# Ben Rudolph

> Ben Rudolph is the co-founder of Peregrine Technologies, a San Francisco-based public safety data platform that raised $190M at a $2.5B valuation in 2025. A Stanford Computer Science graduate and former NCAA gymnastics All-American, Rudolph pivoted from Silicon Valley offers to spend two years building humanitarian tech for UNHCR's refugee camps before co-founding Peregrine with his college gymnastics teammate Nick Noone. Today, Peregrine's platform serves law enforcement agencies covering more than 80 million Americans, unifying fragmented data from body cameras, dispatch records, and crime databases into a single real-time intelligence system.

- **Role:** Co-Founder at Peregrine Technologies
- **Organizations:** Peregrine Technologies, UNHCR, Dimagi Inc., Cisco Systems, SurveyMonkey, Ooyala
- **From:** Naperville, Illinois, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** High School Diploma, Waubonsie Valley High School, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Peregrine Technologies, now valued at $2.5 billion after $190M Series C led by Sequoia Capital, Built RescueSMS, an SMS platform helping refugee intake officers in UNHCR camps across East Africa and Ecuador, NCAA All-American on rings (gymnastics) at Stanford University in 2009

## Career timeline

- **2009** — Enrolled at Stanford University on gymnastics scholarship; All-American on rings; competed in 2009 Maccabia Games in Israel
- **2010** — Software engineering intern at Cisco Systems
- **2011** — Software engineering intern at SurveyMonkey
- **2012** — Software engineering intern at Ooyala
- **2013** — Graduated Stanford with BS in Computer Science; declined Silicon Valley job offers to intern at UNHCR Innovation Lab in Geneva; developed RescueSMS for refugee camps
- **2013-2015** — Technology Consultant and Software Engineer at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency; conducted fieldwork across Ethiopia, Rwanda, Ecuador, and Thailand
- **2015** — Joined Dimagi Inc. as Senior Software Engineer II, building open-source global health software
- **2018** — Co-founded Peregrine Technologies with college gymnastics teammate Nick Noone; spent 18 months embedded with San Pablo Police Department to design the platform
- **2024** — Peregrine raised $30M Series B led by Friends & Family Capital; platform at 57 active agency contracts
- **2025** — Peregrine raised $190M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at $2.5B valuation; platform serves agencies covering 80M+ Americans; Super Bowl LIX security deployment

## Achievements

- Co-founded Peregrine Technologies, now valued at $2.5 billion after $190M Series C led by Sequoia Capital
- Built RescueSMS, an SMS platform helping refugee intake officers in UNHCR camps across East Africa and Ecuador
- NCAA All-American on rings (gymnastics) at Stanford University in 2009
- Part of Stanford Men's Gymnastics team that won NCAA championships
- Helped Peregrine scale to serve agencies covering more than 80 million Americans
- Led engineering for Peregrine's Super Bowl LIX security deployment in New Orleans
- Competed at the 2009 Maccabia Games in Israel as a gymnast
- Contributor to Arctic Code Vault on GitHub
- Multiple Pull Shark and Pair Extraordinaire achievements on GitHub

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Peregrine raised $190M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $2.5 billion valuation, the largest funding round in company history.
- **2025-02** — Peregrine deployed its platform for Super Bowl LIX security coordination in New Orleans, integrating data across federal, state, and local agencies.
- **2025-03** — Peregrine announced expansion into Canadian market and plans to double headcount to 350+ by end of 2025.
- **2025-08** — Peregrine platform now serves law enforcement agencies covering more than 80 million Americans.

## Links

- Website: https://www.benrudolph.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brudolph/
- GitHub: https://github.com/benrudolph
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNdTD9X5S3s

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Last updated: 2026-05-27