About Us
Our Story
The Berlin founder came up with the idea of ​​an online test center that can be operated flexibly and easily from anywhere in Germany. Since there are already technical solutions for many areas of life, it was obvious for the team to bring the test center to people's homes. Covessa was founded in April 2021 . The 5- person team has been working on the technology since January 2021 and is in close contact with medical service providers, political actors, logistics providers and authorities in order to advance their ideas.
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Covessa App takes pride in providing flexible, certified, and secure solutions for Government approved rapid antigen testing in the comfort of your home. Our service is aimed at all users, regardless of the place of residence and nationality, and offers a new, low-contact, and decentralized rapid test for corona for individuals as well as for companies, schools, authorities, public institutions, and all those who are legally required to test for Corona -Solution. The Covessa App is multilingual and can currently be used in German and English.
Founder
Mark Turrell
is CEO / CTO, one of the founders of Covessa and a tech entrepreneur with a 25-year plan to change the world for the better. His PhD was on collective intelligence - how to use computer networks to scale human brain power, solve problems, and get things done. He founded his first software company, Imaginatik, at the age of 25 and listed it on the London Stock Exchange in 2006. He has a passion for implementing technical solutions that are relevant to both business and society. In 2008 he had the idea of ​​making camera phones to record election results in Zimbabwe - the first use of crowd-sourced election monitoring (and one of the inspirations for the Covessa project).
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Mark lives in Berlin and has previously lived in San Francisco, Boston, Paris, Amsterdam and Johannesburg. He was born in Canada, grew up in England and has roots in South Africa.
Our Partners
Covessa works with various medical service providers recognized for carrying out corona tests. The medical service providers are cooperation partners of the Covessa and are responsible for carrying out the medically certified SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid tests. The medical staff uses the Video Verify procedure of the Covessa App to check that the rapid tests have been carried out correctly, evaluate the result and certify the user: the test result is then given by means of a government-approved medical test certificate.