More than 5,300 individuals and teams from all over the world signed up to tackle a Covid-19 related challenge. The Rebuild Global Innovation Sprint culminated with the teams listed below featured in a Virtual Showcase or on the Honorable Mention List.

These teams represent the extraordinary entrepreneurial spirit, talent, creativity, and breadth of impact that Rebuild participants brought to problem-solving and creating opportunities.

Compass was one of the few teams to make it to the Virtual Showcase!

Seven finalists have been selected to compete for $22,500 in awards in the Fall 2020 Skandalaris Venture Competition. In anticipation of the SVC finals, on December 8, 2020, we are publishing a Q&A series with the finalists. Today's featured team is Compass.

We learned that triaging - assessing the risk of having a disease based on specific questions - was a very efficient model for directing users to testing centers without overwhelming local healthcare systems. Therefore, we developed Compass, an NLP-driven, HIPAA-compliant, SMS-based COVID-19 triaging platform for lower-income populations. Users can simply text our system and answer a series of physician-curated questions (offered in 11 languages) to assess their potential COVID-19 risk. Via our proprietary algorithm, users are assigned to one of our stratified risk levels and subsequently directed to the nearest affordable testing clinic. All received patient data is anonymized and securely stored in our database to identify geographical, financial, symptomatological factors driving COVID-19 transmission in lower-income areas. Acknowledging that COVID-19 has a timeline, we are expanding our platform to triage cancer and cardiovascular disease as well. Thus, we are partnering with an existing international digital health company to integrate their proprietary cancer prognostic algorithm with our SMS platform to bring affordable and accessible cancer screening to the U.S. market.

And This is How it Started is a student-run podcast about student founders, innovators, entrepreneurs, trail-blazers, and how they started their initiatives. Hosts also have casual "let's talk" conversations about specific industry spaces and startups in that space.

How it Started: Compass with Tejas Sekhar & Jessika Baral - And This is How it Started | Podcast on Spotify

MIT IDEAS celebrates 20 years of social innovation at MIT | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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