Unima

Fast and low-cost diagnostics for real time disease surveillance

Y CombinatorWinter 2016InactiveHealthcareDiagnosticsHealth TechBiotechDiagnostics

What they do

Problem

Diseases are hard to diagnose quickly and affordably at the point of care, limiting real-time surveillance and outbreak response.

Solution

Unima provides fast, low-cost point-of-care diagnostics that deliver results in about 15 minutes without lab equipment and feed into real-time disease surveillance.

Who it's for

Clinicians and healthcare workers in the field and at care sites who need rapid, low-cost testing and surveillance data.

Founders

Rodrigo Nuno

Founder

Founder on Unima. I worked on varios different aspects of the company. Was in change of manufacturing veterinary products, quality control, manufacturing, purchases, operations, contract manufacturing and IT. When we transition Unima from vet product to diagnostic, I continue working as head of manufacturing and started working as Director of engineering. As Director of engineering I was in charge of insfrastructure, architecture, developing, hiring and all tasks related to a small team.