Lisa Falzone and Chris Ciabarra think artificial intelligence (AI) could play a key role in preventing mass shootings. The serial entrepreneurs cofounded Athena Security, a startup that's developing a machine learning layer for security cameras in retailers, corporations, and schools.
In the first 21 weeks of 2018 alone, there were more than 23 school shootings that resulted in death or injury in the U.S. Gun violence across the country might be on the decline, but when it does occur, the results are often tragic. That’s one of the reasons 34 percent of parents fear for their child’s physical safety at school, a recent poll found — almost triple the number of parents from 2013.
Lisa Falzone and Chris Ciabarra think artificial intelligence (AI) could play a key role in preventing mass shootings. The serial entrepreneurs cofounded Athena Security, a startup that’s developing a machine learning layer for security cameras in retailers, corporations, and schools.
It’s their first venture after Revel Systems, an iPad point-of-sale company they sold in 2017.
“These school shootings left us really disturbed. It’s a lot of death that shouldn’t happen with modern technology,” Falzone told VentureBeat in a phone interview. “Chris and I asked ourselves, if we could help save students’ lives we had to pour our heart and soul into [this] … It was around the time of the Las Vegas shooting when we realized that we could parlay our cloud … expertise with Revel to create an AI-powered system.”
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