Stockholm-based Buddywise, a platform that goals to remodel office security with AI, introduced that it has secured €3.5M in a seed spherical of funding.
The funding was co-led by Kvanted, an industrial tech fund from Helsinki, and J12, an AI specialist fund.
Present buyers Aligned and Antler additionally participated, together with angel buyers like Hans Stråberg (Chair at Atlas Copco and SKF), Hans-Olov Blom (founding father of Ramudden World) and Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss (founding father of Soundcloud).
Maria Wasastjerna, Founding Companion at Kvanted, says, “Office security is essential within the industrial sector, and thus far, it’s an space nonetheless lagging relating to digital transformation. Buddywise is a pioneer in altering this and that’s the very cause we selected to assist them.”
“Buddywise’s distinctive resolution, constructed on pc imaginative and prescient fashions, identifies and reviews dangers, and might stop deadly accidents on the manufacturing unit flooring. The know-how brings security within the industrial sector into the digital age.”
“We’re tremendous excited to affix Lamin, Yigit, and the group of their journey in direction of a zero-injury imaginative and prescient.”
Creating safer workplaces
Based in 2020 by Lamin Faye and Yigit Arin, Buddywise goals to guide the cost in reworking office security. Leveraging AI and pc imaginative and prescient, the platform allows real-time danger detection and prevention of fatalities.
With steady information assortment, it furnishes security leaders with insights for proactive mitigation of accidents and guaranteeing frontline groups at industrial websites are effectively protected.
Industrial shoppers can combine their digicam techniques with the platform, enabling proactive hazard mitigation.
Emmet King, Companion at J12, says, “Current developments associated to pc imaginative and prescient fashions have seen nice enhancements in picture classification and object detection, whereas additionally enabling environment friendly studying from restricted info and extra dependable efficiency throughout numerous real-world situations.”
“This has positioned the know-how to be the first software in combating the intense difficulty of office security and to interchange the established order of reporting apps, inspections, and sensors.”
“Buddywise has constructed a number one resolution and we’ve been totally impressed by the way in which Lamin, Yigit, and the remainder of the group are working in direction of a zero harm imaginative and prescient.”
Capital utilisation
Buddywise plans to utilise the brand new funds to reinforce recruitment efforts for high industrial and tech expertise, increase its worldwide buyer base within the industrial sector, and kickstart industrial enlargement throughout Europe.
At present operational in Sweden, Finland, Latvia, and Poland, Buddywise’s resolution is already deployed throughout varied industries together with infrastructure, manufacturing, and pulp and paper.
Lamin Faye, Buddywise co-founder, says, “Everyone ought to be capable to return residence unhurt after a day’s work, so we will’t settle for the established order. Each accident might be prevented and with Buddywise Operational and Security leaders can lastly get the real-time information they want to take action.”
“The brand new funding signifies that we will deliver extra clients in direction of their zero harm imaginative and prescient and we’ll make investments closely into our skill to allow studying and motion primarily based on our data-driven insights.”
