COVID-19 Response

Renegade.bio is accelerating the capacity to test novel pathogens such as COVID-19. Renegade.bio is an agile team of science, technology, and logistics experts, mobilizing in the public interest to make fast, safe, regular coronavirus testing accessible to all—starting with healthcare workers, first responders, and other health and safety workers. Our technology, the renagade XP COVID-19 testing methodology, gives organizations responsible for public health and safety the ability to rapidly and cost-effectively scale up the distributed collective capacity that is urgently needed for widespread, ongoing COVID-19 testing.

Chronomics is an AI-driven platform unlocking the power of epigenetics for personalized healthcare. We aim to drive the burgeoning data-driven wellness and personalized healthcare genomics industries by revealing epigenetic factors affecting welfare and chronic disease. Our platform will leverage our expertise in DNA-methylation analysis to give customers unprecedented insight into their changing state of health and welfare and provide them with a powerful tool for better living.

Developing a diagnostics platform through CRISPR; powered by novel & proprietary Cas enzymes.

OpenTrons is making the “personal computer” of lab robotics to bring digital fabrication to the wetlab.The OT.One is the first affordable, open-source, easy-to-use liquid handling robot to hit the market. It is run from Mix.Bio, an online biotech development platform that lets you design, share, and run automated protocols.

Youibot is a robotic company providing autonomous mobile robotic solutions in manufacturing, maintenance, and inspection. Youibot’s autonomous mobile robot platform is based on the latest generation of laser radar and visual real-time SLAM for map creation and navigation technology. Equipped with indoor and outdoor robot navigation systems, Youibot provides domestic first-class intelligent mobile robots.

R-Zero Systems is the first company built from the ground up to tackle the transmission of pathogens in the COVID-19 era, making UV-C disinfection technologies accessible to all. Founded to help businesses protect what matters most, R-Zero’s suite of thoughtfully-designed, hospital-grade technologies and science-backed protocols reduces the transmission of pathogens and diseases they cause—from the coronavirus to the common cold.

We are a passionate team of engineers, designers, and problem solvers. Started out of MIT in 2011, Formlabs is committed to bringing innovative and sophisticated fabrication tools into the creative hands of designers, engineers, and artists around the world. An unprecedented convergence of design, performance, and accessibility, the Form 1+ brings professional-quality 3D printing to a broader audience.

Verdex has developed a nanofiber material that makes better masks for caregivers. Coronavirus virions are spheres with diameters of approximately 125nm. The smallest particles are 60nm, and the largest are 140nm. N95 masks are designed to shield 95% of objects down to 300nm. Verdex’s masks use nanofibers plus a proprietary resin to shield against objects less than 100nm, including the coronavirus. In addition, Verdex’s masks improve filtration, are twice as breathable as, and will be priced comparably to N95 masks. Verdex will shortly be producing sample masks and is working with US manufacturers to make masks locally (eliminating supply-chain risk). The company is based in Virginia, and the nanofiber material’s inventor and the Company’s co-founder, Larry Marshall played a leading role in the development of DuPont’s Tyvek and was a DuPont Fellow.

Strados offers a COPD feedback monitoring system that provides automatic reports to doctors on unusual lung activity in patients. The company’s RESP product allows one respiratory professional to remotely monitor the conditions of at least 10x the number of patients than otherwise possible, providing continuous lung monitoring to determine which patients are getting worse and when. The system enables enhanced patient monitoring for overloaded hospitals, while also reducing patient and health care provider contact and exposure risk to COVID-19. The product is available now for research and on a compassionate use basis, with clinical trials at leading hospitals ongoing. Read more about it in the Philadelphia Business Journal and in metagadget.

• Revolutionary E-Stethoscope for Remote Patient Monitoring

Circadia offers personalized sleep therapies using wireless monitoring, learning diagnostics, and preventive insights. We provide virtual symptom checking and sleep assessment, personalized evidence-based therapies, contactless monitoring with medical-grade accuracy, and learning diagnostics and preventive tips.

Prellis Biologics is a newly-founded company developing novel technology to bioprint vascularized human tissues. Prellis Biologics is dedicated to providing better drug testing options and tissues for human transplant, including solid organs, connective tissues (tendons, ligaments), and secretory tissues.

CITYDATA measures the presence, density, and movement of people to build digital replicas for smarter cities and real-world businesses. We measure citizen impact across 1,569 cities on a global scale. Our mobility data, APIs, visualization apps, and geospatial AI platform provides fresh, accurate, anonymized, and daily insights that reveal the influence and impact of the physical environment on the behaviors, actions, movements, choices, and preferences of people.

Ao Air’s facewear allows users to live without fear of airborne pathogens and air pollution. Ao Air facewear uses advanced nano-fiber technology to clean and filter air, protecting the user while providing unparalleled comfort. Our technology has been independently tested to provide protection up to 50 times better than the traditional, market-leading analogue competitors.

Intrinsic Medicine is a venture capital-backed, clinical-stage therapeutics company pioneering the development of human-equivalent, bioactive compounds as new medicines, initially focused on oligosaccharides found in human milk. Our pipeline of candidates modulates the gut-brain axis directly through the immune system and enteric nervous system and modulates the gut microbiome and metabolome.

For people with chronic lung disease who want to live a normal, active life, Diadem’s inhalable exosomes are the preferred therapeutic option. Our affordable, easy-to-use product is the only therapeutic that targets inflammation at its source, enabling patients to run, dance, and shout for joy for longevity and prosperity.

mFluiDx is developing a low-cost microfluidic diagnostic to detect COVID-19 in under 15 minutes in decentralized settings. Their chip is as simple and cheap as paper tests, yet has DNA/RNA level sensitivity able to diagnose onsite.

Optimize.Health (formerly known as Pillsy) makes life easier for the two-thirds of Americans who take pills and their families. The PillsyCap seamlessly tracks when you take pills and talks to our mobile app, which sends smart reminders when you forget. We also provide access to important information about drug and vitamin products, including pricing, symptom tracking, and the ability to refill within the app.

OaCP’s objective is to provide diagnostics laboratories and research institutions with fast FISH and fast PCR solutions that will disrupt diagnosis times and costs. OaCP offers patented reagents for genomic applications, such as accelerating genetic cancer diagnostic tests from three days to two hours.

HabitAware can help users become aware of hair pulling, skin picking, and nail biting and take control. Retrain your brain away from compulsive behaviors with Keen, a smart bracelet that vibrates on a users wrist to remind you that your hands are not where you want them to be.

Aanika Bio leverages synthetic biology to build a suite of solutions that can trace and authenticate various products in the supply chain. Our tags are safe and edible, but can withstand the harshest of conditions, providing customers with information when and where they need it most.

EMBER Medical is the creator of the fastest growing SaaS-based telemedicine platform in MENA. EMBER has developed a comprehensive and affordable platform that allows doctors in more than 24 different specialties to communicate with patients, remotely monitor them, and prescribe/order needed medications and labs. With our wide range of features, doctors and patients can rely solely on our platform for all their interactions.

The Lief is an ultra-thin wearable patch that measures your heart and breath. Lief teaches you to control your body’s natural stress response through gentle, safe biofeedback exercises. Lief also supports clinicians in monitoring and treating their mental health patients.

Chekk is a digital identity leader providing secure end-to-end, know-your-customer solutions that remove the pain and costs of interactions between financial institutions and their retail and corporates customers. Capabilities include dynamic customer due diligence at on-boarding and KYC refresh; connectivity to people and business registries, AML lists, company hierarchies, and pre-population; electronic verification of identity with OCR, face matching, proof of life, and anti-fraud for individuals, directors, and UBOs; and secure data wallet and messaging for consent, data portability, alerts, and statements.

Primitives Biodesign is a materials company that produces biodegradable plastics that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food waste and plastics pollution. Utilizing biopolymers from nature, Primitives’ flexible films sense and respond to the environment—enabling food packaging to monitor quality, improve safety, reduce the environmental footprint, and return to the earth by breaking down into compost in backyard and industrial environments.

Stae has built a COVID Open Data Hub that provides easy access to COVID-related datasets to help civic leaders manage and improve response and recovery efforts.

-Link to the dashboard that is available online: (https://covid-19.municipal.systems/)