Vectech wins Unite for Sight Global Health Innovation Competition

April 18, 2019, Baltimore, MD

Vectech, a startup developing innovative insect detection and monitoring technologies, announced today it had won the $10,000 Unite for Sight Global Health & Innovation Conference Pitch Competition. Vectech was one of several teams who competed during the pitch competition at Unite for Sight's annual meeting. Adam Goodwin, Vectech's Chief Technology Officer, accepted the $10,000 award. 

Vectech is developing applied optics and computer vision approaches that are able to identify vector species. Vectech's technology can be implemented in a variety of tools, from public health operations, to citizen science, and entomolgical research. 

About the Global Health & Innovation Conference: 

The Global Health and Innovation Conference is hosted by Unite for Sight. It is the world's leading and largest global health conference and the largest social entrepreneurship conference. Learn more here.

About Vectech: 

Vectech, LLC is a Baltimore-MD based technology company that specializes in optics and computer vision approaches to detecting and monitoring insects. The company aims to generate data that will promote effective allocation of control resources and prevent vector borne diseases. Learn more: https://www.vectech.io/

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Tristan Ford
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