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Shawn Guan
Shawn Guan is the CEO and co-founder of Umbo Computer Vision, an AI company building autonomous video security systems that watch camera feeds and flag real threats instead of stray animals and swaying trees. After roughly 2,000 client meetings in the traditional surveillance business taught him how badly false alarms wear people down, he co-founded Umbo in 2014 with Ping-Lin Chang and Tingfan Wu to put deep learning behind the lens. The company raised about $17.6 million, won a Best Startup nod at NVIDIA's 2016 deep learning conference and SIA's Best in Video Analytics in 2017, and ran offices in San Francisco, Taipei and London.
Deep Sentinel
Deep Sentinel is a Pleasanton, California security company that pairs proprietary AI with live human guards to stop crime while it is happening rather than document it after the fact. Its cameras use computer vision to filter out harmless motion and surface genuine threats to remote 'LiveSentinel' guards, who intervene through two-way audio and a 100+ dB siren within seconds and escalate to police with verified, crime-in-progress information. The company sells to both homeowners and businesses and has expanded into a Bring Your Own Camera program that works with major third-party camera brands.
Hakimo
Hakimo is a San Francisco-based AI security company founded by Stanford researchers Sam Joseph and Sagar Honnungar. The company builds autonomous AI agents that monitor physical security infrastructure - cameras, badge readers, access control systems - in real time, detecting threats and responding with automated talk-downs before incidents escalate. Serving over 400 properties across construction, automotive, self-storage, corporate offices, and higher education, Hakimo has raised $20.5 million in total funding and delivers a 60% reduction in security incidents for its customers.