“My whole life is preparing me for this moment,” Ben Sanders said when asked why he started starting the urgent response of the hyper. The company announced a $ 6.3 million seed on Monday, led by Eniac Ventures, as well as an official appearance by Stealth.
As a child, he wanted to become a police officer that he had his mother to sew yellow stripes in his sailors. He was wearing this with a rainfall of an officer for a whole year. As he grew up, he worked at the intersection of technology and the government and once ran for a federal office.
About a year ago he read a news article on how his homeland was looking for AI to reduce the waiting time for emergency services. Sanders, who once started an AI voice for movement restaurants, suddenly had an idea. Although he did not believe that AI was ready to help with 911 calls, he thought this was a place for innovation, especially after realizing that most of the emergency calls were not considered no emergency calls.
Sanders worked with his friend Damian McCabe. The twin officially started Hyper on Monday, offering a AI voice company that can handle about 911 calls. Sanders, who is Managing Director, said the product is to deal with the non -emergency calls that need time from these critical calls that determine the “difference between life and death”. McCabe is the company’s CPO.
At the moment, even if one seemed to call their local police station, they will find more often a 10 -digit number that launches them to the same people who receive 911 calls.
“Imagine getting stuck talking to someone for eight minutes about a neighbor’s dog, just to answer the next call late, due to this noise complaint and listen to the crazy voice of a 5 -year -old whose dad just collapsed on the floor,” Sanders said.
Hyper answers questions, links links, calls and even reports of non -emergency police reports. “Hyper always plays safe, so if calls do not fall out of the approved scope or if one sounds slightly more emergency, we can automatically escalate them to a human expert only in case.”
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Sanders described the process of concentrating capital as “frenzied, maniac and fast”. It took him less than two months to raise the whole round, which eventually exceeds and included consequent capital. Ripple Ventures, Greatpoint Ventures, VSC Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners and K5 Global also participated in the round. Sanders said he met with his connection to Eniac Ventures through mutual acquaintance.
Hyper hopes to use fresh capital to help the scale throughout the country, to integrate more into existing 911 systems, to hire an engineering head and build its next product. There is some competition in this area, such as Aurelian, which also classifies non -emergency calls. Sanders said that what makes Hyper different from the rest is his focus on 911.
“We train our models in real 911 calls with local organizations,” he said. “We support more languages and have already lived with many centers, which is a major operational obstacle to government and public security.”
Sanders hopes that Hyper can remove at least one of the stress associated with being called 911, in a way that may bring even more people to the profession. At the moment, he says, most call centers do not result in and struggling to hire.
“It’s such a hard work. I don’t even know if I could do it,” Sanders said. “But I know how to build technology that can help, to help calls and senders who are the obscure heroes, to reduce their weight by facing non -urgent calls and noise and in this way they ultimately help save lives.”
