Prime Minute has emerged from stealth with $15 million in pre-seed funding led by Eclipse, with participation from 8VC. The Palo Alto-based company is building integrated systems combining AI, software, hardware, and operations to strengthen infrastructure resilience against natural disasters, beginning with wildfire suppression. The company's first offering addresses rapid initial attack against wildfires before they escalate. Wildfires contribute an estimated $424 billion in annual damages across the United States. Prime Minute's system combines real-time intelligence, AI-assisted mission analysis, and precision aerial suppression capabilities to enable response during high winds, nighttime incidents, and when ground crews cannot access the scene. Founded by former operators and technology leaders from organisations including Palantir, Forterra, and Datorios, Prime Minute is working with the State of Colorado to deploy prototypes for field evaluation later this year.

Sep 28, 2023 - News - Unstructured data is the undiscovered country of the enterprise, containing the institutional wisdom AI seeks to capture. Unlocking the value of that data has proved elusive, as both enterprise search and LLMs have fallen short individually. Aryn's mission is to help you answer questions from all of your data. To this end, Aryn is bringing generative AI to OpenSearch and data preparation - and bridging the gap from results to answers.