Kogniz, a Berkeley, CA- and Montreal, Canada-based provider of an AI-based computer vision platform, raised $10M in funding.
The round was led by Ulu Ventures and with participation from Venture Studio, Tom Chavez, The Indy Fund, K20 Fund, and H. Barton Asset Management.
The company intends to use the funds to bring its technology product suite for gun detection, safety, and anomaly detection to commercial, industrial, school, and governmental organizations.
Led by CEO Daniel Putterman, Kogniz leverages AI-driven computer vision to deliver a SaaS platform for improving safety and operations. Companies use it to address key challenges, including: loss prevention, defect detection, unusual activity, evacuation management, and incident management.
Kogniz Gun Detection uses computer vision and AI to identify firearms in real time using a client’s existing camera infrastructure, offering:
- No False Alarms using multi-pass AI and backed by a trained team of human verifiers
- Real-Time Alerts over phone, SMS, Slack, and email
- Prebuilt Automated Workflows to automate actions defined in the emergency response plan
- Dynamic Reports to easily access real-time, critical information
- Two-Way Communications to provide information to those in need of help and stakeholders like police and other first responders
- Emergency Response Plans to document and prepare for actions to be taken during the emergency response
- Visual Simulations to simulate and prepare for active shooter scenarios and validate emergency response plans
Used by more than 50 enterprise clients, the platform can be implemented in days and integrates with a company’s existing infrastructure.
FinSMEs
30/06/2022