Santa Cruz Accelerates member, Robotics Cats, creator of AI wildfire detection tools, has been selected as one of the ten SilvaTech Growth Accelerator cohorts.

SilvaTech is a free, hybrid, 8 month long international startup acceleration program powered by JSC Latvia’s State Forests (LVM) and Startup Wise Guys (SWG) accelerator to promote innovation and efficiency within the forestry sector.

LVM is the largest forest management company in Latvia which manages 1.62 million hectares of state-owned forest property and public forest in Latvia. LVM’s business focuses primarily on forestry as well as hunting and recreation services, producing seeds and seedlings, and subterranean resources such as: sand, gravel, peat.

SWG is one of the largest early-stage investors in Europe and has invested in more than 250+ early-stage startups with founders from more than 40 countries.

As a company whose tech is focused on preventing wildfires, forestry is a major market for Robotics Cats. Robotics Cats has been working with forestry companies all across the globe including in Australia, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, Mexico, and Portugal. Robotics Cats is eager to continue to seek opportunities to grow, share innovative ideas, and have their assumptions validated by industry forestry experts.

About Robotics Cats

Robotics Cats builds AI-powered tools for governments, businesses, and people to mitigate wildfire by early detection. The earlier we detect a wildfire, the better actions we can take to control it. Wildfire is a global problem. Government alone is not enough to combat wildfire. We need businesses and people to participate in reducing wildfire risks and damages more effectively. We developed LookOut to help businesses and people to protect their assets and communities. It is flexible. It is quick-to-deploy. It is easy-to-use.

Our LookOut wildfire detection Software-as-a-Service works with existing video cameras. New hardware is not required, and therefore deployment is much faster! You can turn on LookOut on your video camera in 5 minutes. LookOut uses Machine Learning object detection to detect wildfire from the images captured by the camera. It detects wildfire automatically and accurately 24/7. If LookOut finds anything suspicious, it will send alerts to users via mobile app. It is easy to use. LookOut is deployed in 5 markets now. LookOut will serve 12 countries by the end of 2021. We will bring LookOut to Santa Cruz very soon!