Welcome to the thirty-first edition of our newsletter, as we talk strategy, engage globally and hit over 100,000 activities logged via AirTrack! This newsletter is aimed at investors, collaborators, future hires and early adopters of our products. And we now have over 700 subscribers!

We have seen some unusual poor air quality across Europe this week and on a few occasions through the winter. The pollution has travelled hundreds - even thousands - of miles from Eastern Europe, carried by prevailing easterly winds. Additional air masses have arrived from Southern Europe and Northern Africa, showing just how interconnected our atmosphere is. These wind patterns bring elevated levels of tiny particles that can penetrate deep into your lungs and bloodstream, increasing the risk of asthma attacks, heart disease, and other respiratory issues. Knowing the air pollution predictions, like you might look at weather forecasts, helps you to protect your health. Please join us on our mission - Personalising Air Quality, for everyone.

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Hot off the press

• this week we spent an afternoon with our advisers and investors at Sustainable Ventures looking at our strategy now we have closed our fundraising. We looked at product strategy for AirTrack and priorities for our work with other companies. Thank you to all our advisers and investors who offer us so much support!
• we are grateful to people out there (some as far away as Australia!) who are highlighting our work. DLake wrote a whole article on our product and prepared a video on how it helps his fitness. And Our Planet Needs You highlighted our support to their work with schools on active travel.
• on Wednesday evening we pitched to US-based VCs and corporates via the Plug and Play Tech Center event with university-affiliated start ups. We are also grateful to Imperial College London for selecting us to go on a venture trek to Bengaluru, India in May!

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Go with us towards clean air

• we are getting deep into planning for our AirTrack mobile app public launch, planned for mid April. If you can help us amplify, please get in touch, and thanks to everyone who has offered so far!
• we need are still looking for people who have never used AirTrack before to test our onboarding flow. If you are willing to do this in the next few weeks, please get in touch - hello@airawarelabs.com
• we continue to be amazed by all the support we get from far and wide. Big shout outs to Richard Coates Ksenia Fortin-Brazeau Dan Harris Helen Stewart David Janner-Klausner (he/him) Tom Maverley Sam Kinsey-Briggs MBE MA Dale Shephard Tom Bright Siddharth Goel Andrew Isabirye Adam Taylor Barney Weston Cherry Swayne Ruaraidh Dobson Christa Hasenkopf Katherine Prescott Kris Jones (He/Him) Hatim Siyawala Nina Davies Abdeali Siyawala Maureen Blandford Amy Wilson Dr. Kayla Schulte Nina van Schaick Hetan Shah Roddy Weller Holly Woodford Kester Ratcliff Freddie Talberg Andrew Lee Miller Moses Mihan Clare Scully, PhD Abigail Whitehouse David Peto James Wright. We hope you'll all continue with us towards clean air.

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Meet the team

This week, we are meeting Alan Debonneville and Fred Joye from Arcanys Ventures, who were one of our early investors and recently followed on. Arcanys is a firm that helps startups scale their tech teams efficiently. With years of experience working with early-stage companies, Alan and Fred focus on providing founders with the technical expertise and execution support they need to grow.

Fred on why Air Aware Labs stood out: “We look for startups tackling real issues with a smart approach and a team that can execute. Air Aware Labs checked all the boxes. Air pollution isn’t just an abstract environmental concern—it’s a direct health risk that most people don’t even realize they’re exposed to daily. What stood out to us was how AirAware turns something invisible into actionable data, helping individuals make better decisions. On top of that, we were impressed by the team—both founders and their head of engineering are highly capable, bringing the right mix of expertise and drive to make this a success. That mix of deep expertise and fast execution made it an easy yes for us.”

We’re excited to have Alan, Fred, and the Arcanys Ventures team on board as we work to make air quality insights more accessible to everyone.

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Ecosystem news

We get huge support from our network of start-up friends. So we are trialling a new section where we highlight work of companies in our network.

Our friends at Tokens of Appreciation🟡 (TOAP) is curating events for March, turning March into an Appreciation Month. You can join them in IRL in Hackney Wick or London Fields and peer into their universe and the Appreciation Economy with the below events.

• Plexal Futures Club with Plexal with a focus on future proofed organisations
• Appreciation Thursdays with Oneder for wonderful work, 🫶 where we screen, disco(urse), walk and cowork with friends focusing on TOAP universe: Regen, better work, communities, ownership and appreciation economies.

See 🟡Gaia "🇬" Soykok✨️'s full post here.

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Get in touch

Please follow Air Aware Labs to stay in touch with our progress. If anything in this newsletter has piqued your interest, please send me (Louise Thomas) or William Hicks a message! You can also email us at hello@airawarelabs.com

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