Tagged: surveillance
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IntelliVision
IntelliVision is a San Jose-based developer of AI and deep-learning video and audio analytics software for smart cameras. Founded in 2002, its software runs on the edge, on-server and in the cloud to power face detection and recognition, license plate recognition, object detection and classification, intrusion detection, and driver-assistance (ADAS/DMS) systems. Sold primarily to camera makers (ODMs), chipset vendors, security integrators and OEMs, its analytics have shipped in millions of cameras across smart home, smart city, retail, banking/ATM, transportation and automotive markets. The company was acquired by Nortek Security & Control in 2018 and now operates as part of Nice.
Private Information (Detective Indonesia)
Private Information - operating as Detective Indonesia under PT. Periskop Integriti Indonesia - is a Jakarta-based private investigation and corporate intelligence firm that has been gathering field verified facts since 2002. It serves companies that cannot afford to make the wrong decision, offering background checks, brand protection and anti-counterfeit programs, surveillance, counter-surveillance, and mystery guest audits across Indonesia, backed by an international network and intelligence-grade confidentiality protocols.
Asylon Robotics
Asylon Robotics builds US-made robotic security systems that pair autonomous aerial drones with ground robots (its Spot-based DroneDog) and AI command software to automate perimeter patrols for corporate campuses, logistics hubs, and critical infrastructure. Sold as Robotic Security as a Service and backed by a 24/7 Robotic Security Operations Center, the platform has run more than 250,000 missions across deployments in 15 U.S. states for customers including Ford, Bayer, GXO, Kia, and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Rish Gupta
Rish Gupta is the Co-founder and CEO of Spot AI, a San Francisco-based video intelligence company turning passive security cameras into AI-powered teammates for the physical economy. A Stanford GSB alum originally from Delhi, Rish built his first company—LetsIntern.com—to 4 million users and sold it before moving to Silicon Valley. At Spot AI, he leads a team that processes more daily video than YouTube receives in uploads, serving 1,000+ customers across 17 industries with an AI platform that has driven 40% injury reductions in manufacturing and 8X ROI in auto services. The company has raised $93M from Redpoint, Bessemer, Scale Venture Partners, and Qualcomm Ventures.
Joe Weil
Joe Weil is the CEO of Unplugged, a privacy-first smartphone company that makes the UP Phone - an open-source Android device stripped of Google services, built with a hardware battery disconnect switch, on-device firewall, and a no-surveillance business model. Before leading Unplugged, Weil spent roughly a decade at Apple leading zero-to-one special projects for Apple Services, and before that built Psycho Films LLC, directing music videos for Kendrick Lamar, 21 Savage, A$AP Ferg, and Big Sean. He left Apple, by his account, after watching the company shift into political activism, soft censorship, and deep integration with China.
John Keh
John Keh is the Founder and CEO of Valtec, a San Diego-based maritime AI and drone company that deploys autonomous VTOL systems on commercial fishing vessels to detect tuna schools in real time. A UC Berkeley alumnus and former US Air Force geospatial intelligence analyst with 250+ missions across South Korea and the Middle East, Keh pivoted from food delivery (3rd employee at Caviar, Uber Eats courier intelligence lead) to maritime defense after four years building startups in Taiwan. Valtec raised a $2M pre-seed round in March 2025 backed by SparkLabs Taiwan, Wavemaker VC, DRONE FUND, Guitar Hero founder Kai Huang, and Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, with the company's Larus VTOL drone and Fulcan AI platform now deployed on 40+ fishing vessels across Taiwan and the Philippines.
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former constitutional lawyer who broke the world's most consequential surveillance story - Edward Snowden's NSA revelations - earning a Pulitzer Prize and an Oscar-winning documentary. After co-founding The Intercept and exposing judicial corruption in Brazil, he now runs 'System Update,' an independent nightly show on Rumble, where he delivers unfiltered political commentary captive to no institutional master. He lives in Rio de Janeiro with his two adopted sons and 20+ rescue dogs.
Zeynep Tufekci
Zeynep Tufekci is a Turkish-born sociologist, professor at Princeton University, and New York Times opinion columnist who has become one of the world's foremost voices on the intersection of technology and society. Known for being consistently ahead of the curve — predicting Facebook's role in ethnic violence, YouTube's radicalization pipeline, and COVID-19's severity before mainstream institutions caught on — she bridges computer science and humanistic inquiry with a rare clarity. Her 2017 book 'Twitter and Tear Gas' is a landmark study of networked protest, and her Substack newsletter 'Insight' offers rigorous, genuinely open-minded analysis of the hardest puzzles at the edge of science, technology, and democracy.