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Highlights


  • Best AI for security: human-like, protects tirelessly, learns continuously
  • Transforming Security Monitoring and Guard industry of $148B TAM
  • Prevents crime with 10X accuracy improvement while reducing costs 50%
  • Easy deployment through technology integrations and strategic partnerships
  • Customers in 37 countries: installed on 30K+ cameras, processed 200M images
  • Leadership team with engineering and business degrees from top universities
  • "Meet the Drapers" finalist, No.1 start-up at the Global AI Conference 2020

Problem


Security cameras, guards are not enough to prevent crime

Although it is useful for insurance claims or forensic investigation, having a security camera system barely helps to prevent crimes. 

98% false alarm rate costs $1.8B/year for police dispatch

Video surveillance still relies on costly on-going human monitoring to make it useful.

Lapses still occur even in 24/7 high-security monitoring

After 12 minutes of continuous video monitoring, an operator will miss up to 45% of screen activity, and up to 95% after 22 minutes of viewing. 

With no guidance, patrol guards follow routines predictable enough for criminals to easily outsmart them. Data from the FBI shows that in 84% of property crime cases, criminals fled from the scene and were never arrested.

Solution


AI-powered video analytics prevent crime

Sentry AI is a pioneer in AI Video Analytics for security & safety. 


We use the latest AI technology to detect people and vehicles, recognize faces and license plates, and identify unusual behavioral pattens such as loitering, violence, falling down, or not wearing masks as a COVID measure.

Sentry AI enhances security operator efficiency while reducing alerts by 95% and improving accuracy 10-fold.

Our cloud-based platform seamlessly integrates with most cameras, video management systems, alarm automation software, and other security platforms, and is easily deployable! 

Guards and agents trust the accurate real-time alerts from Sentry AI and immediately take action to PREVENT crime. 

Product


Actionable insights for security monitoring

Sentry AI products include Intrusion Detection, Proactive Monitoring, and Smart Safety with plug-and-play modules focusing on human activity and detecting unusual behaviors and security threats. 


Sentry AI works with existing security systems and does not require any additional hardware or software, creating a seamless onboarding process:


Our Smart Surveillance Platform sends text alerts to roaming guards, provides insights to monitoring agents, and Smart Analytics for supervisors. 

Traction


30K cameras connected and 200M images processed

1300+ paid users in 37 countries trust Sentry AI to keep their properties and community safe and secure.

Sentry AI has established partnerships with many leading security providers, resellers, and technology companies in order to acquire customers rapidly.


We are a member of The Monitoring Association, which represents 2,100 security monitoring centers. We've established strong partnerships with security integrators and resellers to generate a B2B sales pipeline with 75+ high value customer leads. 

Sentry AI is one of the finalists on "Meet the Drapers" and has won IIT Bay Area Alumni’s Most Popular Startup, TiE50 2019, TiE50 2020, and #1 startup at the Global AI Conference 2020.

Customers


95% false alarm reductions and 10X accuracy improvements mean peace of mind for users

Our customers span across verticals including business, residential, smart city, and university. Our users repeatedly report that Sentry AI works in situations where other security systems fail. 

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Business model


Subscription SaaS model for plug-and-play AI services

Sentry AI employs a subscription SaaS revenue model. Customers can customize their plan based on the number of cameras and AI features for each camera. Average cost per feature is $10/camera/month. 

Sentry AI also offers custom features and specialized deployment for enterprises depending on their security and privacy needs.

Market


Disrupting the security industry

Sentry AI’s innovative security platform provides a revolutionary solution to an age-old problem. We operate at the intersection of AI, security, and monitoring to provide the best solutions for our clients. 

At the center of three overlapping markets, Sentry AI targets to disrupt the monitoring agent, video analytics, and security guard market with a combined TAM of $148B+

Competition


Sentry AI is the leader in security video analytics

Bringing state-of-the-art AI technology to the game, Sentry AI is the first in the market to offer self-learning optimization. Our products outperformed competitors in multiple tech evaluations in terms of accuracy and responsiveness in suboptimal conditions. 


Our open platform works with most legacy camera systems and our self-learning AI is unparalleled in the industry

Vision and strategy


AI for safe and secure communities

With your support, Sentry AI will continue to enhance our proprietary Video Neural Network and AI technologies for security and safety. 

We will continue to develop more custom use cases such as tailgating, unusual gathering, weapon detection, and many others.

We will also continue to improve our Smart Surveillance Platform, enhancing user experience on desktop and mobile.


Funding


Sentry AI has previously raised $1.6M+ across a variety of funding initiatives

At Sentry AI, we are currently entering our 5th pre-seed round. We have previously raised $1.6M+ across a variety of funding initiatives.

 

We are backed by law enforcement officers, security veterans, seasoned entrepreneurs and technology executives. We received grants from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and SBA.

Founders


Entrepreneurs with experience

Uday Kiran Chaka 
CEO

Uday Kiran Chaka is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded and invested in 4 tech start-ups. He advised Fortune 100 companies as a strategy consultant at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC).

Uday graduated with distinction from an MBA program at Duke University and a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). He holds two patents (1 issued, 1 pending) in computer vision AI for security and safety.

Farhat Ali
COO

Farhat Ali was the President & CEO of $1B+ Fujitsu America, leading a 10,000 employee global organization. He is an angel investor and startup adviser.

Farhat graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a BSEE in computer science, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.


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Valuation cap

$12,000,000

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Discount

15%

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Minimum investment

$200

The smallest investment amount that Sentry AI is accepting.
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Funding goal

$1.07M

Sentry AI must achieve its minimum goal of $25K before the deadline. The maximum amount the offering can raise is $1.07M.
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Bonus perks

In addition to your Crowd SAFE, you'll receive perks for investing in Sentry AI.
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  • One month of Sentry Smart Alerts for home use up to 5 cameras. Connect using Blue Iris.
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  • Three months of Sentry Smart Alerts for home use up to 10 cameras. Connect using Blue Iris.
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$1,000
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  • One year of Sentry Smart Alerts for home use up to 10 cameras. Connect using Blue Iris.
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$10,000
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  • One year of Sentry AI - Person Intrusion Detection for business use up to 10 cameras.

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Experienced and intelligent co-founders. SaaS product with gigantic TAM. Immature industry with lots of opportunity for growth and consolidation. (+ their office is on the same street as the apartment I live in!)

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Evan Buhler
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over 4 years ago

I believe that AI will replace many tedious and repetitive tasks that are currently performed by humans. Security guards monitoring cameras today is equivalent to switchboard operators in the early days of telephony.

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David Levy
Value-add investor
over 4 years ago

I invested because Sentry AI is a groundbreaking product. Enabling security cameras to detect threats 100 percent of the time through AI avoids the downfalls of human monitoring.

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About Sentry AI

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Smart Home Sentry, Inc.
Founded
Jul 2017
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Uday Kiran Chaka
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Uday has co-founded 4 tech start-ups in Silicon Valley. Earlier in his career, Uday advised Fortune-100 companies as a strategy consultant at Pricewaterhouse Coopers. He has an MBA from Duke University and a B.Tech from IIT Delhi.
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Farhat Ali
COO
Farhat brings his 40+ years of leadership experience in the technology industry to lead Sentry operations. He was the President & CEO of Fujitsu America, DShofer. He has an MBA from Harvard and a BSEE in Computer Science from Princeton.
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Ari Shinozaki
Research Fellow
Ari researches the latest AI technologies. He was a Managing Partner at Accenture and Partner at PwC. Ari has an MBA from Cornell University, PhD in Physics from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and AB, Physics from Princeton
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Hien Nguyen
Marketing/Product UX
Hien leads Marketing and Product UX at Sentry AI. She obtained MBA in Management Science and Technology Management from Duke University and Bachelor of Economics from Foreign Trade University.
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Ramesh Sastry
Sales/Customer Success
Ramesh has more than 20 years experience leading technology product development at Cisco. He has an MS from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor's degree from IISc.
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Keshava Murali
Product Development
Keshava has more than 16 years experience as Engineer Lead. Keshava obtained his Master of Science in Engineering from San Jose State University and Bachelor of Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University.
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Ritesh Agarwal
AI Technologies
Ritesh leads AI product development at Sentry AI. He completed Masters from School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, and B.Tech IT from National Institute of Technology Karnataka
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Smita Sasindran
Product Integration
Smita has 11 years experience as Software Engineer and Data Engineer. She has Masters in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh, specializing in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
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Chip Garner
Technology Advisor
Chip has over 30 technical publications and is an expert in computer vision, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and IoT. Chip gained his MS in Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering from UCLA and BS in Mechanical Engineering from UCSD.
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Anand Jagannathan
Growth Advisor
As CEO of 5 Silicon Valley startups & 2 IPOs, Anand brings his 35+ years of entrepreneurship experience to Sentry advisor board. Anand has PhD and MS in Computer Science from Rice and BS from the IIT (Kanpur), where is a Distinguished Alumnus.
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Wahed Magee
Law Enforcement Advisor
Wahed is a “Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Practitioner,” certified by National Institute of Crime Prevention. Wahed gained his MA in Criminal Justice from Columbia Southern and BA in Criminal Justice & Sociology from WSU.
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Michael McLeod
Security Industry Advisor
Michael McLeod has 30+ years of experience in the security industry. He is CEO of GHS Interactive Security and served as General Manager for API Security, VP Operations for Sonitrol Corporation, and National VP of Ops for Security Technologies Group.
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Keshava Murali
Product Development
Ritesh Agarwal
AI Technologies
Smita Sasindran
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Chip Garner
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