A young company making drones designed to detect a loaded firearm and, if needed, get in between a shooter and a potential victim, is getting its first round of financing.
Pan American Drone, founded by CEO Leah LaSalla, just raised $3 million in seed financing at a $100 million valuation through a private placement from tech firm Wavv, based in Canada. The money will go to hiring more employees and getting production ready by mid-year through logistics partner Arrow, a major electronics manufacturer that works with Intel, Nvidia and others.
The drones are off-the-shelf hardware equipped with LaSalla’s method of detecting firearms and bullets using WiFi sensors and electromagnetic waves. The point is to detect a firearm on a person in an area a drone may be surveying, determine whether it’s loaded, and then decide if there’s a threat of the firearm being used.
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