We believe in a future where people are empowered to understand their own health in the comfort and privacy of their homes. Our company northstar is to build a Personal Diagnostics Device that's as intuitive, affordable and indispensable to our lives as the smartphone (2/11)
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For the past 2 years as our lives were upended by this pandemic, one of the biggest challenges faced by humanity has been a massive information void — not knowing if you have a virus you could transmit to your loved ones. Solving this problem became Detect's first mission (3/11)
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We started Detect in Mar/2020. As the world was just starting to grasp what was coming,
@JMRothberg called me to share his idea for a PCR-quality rapid test. "Hugo, I need your help making millions of these." I immediately jumped in, and so it began (4/11)https://twitter.com/JMRothberg/status/1236289160253767681 …Show this thread -
Our first product is the FDA-authorized Detect™ Covid-19 Test, a PCR-quality rapid at-home test that is at least 50x more sensitive than the leading antigen tests. It's available to U.S. customers starting today on http://Detect.com for $49
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Detect Verified™ is an add-on telehealth service to the Detect Covid-19 Test that generates a CDC-compliant certified result that can be used for travel, work or school. It costs $20 per test and you get a certified PDF via email within minutes: http://Detect.com/Verified (6/11)
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How do you put the performance of a $25,000 PCR machine into the form factor of a rapid test for under $50? We removed engineering complexity through novel biochemistry, and introduced machine learning algorithms to speed up the traditional assay development process (7/11)
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Our Covid-19 Test is just the beginning. Our first-generation platform can be reprogrammed to detect any DNA or RNA-based target, and future iterations will enable testing for other types of biomolecules (8/11)
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I'm really proud of the amazing team of 100+ we've built since starting Detect in 2020. In 18 months we raised $110M in capital, received FDA authorization in record time for a medical diagnostic product, and were awarded an $8M federal contract from
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Thank you Detect investors especially:
@robinchan@adambain@annewoj23@sacca@expa@EldridgeIndust3@ForesiteCapital@gc@HorizonsHK@JTananbaum@justinkan@mkives@RicardoMarino20@sama@shishirmehrotra@stan_chudnovsky@TheFluLab@ThriveCapital@TBoehly@vik_bajaj (11/11)Show this thread
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