientific output, we have put together this overview of how air pollution affects health. We created Air Aware Labs to take the scientific lab into people's pockets and onto their wrists. Please join us on our mission - Personalising Air Quality, for everyone.

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Hot off the press

• we have been strategising for 2026 with our advisers and investors. These quarterly sessions are an excellent moment to take stock and set priorities. This time we welcome our newest advisers and investors and looked at how AirTrack is developing and supports our B2B commercial objectives
• this was a day before we hit two years old - quite a milestone. We took a moment to celebrate how far we've come from those early days in the Zinc venture builder
• we continue to get out and about - even in January! We have popped up in real life events like this showcase and in an international blog.

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Go with us towards clean air

• we are aiming to close our investment round very soon as have SEIS still availability so please contact us
• we have finalised our latest round of user testing for our AirCoach feature - please contact us if you want to be part of our beta testing community
• we continue to be amazed by all the support we get from far and wide. Big shout outs to Florin Craciun Lucy Parkin Colm McCabe Sangeeta S Pablo Lloyd OBE Judy Hadden Colin Spiller Mark N Hardy, CSM, CSPO Rushab Shah 🐝 Sapna Shah Jason Clark Veron Duberry Lucy Hope Linda Eziquiel🔸RandDTax Victor Tapia Olivares Christiana Stewart-Lockhart Melissa Holloway Ian Rummels Alan Debonneville Hannah Snowsill Gavin Hall Marjo Palanee Rhea Vilbar - Oplado, PMP®, PMI-ACP®. We hope you'll all continue with us towards clean air.

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Meet the team

This edition, we are meeting Dan Harris, our Chief Product Officer. Dan says “I am a product and design leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling digital products in complex, regulated, and data-intensive environments, spanning healthcare, energy, financial services, and government. My career has focused on turning hard-to-use data into products people can understand, trust, and act on, with a particular emphasis on behaviour change, accessibility, and real-world adoption. As Chief Product Officer of Air Aware Labs, I bring this experience to bear on the challenge of translating air quality science and data into meaningful, everyday decisions for individuals and communities.

"At Air Aware Labs, my aim is to build AirTrack into a trusted, personalised health platform that helps people understand how air quality affects them specifically and what they can do about it. This means moving beyond generic pollution scores to deliver context-aware insight, clear explanations, and practical guidance that fits into daily life. The longer-term ambition is to scale this capability through partnerships and platforms, so that air quality becomes a first-class health signal, embedded into how people move, exercise, live, and make decisions, ultimately reducing harm and improving quality of life at population scale."

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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