| Vertical | Nature Restoration |
| Size | 51-100 employees (LinkedIn) |
| Stage | Series A |
| Investors | Valor Equity Partners, Convective Capital, Congruent Ventures () |
| Location | SF | Remote |
| Website | Pano AI website |
What Pano AI makes
Hardware, software, and AI to support wildfire response teams in real-time with fire detection, confirmation, monitoring, and alerting.
Company Info
Pano AI (Pano) is the leader in early wildfire detection and intelligence, providing government, utilities, insurers, and private landowners with advanced tools and up-to-the-minute intelligence to quickly mitigate wildfire threats while protecting lives, property, and the environment. Pano combines advanced hardware, artificial intelligence, and software in a single integrated enterprise solution. Leveraging data and satellite feeds, as well as proprietary imagery from a network of ultra-high-definition, 360-degree cameras atop high vantage points, Pano’s artificial intelligence model produces a real-time picture of threats in a geographic region and delivers immediate, actionable intelligence.
Role of software at Pano AI
Every minute matters in fire response. As climate change amplifies the intensity of wildfires—with longer fire seasons, dryer fuels, and faster winds—new ignitions spread faster and put more communities at risk.
Today, most wildfires are detected by bystanders and reported via 911, meaning it can take hours to detect a fire, verify its exact location and size, and dispatch first responders. Fire authorities need a faster way to detect, confirm, and pinpoint fires so that they can quickly respond—preventing small flare-ups from becoming devastating infernos.
Pano is a venture-backed early-stage climate tech startup that is the leader in wildfire early detection, leveraging the latest advancements in IoT, AI, satellites, and SaaS software to deliver actionable intelligence to customers.
Pano leverages mountaintop cameras and satellites to detect the first traces of smoke and put real-time fire images in the hands of asset owners and first responders to speed up containment. Pano is already partnering with major utilities, fire authorities, and government agencies in the USA and Australia.
Recent media coverage includes being named one of the Top 10 most innovative companies in AI of 2023 by FastCompany and recipient of the Innovative Mobile Service and Application Award at Mobile World Congress through our partnership with T-Mobile.
Engineers at Pano strategize, design, and execute the user interface and experience for a single-page mobile-response enterprise-grade application dedicated to early wildfire detection, with thousands of users.
Engineers at Pano are also key members of the detection team that develops and deploys AI to detect wildfires in mountaintop camera and satellite images. They develop and maintain systems to manage large volumes of data, ranging from small structured data sources to large volumes of images.
Pano AI's Trajectory
Already achieved millions in annual recurring revenue with its first product
Expects to raise a Series B to develop and launch additional products
Pano AI's Climate Impact
Wildfires drive significant carbon emissions
Nearly half a gigaton of carbon (or 1.76 billion tons of CO2) was released from burning boreal forests in North America and Eurasia in 2021, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade0805
To put this in perspective, boreal fires released nearly twice as much CO2 as global aviation in 2021
Even worse, in 2022 wildfires emitted around 5.3 billion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere, which rivals the impact of entire nations’ industrial activities, https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-monitoring-extreme-wildfire-emissions-2022
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