BlueDot Inc. is a Canadian

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. The company's flagship product is Insights, a software-as-service used to map the spread of infectious diseases.

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BlueDot was founded in 2013. According to the company's founder, BlueDot's initial business concept was inspired by the effects of the

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. The company secured $9.4 million in

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funding in 2019, with its primary investors being Horizon Ventures,

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, and BDC Capital's Women in Technology Venture Fund. BlueDot and its software received significant coverage during the

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. BlueDot software is being used to track outbreaks of COVID-19. While the

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publicly warned of “pneumonia with an unknown cause” in China for the first time on January 5, BlueDot warned users six days earlier about the impending danger.

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