Buzz Solutions, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of an AI and Machine Vision technology platform, raised $1.2m in seed funding.
The round was led by Blackhorn Ventures with participation from a syndicate comprising Ulu Ventures, Vodia Ventures, and Advisors.fund.
Led by Kaitlyn Albertoli, Co-founder and CEO, and Led by Vikhyat Chaudhry, Co-founder and CTO, COO, Buzz Solutions provides an AI and Machine Vision technology platform that quickly analyzes millions of images of power lines to detect dangerous flaws in the infrastructure, helping utilities to identify problem areas and repair them before a fire starts. The analytics, insights, and asset-tracking platform reviews the grid inspection images captured by these varied sources which are stored in the cloud. The solution runs the images through its proprietary algorithms to detect faults on all the major components of transmission and distribution lines. It also searches for areas where vegetation may be encroaching on the equipment and posing a fire risk.
The company’s technology is already being used in pilot projects at a large southern California utility, a large Midwest utility, and two large New York utilities.
Buzz Solutions is a StartX accelerator startup.
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24/07/2020