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Equator Therapeutics

We are developing a drug to increase metabolism and burn calories without exercise. Obesity and type 2 diabetes have reached epidemic proportions. There are 2.2B overweight people and 500M people with type 2 diabetes worldwide, and these numbers increase drastically every year. Existing drugs are not effective enough to reverse the trend. Our drug can solve this problem, because it addresses the root cause of metabolic disorders – the imbalance between caloric intake and expenditure. Our drug wi

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We are developing a drug to increase metabolism and burn calories without exercise. Obesity and type 2 diabetes have reached epidemic proportions. There are 2.2B overweight people and 500M people with type 2 diabetes worldwide, and these numbers increase drastically every year. Existing drugs are not effective enough to reverse the trend. Our drug can solve this problem, because it addresses the root cause of metabolic disorders – the imbalance between caloric intake and expenditure. Our drug wi

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shared product terms: diabete, people, root, cause; same category: Healthcare; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 41

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shared product terms: people, these, year, solve; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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shared product terms: there, people, these, number; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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shared product terms: diabete, worldwide, number, cause; same category: Healthcare; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Relish Life

match 35

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shared product terms: obesity, people, root, cause; same category: Healthcare

Tornyol

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Tornyol builds micro-drones that kill mosquitoes. We use smartphone microphones, car park assist sensors and some clever DSP and control to transform 40-gram toy drones into mosquito killers. Because these drones are so cheap and fast, we will lower the cost of mosquito control by 100x which will enable the eradication of mosquitoes from cities, saving more than a million people each year from Malaria, West Nile, Dengue, etc.

shared product terms: because, these, people, year; shared affiliation: Y Combinator