Kogniz is a Berkeley, CA and Montreal, Canada-based provider of an AI-driven computer vision SaaS platform for improving safety and operations, led by CEO Daniel Putterman. Its product suite focuses on gun detection, safety, and anomaly detection and integrates with clients' existing camera infrastructure. Kogniz Gun Detection identifies firearms in real time using multi-pass AI backed by human verifiers to minimize false alarms and delivers real-time alerts via phone, SMS, Slack, and email. The platform includes prebuilt automated workflows, two-way communications, emergency response plans, visual simulations, and dynamic reports to support incident, evacuation, and incident management. The company says the platform is used by more than 50 enterprise clients, can be implemented in days, and integrates with a customer’s existing infrastructure. Kogniz raised funding to bring its technology product suite to commercial, industrial, school, and governmental organizations. Kogniz provides a suite of products that use computer vision and artificial intelligence to enhance security, safety and efficiency in physical environments. Its cameras process video in real time to recognize people, objects and activities using next‑generation facial and object recognition technologies. The company reports cameras are live in twenty implementations across the United States. Led by Daniel Putterman, Kogniz operates from San Francisco and maintains development offices in Montreal, Quebec. The $4M seed funding will be used to expand the engineering and data science team and to grow product distribution. The company focuses on scaling deployments and improving its AI-driven security product suite.

Total raised

$14M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Jun 2022