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How Paladin’s drones helped Asheville during Hurricane Helene
- When Hurricane Helene hit Asheville, North Carolina in September, the city’s police department reached out to public safety drone startup Paladin for help.
- Paladin was launched as first responder technology meant to help to reduce the time between a 911 call and help being on the way.
- Paladin’s software is designed to work with any drone, and to be easy to use.
- The motive behind Paladin is a personal one.
- Paladin recently raised a $5.2 million seed round led by Gradient, Google’s early-stage AI fund, with participation from Khosla Ventures, 1517, and Toyota Ventures, among others.
- In addition to the funding, the company also announced a host of new capabilities for its drone software.
- He added that clearing unnecessary calls makes a huge difference because many police departments are short on officers and resources.
- Using technology to make public safety work better is an area seeing more interest from entrepreneurs as of late.
- Shrivastava said that demand is there from public safety departments and that the startup is now getting multiple inbound requests for the tech a week.
- “We are still early in terms of the entire market,” Shrivastava said. “We are in dozens of cities right now and have scaled pretty quickly, but that is less than 0.1% of the market.”
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