Every month we analyze the most promising security startups in the field of computer vision, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
In the last month of the year we compiled a digest of 5 startups, recent investment deals and 7 articles that will give you some insights in the industry. Enjoy your reading!
Investments and deals:
1. EhEye secures $480K in equity, debt financing and grants (Private Capital Journal)
2. Verizon acquires Niddel to add security detection and response capabilities for business customers (NB Herard)
3. Threatcare Secures $1.4 Million in Seed Funding Led by Moonshots Capital to Scale Proactive Cyber Defense Platform (Daily Telescope)
4. Taiwan Startup Grabs $10M in Capital With A Fix For False Alarms (Forbes)
5. WhiteFox Defense Technologies, Inc. Closes $2,000,000 Seed Round Led by Serra Ventures’ May 2017 Investment (Benzinga)
Articles:
1. Dubai Police adopt strategic AI plan (Khaleej Times)
2. The Pentagon is using AI to fight ISIS but it’s not quite the ‘Terminator’ (CNN)
3. Dark Future: Here’s When We’ll Have the Autonomous Guard Dogs from Black Mirror (Futurism)
4. Executive Spotlight: Interview with Ray Spicer, Director of Defense and Intelligence for IBM U.S. Federal (Executive Biz)
5. US Seeks to Automate Video Analysis (HPC Wire)
6. 8 trends in video surveillance for 2018 (Ifsec Global)
7. US-based Cubic Corporation to serve defence, transport sectors (Telangana Today)
8. Pentagon Shuffles Cloud Steering Committee (Next Gov)
9. Segway-based security bot patrols looking for trouble (New Atlas)
10. Air Force ISR ‘Flight Plan,’ Industry Day Coming: Stealth, Space, Cyber, & AI (Breaking Defense)
11. Battlefield soldiers to get Alexa-style assistant to help reveal enemy’s location (Express)
12. Defence looks to AI for national security (IT News)
13. Comcast Adds AI Smarts to Home Security Cameras (Multichannel)
Startups:
1. GoodVision – GoodVision Video Insights is a software cloud service, which uses artificial intelligence to automatically detect and classify objects and video events from unstructured video data in a way a human would do it, for a fraction of the time that a human would need. It makes video recordings one of the most important assets of the Smart City. Its analyzes help better urban planning, traffic and location analysis. GoodVision provides security operators immediate retrieval of events they are looking for. From business security to law enforcement, it is beyond the human capacity to process all incoming streams accordingly.
2. Cartwatch – Cartwatch currently offer two products using state of the art deep learning techniques for loss prevention. Cartwatch Checkout – automatic classification and location detection of shopping carts at the checkout using a camera. This unburdens cashier personell and decreases theft for goods that are just being left in the cart.Cartwatch Entrance – supervision and surveillance for stores with open entrances. Retailers prefer an open entrance to their goods since this is known to positively influence sales. Individuals or gangs of thieves will use this paradigm to steal huge quantities of goods from stores, simply by leaving through the open entrance. Cartwatch Entrance automatically detects and classifies all carts in the entrance are and yields automatic alarms in various forms if such events occur.
3. DeepInsights – DeepInsights is founded to bring the next generation security analysis tool to customers, with security analysts’ needs carefully considered in our design, to help them better protect their computers. We present fewer and prioritized alerts to analysts in visualized patterns; We modularize many steps needed by security analysts so that they can focus on high level investigation/response plan without worrying about low level implementation; With machine learning, our system learns from security analysts and becomes smarter and smarter day by day; With big data technology, we collect and consolidate external threat intelligence all over the internet and deliver in real time to our customers.
4. Canary – Canary is a New York City-based technology startup with a mission to make people safer and more connected to their homes. Founded by experts with experience in security, robotics, software and design, Canary is focused on the development of its eponymous first product — an affordable, easy to set up and smart security solution available to everyone, whether they rent or own.
5. Uncanny Vision – Uncanny Vision is a technology company focused on Computer Vision on Embedded systems. The team has over 100+ years of combined experience in the AI, Computer Vision & IoT area. Uncanny Vision’s customers include leading Fortune 500 Companies in US, Japan, Germany & India.
We hope this digest of M&A deals, news stories and startups was useful for you. Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Author: AI For Security
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