Firefly raises $20M Series A for its Ember AI physical-safety platform
Firefly Technology Inc. emerged from stealth with a $20 million Series A round to extend AI into the physical world, starting with workplace and campus safety. The round was led by Definition Capital, with BoxGroup making its third investment in Firefly and Susa Ventures, which led the seed round earlier this year, also participating, according to SiliconANGLE AI and Axios Pro reporting. Firefly's Ember Safety Management platform is designed to plug into existing cameras, radios and sensors, extract intelligence from them and coordinate a response, alongside purpose-built hardware such as wearable panic buttons, AI beacons that detect gunshots and a network gateway. The company says the platform is deployed across three campuses at Colorado's Front Range Community College, and it now aims at schools, hospitals and enterprise campuses.
The funding shows investors backing AI that connects fragmented legacy safety hardware rather than replacing it, though a Constellation Research analyst cited by SiliconANGLE AI cautioned that Firefly's systems still need to be verified to work as intended.
The digital world has already become much smarter thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence, and now a startup called Firefly Technology Inc. wants to do the same for the physical world, beginning with workplace safety.
It has just raised $20 million in funding via a Series A round to make that happen. Today’s round was led by Definition Capital, which previously funded Ramp Business Corp. and Cognition Inc., developer of the AI coding assistant Devin. It was joined by BoxGroup, making its third investment in Firefly, and Susa Ventures, which led the startup’s seed round earlier this year.
Firefly’s goal is to make the world a safer place, and it believes it can do that by extending AI into the physical world to make safety systems more intelligent. Though devices such as security cameras, radios and sensors have helped make locations such as schools, hospitals and other venues safer than they used to be, there’s still a lot of disconnect between these systems. Cameras can see what’s happening, radios can facilitate communication between security personnel and sensors can trigger alarms, but these devices all work in isolation.
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