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Zzapp Malaria

AI-based Malaria Control System
Startup Pre-Funding Founded 2016 Health Tech & Life Sciences
Last Update Mar 14, 2024 · Claimed
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Zzapp Malaria Overview

Zzapp Malaria aims to eradicate malaria - a disease affecting the health and livelihood of hundreds of millions of people. To that end, it developed an AI-based platform that significantly increases effectiveness of large-scale anti-malaria operations while drastically cutting their costs. Zzapp's platform consists of (1) a command center that automatically plans operations based on integration of satellite imagery, topography, weather data and other relevant information; and (2) a mobile app that helps track execution and collects ground-level data. In two large controlled trials, in Ghana and São Tomé, the platform has been demonstrated to significantly improve cost-effectiveness in both urban and rural settings, as it reduced mosquito population and malaria cases for a cost competitive with existing methods. Zzapp is the grand-prize winner ($3M) of the IBM Watson XPRIZE AI for Good competition and the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021. In addition, the company is collaborating with the Gates Foundation and institutes in six African countries. Zzapp Malaria is a spinoff of Sight Diagnostics, which has developed machine vision technology for blood diagnostics.

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Jun 5, 2023 · www.bloomberg.com
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An App Aims to Stop Malaria-Carrying Mosquitoes From Reproducing
Zzapp Malaria, an Israeli startup, has developed an app that uses satellite imagery to identify and predict where water bodies, in which malaria-carrying mosquitoes reproduce, will form. The app then helps field workers find these water sources so they can be treated with a biological control that targets the larvae of mosquitoes. This approach is aimed at stopping the mosquitoes from reproducing and thus preventing the spread of malaria. The company is currently operating in Africa, where 95% of the 247 million global malaria cases were reported in 2021.
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Dec 8, 2021 · www.i24news.tv
Israeli startup Zzapp Malaria aims to eradicate malaria in Africa - I24NEWS
Feb 16, 2021 · www.calcalistech.com
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Israeli startup selected as finalist in IBM Watson XPRIZE for malaria-combating app
Israeli startup ZzappMalaria has been selected as a finalist for the IBM Watson XPrize AI for Good challenge for its malaria-combating software and app. The company received a monetary award of $500,000 and plans to use the funds to extend its operations to other countries suffering from malaria. ZzappMalarias solution involves using artificial intelligence and machine learning to locate malaria outbreaks, identify elimination strategies, and optimize them. The company has collaborated with IBM to develop a system that predicts the effect of weather on mosquito populations. ZzappMalaria has conducted successful anti-malaria operations in several African countries, including Ghana, Zanzibar, Kenya, and Ethiopia. The World Health Organization reports that nearly half of the worlds population lives in high-risk malaria areas. ZzappMalarias app is GPS-based and works offline, making it suitable for use in rural areas without internet connectivity.
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Israeli AI Company Fights Malaria With Machine Learning
Zzapp Malaria, an Israel-based company, is using AI and machine learning to eradicate malaria. The company has been named one of the top 10 teams in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition. Zzapp Malaria analyzes satellite data and online databases to optimize localized responses for spraying pesticides. The company has developed a mobile app and planning tool to aid workers in finding water bodies and making informed decisions. Zzapp Malaria plans to launch its first version in three months and sees its system as the Waze of malaria elimination. The company is collaborating with countries fighting malaria and conducting its own operations to collect more data. Zzapp Malaria is proud to be recognized for its impact and is looking forward to guidance from XPRIZE in the future.
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SectorHealth Tech & Life Sciences

Funding

Total funding$3.49M
Last funding$3M
StagePre-Funding
Rounds4
Investors0

Team Members

2

Employees: 1-10

Web & Social Links

Websitewww.zzappmalaria.com/
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Locations

Menachem Begin Road 23, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

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