Rapid product innovation in the time of COVID 19
Ad COVID19 first appeared, and the talk of lockdowns began, we gathered innovators, entrepreneurs designers, developers and medical professionals in our collective networks to create something to ease our own concerns, and the concerns of the people around us.
CoronaFighter was born out of a network of highly capable entrepreneurs and doctors who came together to make a difference and respond to a global crisis, evolving rapidly to become the leading enterprise provider for COVID 19 screening-based access control.
The Solution
Track Your Symptoms Daily
Check-in daily, track your symptoms over time and get recommendations based on the NICD COVID-19 guidelines.
Live Statistics & Research Dashboard
Up-to-date aggregated data from official South African sources and evidence-based COVID-19 research.
Latest Guidelines,News & Resources
Easy access to official guidelines, best practices and evidence backed resources on COVID-19.
The Results
With v1 launched just 7 days from conception, CoronaFighter took off quickly with thousands of daily active users, and a frenzy of media coverage, garnering millions of rand in social, print, radio and TV coverage. This laid the foundation for an exciting and purpose driven startup, serving some of the regions biggest companies.
Lean product development and innovation
Engaging key members of the Sigma Digital team to design and build the CoronaFighter tools with key inputs from a diverse group of doctors, business owners, innovators, designers and experts. We took the lead and launched our first version in weeks.
Seed Funding
Visitor and access management startup LetMeIn.to, creators of the CoronaFighter Enterprise Solution, announced October 15th 2020, that it has raised seed round funding totaling R2.2m from a South African impact investor.
From Innovation to Startup
On the back of the success of the CoronaFighter initiative, LetMeIn.to shifted gears to provide a simple and unified set of software applications delivered as a hosted service for enterprise clients to streamline visitor and access management while allowing for risk mitigation through screening and verification.
The company was founded in March 2020 by brothers Daniel and Devon Solomon, engineer & entrepreneur Paul Van Zyl, and doctors Jarrad Van Zuydam and Rick Diesel. The group came together after Diesel and Solomon graduated from GIBS Business School together. The team has extensive experience in the software industry and started CoronaFighter to help African enterprises safely return to work while remaining effortlessly compliant. In doing so, the team aims to help kickstart global economies.
With CoronaFighter, LetMeIn has created the industry’s first totally integrated suite of compliance-based access management applications including a chat-bot COVID screening tool, a QR scanning access management app, a case management and reporting system, and a full contact and area tracing solution. These applications give enterprises a simple, secure, and paperless way to manage their COVID compliance.