Air Aware Labs wins big!

Welcome to the sixty-fifth edition of our newsletter, as we win a climate innovation prize, build up work on women's health and launch a partnership with Diamond League! This newsletter is aimed at investors, collaborators, future hires and early adopters of our products.

This week we are thinking about (and doing!) innovation in air quality. With our access to compute credits at the AI Research Resource, we are able to progress our modelling including benefits for users such as lower pollution route planning. And partnering with innovative hardware companies like MedicAir means we can bring all-round insights to protect health. With CBI (Confederation of British Industry) and Clean Air Fund highlighting the economic benefits of clean air this week, we are doing our bit to turn innovation into benefits across the economy. Please join us on our mission - Personalising Air Quality, for everyone.

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Hot off the press

• we were overjoyed to win the Reset Connect climate innovation competition - the £10k prize will help us to develop our cleaner route planner and other tools to help reduce pollution exposure. On the same day we celebrated in Parliament being finalists for both SEIS Investee Company and Entrepreneur of the Year. We've also loved getting recognition in Executives Diary
• the main elements of our pilot with the London Legacy Development Corporation are now complete and we are about to embark on the Nexus collective. Alongside a new grant with researchers at University College London, this will allow us to accelerate our work on women's health, in particular helping pregnant women reduce their exposure to pollution
• we loved partnering with UrbanBetter and CELIA CIC for events spanning Clean Air Day and London Climate Action Week. The value of all types of data, including experiential data, was clear when it comes to awareness and action on air pollution.

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Go with us towards clean air

• we will be supplying air quality data to the Diamond League meet on 18 July and will have a stand on the day - come and see us! And please help us spread the word to other athletics and sporting events. Or, just for fun, check out and share our Clean Air World Cup tool
• come and see us at these events next week: London Data Week hackathon on Tuesday, and Nexus showcase on Thursday
• we continue to be amazed by all the support we get from far and wide. Big shout outs to Caroline Carlin Rebecca Lardeur Colin Spiller Sital Joshi Nicholas Lapité Veron Duberry Meric Sevgi Eren Ruaraidh Dobson Victor Tapia Olivares Katherine Marcham Kate Chapman David Savage Sally McKendry Maximilian Werner Karen Lee Louisa Criscenti-Brown Jyoti Kishnani Niklas Richardson Simon Tutton Jan Kamiński Maureen Blandford Claire Owen Alexandra Smith Sam Sweeney Alice Ingram Sam Weller Habiba Iftikhar Esme Verity Sophie Bruce Dr Moira Nicolson Marjo Palanee Mona Jaber Ben Brothers Teodora Georgieva Dr. Azeem Alam BEM. We hope you'll all continue with us towards clean air.

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Meet the team

This edition, we are re-introducing Dan Harris, our Chief Product Officer and member of our founding team. Dan says: "my career reads like someone who could never quite decide whether to be a strategist, a designer, or a builder, so became all three. Over two decades I've held design and innovation leadership roles at Fjord, Accenture and EY, working with a client list that spans Tesco, Barclays, Vodafone, the BBC, HSBC, JP Morgan and McLaren. The through-line across all of it is simple: an obsession over the truth of the customer's problem - I won't rest until it's been turned into something people genuinely love using. At Air Aware Labs, that focus points at one clear goal: making invisible air pollution something you can see, plan around, and act on before your morning commute, not after.

"Outside of work, I'm happiest when running, cycling and hiking (not together). When I'm still, I'm usually at the cinema, in a gallery, painting, or deep in conversation about music. Home life is busy: three children aged 16, 14 and 3 keep me negotiating on several fronts at once, alongside a cartoon-like golden retriever and a cat in her senior years. And when I'm not building products, I'm often travelling, though will admit to checking the air quality before booking the hotel."

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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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