NEW update: Tomorrow (5/5), a webinar will take place to answer questions about the "Data Intelligence for Public Management" challenge, and on 6/5, for the "Preservation of professionals in a hospital environment" challenge.
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Nexa is seeking innovative solutions and technologies capable of preserving the health of health professionals, aiming to guarantee the availability of care for patients.
Examples of desirable solutions are:
i) new materials and equipment such as, for example, PPE and EPCs;
ii) good hospital practices management for work in situations of risk exposure;
iii) allocation management of financial and technical resources in the context of a pandemic
iv) supporting the psychological resilience of health professionals.
3 startups will be selected to receive $50k equity-free investment each.
Next steps:
We suggest you apply both above and to us, so we can help ping to see where your application lands.
Nexa Resources, headquartered in Brazil, is a $3B global mining player for zinc, copper, lead and other essential elements. They have been in touch with 1-2 MIT startups and have a platform to receive applications from startups that can potentially help Nexa to solve their main challenges. They have a venture arm / could invest.
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