How is your business helping to solve the health, social, or economic challenges created by COVID19?
Prior to being tested a member of the public has no means of identifying when they have been or are exposing themselves to potential risk of infection. We want to make citizens and residents aware of the potential risk of Covid-19 infection through their movements or when taking a journey. As people are the primary means of transmission, we need to be able to identify if an infected person in the community may have come into close contact with any other person. However, this needs to be done in a secure and privacy preserving way. We do this by using a mobile phone as a proxy for a person, as its movements will directly correlate to the movements of its owner.The outcome is that the citizen gets a Red, Amber or Green indicator (or risk score) of their risk of infection, which can then cue them for testing as required. This:•Gets people at greatest risk of infection into testing as fast as possible. It sets the priority for testing;•Ensures that testing facilities detect more infected people faster; which,•Makes the best use of testing facilities and test kits;•Slows the spread of Covid-19 and reduces the death rate.Note that Covidra is working separately with health organisations in order to inform automatically the priority for testing of individuals at risk, and to feed into the logistics for ordering test kits.
Does your business contribute most to recovery, response, or resilience?
Response - we're responding directly to issues caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
What is the stage of your product development?
I do not have a physical product or prototype
What strengths does your team bring? Include skills and personal experience with the problem.
The team is very committed. They are smart, hard-working people with a very strong product focus. They work extremely well as a team despite being in distributed locations across Europe. They have over 100 years of collective business experience in a wide range of business situations with one member, Patrick Curry, having spent time in the British Army and operated in an active war zone. Rob Leslie is a serial entrepreneur having grown and successfully exited a number of businesses during his year. Miguel De Vega holds a Ph.D in mathematics with particular expertise in cryptography and Peter Barry is a professional accountant having previously been the CEO of a major Irish Credit Union.
What countries do you operate in?
Ireland, UK, Malta, USA, Switzerland, Singapore
Is your company headquartered in a US "Opportunity Zone"?
No
