Untap Health

Neil Pomeroy has joined Untap Health as our Chief Product Officer. With over two decades of experience in engineering and product development, Neil brings a wealth of expertise that will be instrumental in taking our technology into production. Neil has a proven track record of leading multidisciplinary teams and driving innovation in the medical device and life sciences sectors. Prior to joining us, he served as Vice President of Global R&D at Advanced Instruments, where he led a team of over 70 engineers and specialists across the UK and USA. His leadership roles also include R&D Director at Solentim, Technical Director at Cole-Parmer Europe, and Research and Development Manager at Bioquell. Please join us in giving Neil a warm welcome. We’re excited about the impact he’ll make and look forward to the exciting innovations he’ll lead as our Chief Product Officer!

🔦 Community Spotlight 🔦 Check out the incredible things our Imperial College London founders have been up to over the past few weeks. Congratulations to you all! 👏 🏷️ PulpaTronics have had a double win this week! First of all being named the winners of this year's The Sustainability Awards by Packaging Europe https://hubs.ly/Q02YmqtC0, and secondly winning the Tata Varsity Pitch Competition! https://hubs.ly/Q02YmhTB0 💰 WInvest Collective has won the Virgin Startup x Fiverr 2024 Female Founders Competition. https://hubs.ly/Q02YmDhM0 ❤️ Papcup have been featured in the Telegraph. https://hubs.ly/Q02YmqsP0 🛶 Qualboat have won the In-Show Public Vote at the Engineers in Business Fellowship Champion of Champions Competition. https://hubs.ly/Q02Ym8wB0 🌳 Treeconomy has been selected to collaborate with the Scottish Forestry Woodland Carbon Code and IUCN Peatland Code to streamline Code administration while enhancing confidence and trust in nature projects. https://hubs.ly/Q02Ymr5Z0 🏥 Untap Health has been awarded the GBx Best in British Tech Upstart Award 2024 in San Francisco. https://hubs.ly/Q02Ym3Xw0 💧 Deploy™ won two accolades at the Made in Britain Impact Awards including being highly commended in the Innovation of the Year category and Co-founder, Beren Kayali taking home the runner up in the Inspiring Leader of the Year category. https://hubs.ly/Q02YmCWr0 🚀 Magdrive CEO, Mark Stokes, has been featured in The Telegraph, discussing thier next big project: a spacecraft engine that runs on space junk. https://hubs.ly/Q02Ym7rh0 #OurImperial #InventedAtImperial Photo credit: Deploy™ Untap Health WInvest Collective PulpaTronics

💡NEXT WEEK: [𝐇𝐄𝐂 𝐱 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞] We are delighted to invite you to an exciting Pitch Night featuring 3 startups from HEC Paris & 3 startup from Imperial College London! Come and discover their amazing ventures!  An event in partnership with Imperial College London and HEC Paris - Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute 🏡 Where: HEC UK House, 43 Parker Street, WC2BN 5PS 🗓 When: Wednesday 20th November at 6:30pm (UK Time) 📩 Registration: https://lnkd.in/e97VgrHt 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟔 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐬: 👉 Edusign - Elliot Boucher, Co-Founder & CMO  Edusign is a secure SaaS platform for digital attendance, allowing fast signatures via smartphone and eliminating the need for physical attendance sheets, with full online functionality and reduced costs. 👉 Julaya - Mathias Léopoldie, Co-Founder & CEO  Julaya provides SMEs and merchants in Subsaharan Africa with a digital account to access financial services, from mobile banking to mobile money. 👉 Neurobus - Florian Corgnou, Gregor Lenz Based in France and in the UK, Neurobus delivers real-time, accurate in-orbit space surveillance with ultra-efficient neuromorphic computing. Partnering with Airbus, CNES, ESA, and Mercedes-Benz, we’re driving innovation in space and autonomous systems, offering low-power solutions that reduce costs and enhance mission longevity. 👉 P.Happi® | Microbiome protecting intimate serum - Dr Chiara Board, Founder & CEO Biotech start-up in the women health space. Company is commercialising a natural bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus (B.Y.M.® 1405) that can fight harmful and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the intimate area. Their first product is called P.Happi introducing a completely novel approach to protect and re-establish women's intimate microbiome. P.Happi® | Microbiome protecting intimate serum 👉 sAInaptic - Rajeshwari Iyer, Co-Founder & CEO sAInaptic uses A.I. technology to automate the marking, feedback & analytics of multi-modal assessments, beyond multiple choice questions.   👉 Untap Health - Claire Trant PhD FRSA, Co-Founder & CEO Untap provides a pathogen monitoring service to reduce transmission of infectious diseases within your community. Scientifically monitoring community health in offices, schools, care homes, colleges, hospitals, manufacturing, training facilities and more. Delphine Mourot - Haxaire Laura Saint-Lo Marie NORMANT Yuri Johanna Guillen Ortiz Wendy D. HEC Paris HEC Alumni Philippe Oster Maud Clerc Dana Mezher Inge Kerkloh-Devif Orhiane Savarese Thiago Penteado Ben Mumby-Croft James Groves

Untap Health has been awarded the GBx Best in British Tech Upstart Award 2024 in San Francisco! It was an incredible honour to win, amongst many inspiring companies, including Babylon Micro-Farms. This recognition is a testament to the progress to our mission to improve health outcomes across communities. This new award joins others we have been privileged to receive over the past three years, including Top 20 finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Top 50 Women in Innovation by Innovate UK, High Growth Woman Founder of the Year 2023 by UK Business Angels Association, Female Founder and Tech Innovation awards at Stage Two 2022. I’m now back in London, just returning from a busy two weeks meeting investors across the US, and excited to be settling into our new office in London Bridge. The support we've received is a reminder of what’s possible when you stay dedicated to making a positive impact. Thank you to everyone who has been part of our journey, including Imperial Global USA for supporting this trip. Find out more at www.untaphealth.com

This week, the British tech ecosystem gathered in San Francisco for the GREAT GBx Gala, celebrating the UK's booming $1 trillion tech sector—the largest in Europe and the third largest globally. 🦄 160+ unicorns call the British isles home. Many unicorn founders and c-suite were in the room, hailing from Netflix, Google, Slack, Stripe, Monzo, GoCardless, KeepRiskAtBay, ClassDojo, Fastly, Houzz, LinkedIn, Trulia, Cerebras Systems, Lucid Motors, and Amazon. 🔥 Our Fireside Chat was led by GBx Board Member and General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nicole Quinn, featuring Jeremy Liew, who famously wrote Snap's first VC check. Liew's impressive portfolio includes early investments in Giphy, Affirm, Blockchain, Honest, Cheddar, and Rothys—earning him multiple spots on Forbes' Midas List. 🥁 GBx welcomed Mark Charkin as our new executive director and expressed gratitude to outgoing executive director of three years, Amber Atherton. Additionally, we were thrilled to have longtime supporter and WSGR Managing Partner Daniel Glazer join GBx’s advisory board. 🏆 The Best in British Tech Awards were presented by Cal Henderson (GBx Board and Co-founder of Slack), Kathryn Parsons MBE (GBx Board and Co-founder of Decoded), and Hugh Brady (President of Imperial College). Congratulations to our winners... Upstart: Dr Claire Trant PhD FRSA, Founder, Untap Health Deep Tech Innovation: Chris Ballance, Founder, Oxford Ionics Trailblazer: Hasan Sukkar, Founder, 11x AI Our former winners include unicorns such as Calm and ClassDojo To echo HM Consul General to SF Tammy Sandhu MBE and GBx Co-chair Joe White MBE's words, we are so grateful to our partners, members, and the GBx board for making this event unforgettable. 🇬🇧 We were proud to partner with the GREAT Britain & Northern Ireland Campaign to spotlight the #UnicornKingdom and are grateful for the support from Silicon Valley Bank and our wonderful network of GBx members and sponsors. 👏 Thank you to our supporters: the Henderson Family Foundation, Imperial College London, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, NFX, Generation Investment Management, Intrinsic, Radical Tempo, Goldman Sachs, Odgers Berndtson, Merrill Lynch, Silicon Valley Internship Programme, Taylor Wessing, Uncork Capital. 🥂 And to David Carter at Deep Planet for keeping the cheer going and award-winning British bubbles flowing, with wine from Rathfinny, Gusbourne and Chapel Down. With Imperial and Entrepreneur First having opened up a base in the Bay Area and a year since a16z announced its first non-US office in London, we're so excited to see what this next year of transatlantic collaboration holds... 🚀 🌎 Michael McTernan, Pete Flint, Colin le Duc, Wendy Tan White MBE, Mike Drew, Michael Hughes, David Bates, Andy McLoughlin, Alice Bentinck.

Friday's GBx Gala filled the iconic Palace Hotel in San Francisco with the best and brightest founders and investors across the USA and UK. It was an honor to announce the Upstart Awards, honoring the next generation world changing technology companies and trailblazing leaders. Congratulations to Claire Trant PhD FRSA founder of Untap Health. Their real-time wastewater surveillance hardware can detect pathogens such as Covid-19, influenza, Norovirus and RSV to provide early warnings ahead of an outbreak.  Highly commended came Alexander Olesen founder of Babylon Micro-Farms If you ever needed a dash of hope and inspiration about what the future holds, meeting the next generation of unicorns at the GBx Gala was it. An honor to join the stage with GBx supporters and board members alike Joe White MBE, Cal Henderson, Tammy Sandhu MBE, Julian Green, Mark Charkin and President of Imperial College London Professor Hugh Brady Congratulations to Amber Atherton and Chiara Benn for making it all a reality. If you are a Brit in tech the USA (or are simply thinking about spending some time in USA and want to find out more) head to www.gbxglobal.org #GBx #Gala #UpstartAwards.

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Our Longest-Serving Team Member: Navid Aslani At Untap Health, we’re incredibly proud to celebrate Dr. Navid Aslani, our Engineering Lead and longest-serving teammate. Navid has been a cornerstone of the company, playing a pivotal role in developing our novel wastewater-based epidemiology hardware that’s central to our mission of containing illnesses today and preventing pandemics tomorrow. With a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and extensive expertise in mechatronics and medical devices, Navid brings both depth and vision to our team. His hands-on approach and leadership have guided us to achieve remarkable advancements in health technology. He’s not just solving complex problems—he’s redefining what’s possible. Navid’s dedication, creativity, and relentless pursuit of excellence inspire us all. His ability to turn ambitious ideas into tangible solutions has made a real impact on public health and has propelled Untap Health forward.

Claire Trant PhD FRSA, CEO of Untap Health and an Imperial alumna, empowers individuals to take charge of their health by providing real-time insights into health risks, allowing proactive action before illness spreads. Their groundbreaking technology detects infections early through wastewater surveillance, serving as an advanced early warning system for viral outbreaks. By identifying potential outbreaks of infectious diseases like norovirus, flu, and COVID-19, their technology can help reduce transmission within communities. Claire will be in San Francisco to mark the launch of Imperial’s new US hub and to celebrate a decade of WE Innovate—a program by Imperial Enterprise Lab dedicated to inspiring, empowering, and increasing the number of women-led startups. Explore Claire’s journey with WE Innovate and discover inspiring stories from other program alumni: https://lnkd.in/euWaASgv

[𝐇𝐄𝐂 𝐱 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞] We are delighted to invite you to a special entrepreneurial evening in partnership with Imperial College London and HEC Paris - Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute 🏡 Where: HEC UK House, 43 Parker Street, WC2BN 5PS 🗓 When: Wednesday 20th November at 6:30pm (UK Time) 📩 Registration: https://lnkd.in/e97VgrHt Join us to celebrate our entrepreneurs and participate in an unforgettable pitch night with startups from HEC and Imperial. You will have the chance to witness the future of entrepreneurship and meeting with inspiring entrepreneurs from the HEC and Imperial community. We welcome everyone, from BAs, early stage VCs, tech leaders and curious Alumni! 👉 Click on the registration link to find out more about the start-ups who will be presenting their projects! Delphine Mourot - Haxaire Laura Saint-Lo Marie NORMANT Yuri Johanna Guillen Ortiz Wendy D. HEC Paris HEC Alumni Philippe Oster Inge Kerkloh-Devif Emma Cochrane Antoine Lepretre Thiago Penteado Orhiane Savarese Elsa Pouradier Duteil Edusign Elliot Boucher Julaya Mathias Léopoldie P.Happi® Dr Chiara Board sAInaptic Rajeshwari Iyer Savoir / Dessiner Arthur Tiar Untap Health Claire Trant PhD FRSA