Look at an air quality map of Europe on a cold November day and it’s quite possible that you’ll see a flurry of red dots — the sign of dangerously high pollution levels — around the city of Kraków in southern Poland. A few years ago, a village from the area recorded air quality worse than Beijing.
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November 10, 2022
Polish air quality platform Airly raises $5.5m Series A
The startup provides local authorities and companies with a tool to monitor and analyse air quality data
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