Intenseye, the AI-powered employee health and safety (EHS) company, announced the close of a $4M Seed round co-led by Point Nine and Air Street Capital. Successful entrepreneurs joined the round as angel investors, including Zehan Wang (Magic Pony, acq. Twitter), Zane Lackey (Signal Sciences, acq. Fastly), and Cem Kent (Even Financial).
Led by co-founders Sercan Esen (CEO) and Serhat Cillidag (CTO), Intenseye’s software platform helps leading enterprises to drastically reduce the human and economic cost of workplace injuries. Today, every 7 seconds a worker is injured on the job, costing the industry $250 billion per year.
Intenseye also announced the rapid deployment of its software by large enterprises. Customers integrate Intenseye’s software into the real-time video streams generated by the existing cameras within facilities. Intenseye’s computer vision models have been trained on millions of hours of real-world video, enabling them to process live video streams in the cloud or on-premise to rapidly identify over 30 common unsafe act types while preserving the privacy of employees. EHS teams can further customise these detectors using a simple drag-and-drop user interface. When incidents occur, EHS professionals receive real-time alerts through the platform, email or SMS to help the rapid remediation of issues.
Intenseye’s platform goes beyond monitoring and alerting on the facility floor. EHS teams trust the platform as an all-in-one control room to drive EHS operational excellence. This means using EHS compliance rates across facilities and locations to create performance benchmarks, identify areas for improvement, diagnose problem areas, conduct root cause analysis and solution testing to run safer workplaces.
About Air Street Capital
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About Point Nine
Point Nine is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage internet investments. Since its founding in 2011, Point Nine has invested in SaaS startups such as Algolia, Automile, Contentful, and Typeform, as well as online marketplaces like Brainly, DocPlanner, and StarOfService. Before starting Point Nine, the firm’s founding partners, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz, were among the earliest backers of companies like Delivery Hero, Westwing and Zendesk. In June 2017, Point Nine announced the closing of a new €75M million fund, Point Nine Capital Fund IV.
About Intenseye
Intenseye is a New York City and Istanbul-based AI-powered employee health and safety (EHS) software platform that helps the world’s largest enterprises to scale employee health and safety across their facility footprints. Using the latest breakthroughs in computer vision, Intenseye empowers health and safety teams to monitor their facilities 24/7, receive real-time violation notifications, and operationalize their rapid response procedures. Since its founding in 2018, Intenseye’s software is today protecting over 30,000 employees across over 30 cities around the world for leading global industrial groups and Fortune 500 companies.
