"When talking with entrepreneurs Mariana Matus and Newsha Ghaeli about poop, things can veer into the philosophical.“The behavior of a city is imprinted in its sewage,” Ghaeli says. “It’s like the fingerprints of our health.”Their company, Biobot Analytics, has met the pandemic moment. What started as a research idea at MIT, focusing on how waste water data can help mitigate the spread of disease, has turned into something bigger. Now, it’s a fast-growing startup — with over 65 employees and millions in funding — that has contracted with over 700 towns, across every state in the country, to study their sewage and help policy makers predict how bad the coronavirus could get in their communities."
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| Mariana Matus, cofounder and CEO of Biobot Analytics.ERIN CLARK/GLOBE STAFF |
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