6 AI Startups Doing Physical Security
Summary
In 2014, machines surpassed the identification accuracy rate of the human eye, according to a co-founder of Sensetime, one of the top AI startups in China that develops facial recognition technology used in those closed-circuit TV (CCTV) camera systems. We tasked our most paranoid MBA, locked safely in his hotel room after a recent visit to the cannabis clubs in Europe, to track down some of the most interesting startups doing AI physical security. Another Series A startup to make it on the CB Insights AI 100 list, Deep Sentinel out of San Francisco raised $7.4 million last year from Shasta Ventures, Lux Capital and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Founded by serial entrepreneur David Selinger, who did a stint with Amazon back in the day, Deep Sentinel is developing a home camera security system that detects crime before it happens. And we haven’t even re-visited the issue of robotic security guard startups like Knightscope, which despite a recent PR success involving terrorizing homeless people in San Francisco, raised $25 million this month.
