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Founder’s Diary: Welcome Matibabu and PEAT

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09 May Founder’s Diary: Welcome Matibabu and PEAT

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In the second round of our Accelerator Program in Darmstadt we are happy to have teams from around the world. With Matibabu we welcome a startup from Uganda. The company, led by Josiah Kavuma and Shafik Sekitto, provides an app that is able to diagnose malaria without a blood sample. The program instead uses a mobile phone’s camera. It can tell if a person has malaria by measuring light absorption when pressed to the fingertip. The start-up-company is based in Kampala, Uganda and was happy to accept the 10.000 km trip to Darmstadt to grow their idea together with the Merck Innovation Center team and the other startups.

With a little shorter trip, but as ambitious as Matibabu, the team of PEAT from Hanover has arrived at the Merck Innovation Center. The company, led by Simone Strey and Alexander Kenneopohl from Hannover, Germany, is a software start-up company employing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to detect plant diseases via image recognition. The system is not only able to diagnose plants from their pictures, it is also designed to learn from new submissions for more precise recognition as it develops.

Check out the teams and share your thoughts in the comments section below!

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