Tag: 3VR

SAN FRANCISCO—3VR, a video intelligence company based here, expanded a year ago into a manufacturer representative model with positive results in the last 12 months.“To date, we have signed [10] rep firms, covering the U.S., some of Canada and some of Latin America,” Jeff Karnes, 3VR's senior VP of marketing and operations, told Security Systems News. “There are one or two additional territories that we would like to fill, but by and large we feel that we have the coverage...

YARMOUTH, Maine—Biometrics is the present and the future of access control. Some integrators and manufacturers of facial, iris and fingerprint recognition systems talk as if the markets are growing so fast that cards and keys may seem as old-school as paper checks. Others, however, caution that end users still need time to digest what is happening and what's ahead.John Aksoy, president and CEO of Plugout, a technology integration-solutions firm based in New York City, said, “It's definitely...

Prism Skylabs, a two-year-old startup founded by Ron Palmeri and 3VR's Steve Russell today announced a $15 million Series B funding round led by Intel Capital, Intel Corporations' investment and M&A business. The round included investments from Presidio Ventures, Triangle Peak, Data Collective, Expa, and some existing investors, Russell told me. Prism Skylab is a cloud service that transforms any video camera “into visual merchandising, auditing and business intelligence tool that can be accessed...

Prism Skylabs, a cloud-based service that enables business owners to use data from existing video surveillance cameras for business intelligence, marketing and other purposes, is looking at doing a $10 million Series B funding round, according to a report published on PE Hub today. I emailed Steve Russell, Prism Skylabs CEO and founder of 3VR, this morning to ask when the new funding round would happen. He didn't give me an definitive answer, but said he'll keep me posted. The PE Hub report was a...

SAN FRANCISCO—Prism Skylabs, a cloud-based service that enables business owners to use data from existing video surveillance cameras for business intelligence, marketing and other purposes, last week launched a partner program.Prism, launched in August 2011 by 3VR founder Steve Russell, recently raised $7.5 million in funding. Prism's service has been in beta for a year, but its software is now available to integrators.“Integrators can make $100-plus per site per month reselling Prism's...

SAN FRANCISCO—Prism Skylabs, a startup company that "leverages data from existing video surveillance cameras to unlock information on customer patterns, trends and behaviors," on Oct. 16 announced it had raised another $7.5 million in funding.Company founder Steve Russell, also founder of 3VR, launched Prism Skylabs in August 2011.Prism Skylab's service will be available for download in November. For the past year, “we've been in invite-only use, working with select large and important...

Prism Skylabs has raised another $7.5 milliion in funding, the company announced today. Here's a link to the story. I've put a call into founder Steve Russell, (also founder of 3VR) and expect I'll get a chance to speak to him in the next few day. Prism Skylabs, which offers a cloud service that "leverages data from existing video surveillance cameras to unlock information on customer patterns, trends and behaviors",  was launched just before ASIS 2012. Here's an ssnTVnews video interview I did...

SAN FRANCISCO—3VR a video intelligence company, on June 29 announced two major appointments to its executive team as the company continues to expand. Charlie Ryan has joined the company as CFO and Tony Craythorne will serve as senior vice president of global channels. Both Ryan and Craythorne are seasoned executives with venture and public company experience. Most recently, Ryan served as CFO for Sensage, an enterprise software company in the security sector. Craythorne comes to 3VR with relevant...

SAN FRANCISCO—For intelligent analytics and search solution provider 3VR, the coming year “will be very much about the channel partners,” 3VR's CMO Aisling MacRunnels told Security Systems News on Dec. 27. And 3VR will use its recently closed $17 million round of funding to invest in its channel partnerships, as well as to expand its presence in certain vertical markets and grow globally. “Some of the regional guys have been early adopters [integrators such as SSI in California,...

SAN FRANCISCO–3VR Security, an intelligent analytics and search solution provider, on Dec. 1 announced a partnership with High-Tech Solutions (HTS), a provider of license-plate recognition technology.   3VR was looking for the “very best license-plate recognition analytics” to combine with its video search engine for use in airports and other public facilities, said Aisling MacRunnels, CMO for 3VR. HTS's solutions are currently used in the U.S. and overseas for scanning and identifying...