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eve Vehicles Corporation designs American-made drone systems for public safety, military, and private security. We use drone systems to help improve efficiency of human capital and resource allocation by facilitating customer operations. Our advanced drone systems can be accessed from anywhere in the world through our secure web portal.
Over the last two years, crime in Austin has risen by 200% and our police force shrunk by approximately 40%. If you were to call 911 right now, you would be looking at an average wait time of 9 minutes to speak with an operator and it would take another 45 minutes for police officers to show up. Lives are lost in these moments.
Our drones show up first at the scene of 911 calls within two minutes of speaking with an operator. Our drones autonomously fly to the scene from charging nests deployed around the city, and are then controlled by a drone pilot through our web portal once at the emergency scene. Potential customers love our "hands-off" subscription model, because we do all the maintenance, updating, and training for the system. We help bridge the gap of human resources in emergency services using robotic automation.
By showing up within 2 minutes, we can tell the city which resources to send, if they need to show up at all, and how to approach the situation safely. This system will save the city incredible amounts of money, and pay for itself.
Thanks to our VP of Partnerships, John Buell, we have been working with emergency services to create a product that is exactly what they need. Thanks to our purposeful design and industry insight, we have received letters of intent from Travis County Sheriff and EMS (Central/South Austin), Williamson County (North Austin-Georgetown), and Harris county (Houston), as well as a number of ranch and vineyard developers. Later this year we will be delivering our first QROW system for use at Q2 Stadium.
Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas, the number one state for startups in the U.S. Thousands of entrepreneurs, programmers, and designers gather day and night, in-person and online for meetups, classes, and coworking. With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to investors, employees, mentors, and customers. According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active, early-stage investor in Texas since 2010.
The research project is a collaboration between The University of Texas - Center for Electromechanics (UT-CEM) and the eve Vehicles Corporation. Initial research activities include:
1) Improving the performance of autonomous local energy generation
2) Increasing the efficiency of an eve Vehicles’ electric motor concept.
3) Testing and analysis of smart composite vehicle frame
We entered a Nation Security Innovation Network hackathon for the strategic use of energy. We won with our CROW concept and this really launched us as a company. We've gained great government connections from the program and were awarded $15k.
