Excited to finally share what I've been working on since leaving Facebook/Meta. I've joined forces with @JMRothberg to build Detect as its CEO — a consumer diagnostics company grounded in science, design & engineering. Bloomberg wrote about us: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-15/former-facebook-executive-barra-to-lead-covid-testing-startup …
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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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