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Untap
Community health monitoring
- 1-20 employees
- Healthcare
- B2B
- Science
- 39A Queens Row, SE17 2PX, UK
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Company mission
To completely change how we live alongside viruses and bacteria, by developing new technologies for measuring our risk within the built environment, to protect community health.
Insights
33% female employees
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
The COVID-19 pandemic forced society to alter its relationship with viral infections, highlighting the issues with waiting for symptomatic signs to know that someone is infectious. Untap delivers scientific monitoring of community health for offices, schools, hospitals, care homes, and more, by wastewater surveillance that can detect minute amounts of viruses or bacteria.
The company’s wastewater surveillance involves aggregating a building’s wastewater over the day, which is then PCR tested on-site, with the capability to detect one infected person in 10,000 healthy people.
With impressive 96% positive detection rates, and 100% negative detection rates, Untap delivers a highly effective monitoring system suitable for a range of risk-of-transfer communities. Its system has already been used by the UK government to detect local COVID-19 outbreaks across the country, and the company has netted impressive funds to continue development and grow its team as it brings the product to market.
Benefits
- Flexible hours, split between in office and home working
- Rapid career progression
- 28 days holiday with five days annual rollover
- Professional development allowance for conferences and courses
Company values
- Honesty
- Integrity
- Social inclusion
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2022
$0.2m
SEED
$0.2m
Total funding
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Founders
Claire Trant PhD
(Co-Founder & CEO)Fellow at The RSA, with a PhD in Materials Science. Specialist Research Consultant at Te-Tech. Co-founded FIBREGEL LTD.
Jay Bullen PhD
(Co-Founder)Visiting Scientist at Imperial College London, with a PhD in Earth Science and Engineering. Experience in Research Engineering.