Alex Templeton is the founder and CEO of Qured, a firm providing remote health screening to employers.
Staff use a painless at-home blood testing device, which has microneedles thinner than an eyelash, to assess everything from fertility and vitamin levels to diabetes risk and organ function.
Qured launched in 2017. The service is positioned as an employee benefit and also provides companies with anonymised insights into team wellbeing.
The London-headquartered company offered lateral flow tests for travel during the Covid pandemic and has worked with the likes of TfL, Goldman Sachs, American Express and British Airways.
In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Templeton explains how Qured pivoted during the pandemic, why it’s not enough to just hire diverse talent and explores why AI will be a “double-edged sword”....