Hardware Engineering Manager

CLPS and Coram join forces to provide schools in New York State with lower cost, yet higher-fidelity, 360-degree School Safety solutions. By CLPS & Coram | September 28, 2026 Partnership Enhances School Safety via Faster, More Comprehensive and Affordable Guest Management System ALBANY, NY [September 28, 2026]: CLPS and Coram today announced a strategic partnership that unifies Coram's industry-leading Guest Management System with CLPS's comprehensive suite of evidence-based school safety technologies and services, providing schools with robust, 360-degree school safety solutions. The partnership represents CLPS's commitment to providing schools with high-efficacy, fully integrated, yet practical and easy-to-use, methods to preventing and mitigating critical incidents at schools across the United States. CLPS serves approximately 20 percent of schools in New York State, along with local, county and state law enforcement agencies. The Guest Management System provides a secure digital check-in experience designed to give organizations greater visibility and confidence in ensuring the safety of students and staff. Key components include but are not limited to: Extensive Background Screening: * screens against 650 million records across 2,400 sources (state criminal repositories, county courthouses, arrest/warrant databases, sex-offender registries) in all 50 states, D.C. and U.S. territories * operates on three layers: blacklist match, ID verification and criminal background check * provides a "Pending Approval" workflow (admin approve/deny, auto-deny if untouched after three hours) PII-Safe by Design: A privacy and compliance differentiator with no stored ID images, hashed document numbers (last 4 digits only), DOB discarded after use, encrypted photos. Competitors retain raw ID scans. Offline-first Kiosk: check-in (photos, IDs, signatures, NDA, consent) keeps working with no internet, syncing once reconnected - and flags a guest retroactively if a criminal record is identified once system is back online. Site-license Pricing: affordable, with one license per location and unlimited users (iPads) and unlimited searches "By integrating Coram's Guest Management System with our agnostic school safety portfolio, CLPS helps schools address one of the most important, and often overlooked, components of school security, which is knowing who is in the building and, in real time, seeing where they are," said Dr. Matthew Miraglia, President and CEO of CLPS. "This technology partnership enables CLPS to be a one-stop-shop provider for all school safety and security solutions and services." "Schools invest heavily in securing doors, preparing staff, and planning for emergencies, but the front desk often remains a critical security gap," said Ashesh Jain, Coram CEO. "A paper log records what visitors claim and can't verify identities or flag potential threats. Through our partnership with CLPS, we're excited to bring Coram Guest Management to more schools and help create safer campuses with fast, reliable visitor screening." The marriage of Coram's Guest Management System and CLPS's technologies and services will synergize security outcomes via CLPS's evidence-based School Safety Program, which includes: TAP App Security: * high-fidelity emergency alert communication system (multi-platform; iOS, Android, Windows, Chrome, Mac): Mobile App, Computer and Laptop App, Wearable Critical Alert Lanyards, Panic Buttons * allows instant real-time horizontal communication internally between employees and communicates with designated external organizations such as LEAs, 911 Centers, Real-time Crime Centers and Security * includes several emergency management features and is highly customizable for multiple verticals TAP App Student * provides students with a safety reporting tool to address threats of violence, self-harm, abuse, and other "see something say something" safety concerns * allows for anonymous reporting, tracking, and easy case management. Ideal for K-12 and Higher Education. Emergency Management & Reunification Plan * innovative system allows organizational managers and authorized system administrators to develop customized emergency management and reunification plans o the proprietary system includes essential sections, such as functional annexes, threat specific annexes, active assailant protocol, continuity of operations procedures, emergency response, threat assessment and medical response teams. * includes additional unique features such as digital imaging and mapping, automated safety drill reminders, and the capability to upload important documents and critical information to the plan Threat & Behavioral Assessments * school-based Threat Management assessments that include the Harm Prevention Threat Management (The Florida) model, Deisinger Threat Management model, Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale, and Bullying Intervention Security and Vulnerability Audits * the asset/target hardening component that provides comprehensive audits conducted by certified, highly trained security experts and combines analysis of quantitative and qualitative data * assesses risk levels in key areas, including emergency planning, physical security, policies and procedures, communication protocols and other environmental considerations * produces comprehensive digital reports that outline strengths, vulnerabilities, and actionable recommendations. The CLPS-Coram partnership will not only provide schools with the roadmap to get, and remain, compliant with all school safety mandates, but also empower progressive school leaders to go beyond the mandated requirements and implement best practices to achieve optimal security results. About Coram: Coram AI is an AI physical security platform that helps organizations investigate incidents faster, improve operational visibility, and coordinate response across video security, access control, guest management, and emergency workflows. Built to work with existing infrastructure, Coram enables organizations to modernize physical security operations without costly rip-and-replace projects. Trusted by more than 1,500 organizations across North America, Coram serves school districts, healthcare organizations, manufacturers, government agencies, places of worship, hospitality groups, retailers, and Fortune 500 enterprises. Learn more at www.coram.ai About CLPS: Founded in 2006, CLPS (Crisis Leadership Preparedness Solutions) is a leading threat management, emergency communication and security technology company providing high-efficacy evidence-based solutions that help prevent and mitigate death, injuries and asset losses caused by critical incidents. Its solutions include emergency communications, emergency management planning, intelligence threat monitoring, behavioral and threat assessments, vulnerability and security audits, risk protection order management, and customized training and support. CLPS serves a wide spectrum of verticals including but not limited to education, healthcare, government, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, faith based organizations and many others. For more information, visit www.CLPSconsultants.com. GUEST MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INFORMATION * Sex Offender Registry: 50 states, D.C. and all U.S. territories * Criminal Data Sources: 2,400-plus sources * State Criminal Repositories: all 50 states * Arrest and Warrant Records: all 50 states * Records Searched: 650 million-plus * Screening Speed: < 0.5 seconds * One record, not three systems. A guest's check-in, photo and ID sit next to the camera footage from the same minute and the door events from the same door. Same dashboard, same users, same site list as Coram cameras and access control. No integration project, no data export, no second login. * Works with the cameras already on the wall. Coram is camera-agnostic and runs on the IP cameras an organization already owns. Competing guest products that come bundled with a camera line only pay off if a customer commits to that one brand for everything. Most buildings are mixed. * Fast enough that nobody backs up at the door. Screening returns in under 0.5 seconds. End-to-end check-in takes about 90 seconds, including photo, ID and required forms. That matters at 7:45 a.m. in a school lobby. * Turned on, not deployed. Existing Coram video and access control customers enable visitor management inside the account they already have. No new vendor, no new server, no new contract cycle. * Scales by building, not by door. One site license covers a location no matter how many entrances it has. A high school can put an iPad at the main office, the gym and the bus loop for the same price as one.

Coram AI raises $35M series B to automate security investigations. The startup, founded by former Lyft and Zoox engineers, has grown to more than 1,500 sites since its Series A and is launching an investigation tool that automates multi-source security analysis. Redação Portal ERP Jun 11, 2026 T | Fonte: 18px Coram AI, a physical security software company whose platform connects cameras, access-control systems and visitor records into a unified interface, has raised $35 million in a Series B round co-led by Ansa Capital and Battery Ventures. UP.Partners, 8VC and Mosaic Ventures also participated. The round brings total funding to $66 million, following a $13.8 million Series A. The company was founded by Ashesh Jain and Peter Ondruska, both of whom spent years building AI systems for autonomous vehicles before shifting to physical security. Jain previously led autonomy engineering at Lyft's self-driving division and held engineering roles at Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company. Ondruska led AI research at Lyft and later joined Toyota's Woven division after Toyota acquired Lyft's self-driving technology in 2021. Their work on autonomous vehicles centered on training systems to interpret physical environments in real time, and Coram's approach draws on that background. Since the Series A, the company reports that revenue has grown fourfold and its customer base has tripled. The platform now operates across more than 1,500 sites in the United States and Canada, covering Fortune 500 companies, school districts, healthcare providers, manufacturers, municipalities and nonprofits. Named customers include 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, Hershey's Ice Cream, World YMCA and Lakepointe Church. Jain described the gap the company was built to address: "Most security systems just record what happened. Only later, after a manual search, might you find the incident. We spent years building AI that helps cars read a scene and act before someone gets hurt. The same approach protects the places people live and work: catch risks earlier, and keep schools, hospitals, and workplaces safer instead of just documenting what went wrong." Alongside the funding, Coram announced a new feature called Deep Investigation. Rather than requiring security staff to search through footage manually, the tool analyzes video feeds, access-control logs and visitor activity across locations and time periods, then surfaces findings with supporting evidence. The feature is designed to let a smaller security team cover more ground without adding headcount. Allan Jean-Baptiste, co-founder and managing partner at Ansa Capital and a Coram board member, framed the investment in terms of where he sees the physical security market heading: "Physical security is one of the largest industries yet to be transformed by modern AI. Coram's founders bring a rare combination of frontier AI expertise and deep conviction about where the market is headed. Their rapid growth demonstrates that organizations are looking for more than cameras and monitoring tools. They want intelligence that helps them operate more safely, efficiently, and proactively." Marcus Ryu, a partner at Battery Ventures, pointed to the data model as the basis for the platform's capabilities: "Coram AI's hardware-enabled software anchors intelligence in first-party data to deliver capabilities far beyond what traditional security systems can offer. We're enthusiastic to deepen our partnership with the Coram team with this Series B investment." Two customers offered specific accounts of how the platform operates in practice. Hershey's Ice Cream, whose facilities produce millions of gallons of ice cream annually for nationwide distribution, uses Coram across its properties. Stephen Hoffer, the company's IT director, said the system has changed staffing requirements: "Coram's AI capabilities mean there is no live person required to watch footage all day. The system works in the background, so our staff can focus on their actual jobs." Zach Waite, VP of production development at Hershey's Ice Cream, added: "It's one of the best investments we've made in food safety and employee safety across our properties." Lakepointe Church, which operates eight campuses in the Dallas area and serves more than 30,000 congregants, also uses the platform. Bill Crowsey, the church's director of information technology, said: "I would recommend Coram because we have seen great benefits in the features of AI with their system, also the ease of deployment, as well as just the overall gain and efficiency from a technology standpoint." Redação Portal ERP. Editorial Team