Peregrine, a public safety technology company that touts itself as a “data integration platform,” has raised $30 million in funding to help it hire more engineers and other professionals as the company expands its technology market.
Friends & Family Capital and Fifth Down Capital led the Series B funding round, with participation from existing investors Goldcrest Capital, Craft Ventures, Godfrey Capital and others. According to Crunchbase, the company's total funding has now reached $60 million.
More than 40 state, regional, and local agencies use Peregrine software to provide data analytics, integrated emergency management, first responder alerts, and real-time dashboards.
For example, the company can capture information such as vehicle location, evacuation status, flood gauge data, and forecasts for a unified view of the emergency situation. Peregrine's technology can also analyze crime trends on a block-by-block basis and monitor the health of police officers.
Founded in 2018, Peregrine plans to hire engineers, sales representatives, and deployment and training experts with the new capital, said Rob Wheeler, the company's director of growth, operations and customer advocacy. . government technology on mail.
A year ago, the company had customers in “a handful of states,” Wheeler said, but now sells to distributors in 10 states covering more than 25 million people.
“We expect to maintain or increase our overall growth trajectory as state, local, and local agencies across the country solve their toughest problems through better data-driven decision-making.” “It means making sure we have a team to help build solutions that can.” .
San Francisco-based Peregrine also expects to expand its product range in response to market demand expected to impact the larger public safety technology sector.
“We are seeing a natural flow from the law enforcement market into additional public safety end markets,” Wheeler said. “We see a lot of demand and currently support customers in the emergency management, criminal justice and fire rescue sectors and are actively pursuing these markets at the local, county and state level. ”
He said the company automates countywide reporting and has received “interest” from “agencies you wouldn't necessarily expect, like parks and recreation departments and public libraries.”
Wheeler pointed to the city of Atlanta as an example of where this type of technology is heading. Use Peregrine to analyze crime data along with other sources such as code violations, grocery store access, school turnover, and business density.
Integrating and analyzing such data will lead to what he calls a “neighborhood scorecard,” he said, which will help city officials plan service deployments and interventions.
