{"id":129361,"date":"2021-10-21T22:26:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T05:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/deep-north-which-uses-ai-to-track-people-from-camera-footage-raises-16-7m"},"modified":"2021-10-21T22:26:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T05:26:33","slug":"deep-north-which-uses-ai-to-track-people-from-camera-footage-raises-16-7m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/deep-north-which-uses-ai-to-track-people-from-camera-footage-raises-16-7m","title":{"rendered":"Deep North, which uses AI to track people from camera footage, raises $16.7M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deep-north-which-uses-ai-to-track-people-from-camera-footage-raises-16-7m.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep North, a Foster City, California-based startup applying computer vision to security camera footage, today announced that it raised $16.7 million in a Series A-1 round. Led by Celesta Capital and Yobi Partners, with participation from Conviction Investment Partners, Deep North plans to use the funds to make hires and expand its services \u201cat scale,\u201d according to CEO Rohan Sanil.<\/p>\n<p>Deep North, previously known as Vmaxx, claims its platform can help brick-and-mortar retailers \u201cembrace digital\u201d and protect against COVID-19 by retrofitting security systems to track purchases and ensure compliance with masking rules. But the company\u2019s system, which relies on algorithms with potential flaws, raises concerns about both privacy and bias.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep North, a Foster City, California-based startup applying computer vision to security camera footage, today announced that it raised $16.7 million in a Series A-1 round. Led by Celesta Capital and Yobi Partners, with participation from Conviction Investment Partners, Deep North plans to use the funds to make hires and expand its services \u201cat scale,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}