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Erick Coser and Otávio Costa Miranda travel back to Brazil in 2019 to solve a large , yet unsolved problem in Latin America .
Both had backgrounds in build company to solve urban problems and identify a trouble with safety and how data was being shared .
“ Brazilian citizen are already some of the world ’s top acquirers of private CCTV systems , which is easy to discover as one walks around the streets of Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo , ” Costa Miranda told TechCrunch via email . “ At the same time , Brazilian cities lie in amongst the ace with the lowest number of cameras per thousand citizen , the independent primal performance indicator for measuring how well - monitored a city is . ”
Costa Miranda said metropolis like New York and Los Angeles have 10 cameras per 1,000 people , while in London , that is more than 60 camera . Meanwhile in São Paulo , that is one photographic camera per thousand people . In fact , Costa Miranda called São Paulo “ Brazil ’s best - monitored city . ”
Instead , citizen there are utilise their own decentralized surveillance grid , but using cheap and outdated cameras that are n’t accessible by law officers working to solve crimes .
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Coser and Costa Miranda drew on the experiences of Europe to createGabrielin 2020 . The companionship integrates cameras and estimator vision with mundane police operations to address public guard challenges across Latin America .
“ In the retiring three years , we already own Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo ’s densest photographic camera networks , ” Costa Miranda said .
This includes thousands of wise camera in mental process . The fellowship shoot a line that its web has help police officers identify an norm of six crime per Clarence Day , a 5x increase in the past 12 months .
Over the past class , Gabriel go from a minus glaring margin patronage to one with SaaS - alike gross profit margin . It also increased its average ticket and doubled taxation year over year .
Today , the caller announced $ 7 million in fresh support in a round co - led by Qualcomm Ventures and Astella . It also included existing investor SoftBank , Canary , LTS , Globo Ventures , Norte and Endeavor .
Coser and Costa Miranda intend on using the new financial support to acquire further technology so that security business owners , authorities , agent and third - party providers can go Gabriel ’s system on a self - serve basis .
“ Making Latin America safe is one of those big , bold wager , ” Coser said via email . “ To get there , we still have mountain of work to do to build up a human race - class video monitoring system combine with metropolis - wide abnormalities detection and dispatch , fully interoperable with our hardware , easy to set up and affordable . That walks side - by - side with strong investing in the coup of São Paulo in 2024 and preparations for launching new cities in 2025 . ”
inscrutable tech in Latin America and the Caribbean is fix to rocket
