Seneca is a resilience technology and infrastructure company. We create autonomous drones and AI-driven software to support firefighters and protect the things we love. Our mission is to eliminate wildfire threat across 500 million acres in the US and allied nations. We do so by building products that support the firefighter in use cases that were previously unsafe, inefficient, or impossible. We prioritize innovations that protect lives, property, and ecosystems. Our focus is on both initial attack operations and beneficial fire support to create a balanced wildland fire cycle over the coming decades.
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Grateful to see Seneca on this list. But more physical AI needs to go into applications serving out communities, and stewarding our planet. If you want to build AI + robotics for good, come join us. Link to careers below, or DM me. Thx to our friends Bessemer Venture Partners for putting this together.
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highly biased take: awesome episode. Ben Morris looking good!!!
Quick suppression of new wildfires during extreme fire weather is critical in reducing losses, particularly in the Wildland Urban Interface, where neighborhoods back right up against wildland. Yet during peak fire season, it's increasingly common for initial attack resources to be spread too thin to respond to every new fire as quickly as is needed to prevent catastrophic spread. Seneca's autonomous, rapid response fire suppression drones were made for precisely this situation. Watch the full episode: https://lnkd.in/gYvXG9eB Bill Clerico Kat Mañalac Convective Capital Red Sky Summit
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Quick suppression of new wildfires during extreme fire weather is critical in reducing losses, particularly in the Wildland Urban Interface, where neighborhoods back right up against wildland. Yet during peak fire season, it's increasingly common for initial attack resources to be spread too thin to respond to every new fire as quickly as is needed to prevent catastrophic spread. Seneca's autonomous, rapid response fire suppression drones were made for precisely this situation. Watch the full episode: https://lnkd.in/gYvXG9eB Bill Clerico Kat Mañalac Convective Capital Red Sky Summit
We must tell optimistic stories about the future of wildfire. Many thanks to Bill Clerico Kat Mañalac and the Disasterproof team for sharing the story of Seneca -- and how autonomous early response can create meaningful change in the future of wildfire.
A new wildfire ignites during red-flag conditions at the height of fire season. Lightning strike, downed powerline, abandoned campfire — the cause doesn't matter. What matters is what happens in the next 20 minutes. Now imagine that the local fire department is already stretched across other incidents, and that the aircraft that could stop this fire from growing are committed elsewhere. That's not a hypothetical. That's the situation fire agencies face every major fire season. And it's exactly what Seneca was built for. This exact situation is what Seneca founder Stuart Landesberg is hoping to address with the company’s new autonomous, rapid response drone system. Designed for high-risk and low-resource situations, this drone system was made to significantly bolster firefighters’ initial attack capabilities on wildfires, requiring only one to two people to deploy. “If we were up on a ridgeline on a high fire risk day, the fact that you could run this with one or two people for 30 or 40 minutes rather than having to send a full team up into the brush for many hours, that could be the difference between having folks available for a structure fire, for another incident that needs attention,” Landesberg said. Recently, Bill Clerico spent a day in the field with Seneca, testing the system and exploring how autonomous drones could become an essential tool in the firefighting toolkit as catastrophic wildfire risk increases in communities across the West. Watch our episode with Seneca on YouTube. https://lnkd.in/gYvXG9eB
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After thousands of hours alongside firefighters, from briefing rooms with Air Ops chiefs to ride-alongs in the field, Seneca had a clear goal: build a product that improves initial attack and situations where current air operations are unsafe or impossible. Fire aviators are among the true heroes of our nation (and are incredibly badass); grateful to have had their counsel on how to safely add to the airborne firefighting fleet. Thank you to Air Attack Magazine for covering the stories that matter to aerial firefighters, and to Nicholas A. Veronico for the in-depth feature on Seneca's origin and technology. Link in comments for the full story. cc: Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell, Kevin Fetterman, Rick Balentine, Stu Sprung, Dan Munsey, MPA, EFO, CFO, Jacob Andersen, MBA, CPM, Chuck Macfarland, Kim Zagaris, Bill Clerico, Adrian Aoun, Nick Foley
@thehotshotwakeup is the most thoughtful voice on all things wildfire. Their ongoing coverage of how technology can support the fire service is essential listening. Check out yesterday's episode covering our upcoming deployment with the Aspen Fire Protection District. Link in the comments.
I learned about wildfire by listening to @thehotshotwakeup. Tim is as real as they come. Thanks for all you do for the fire community -- from mental health, to technology, to near-real-time fire updates. Grateful for the coverage of our progress at Seneca.
"We have this incredibly talented, devoted group of public servants. We want to give them the best technology in the world.” - Founder & CEO Stuart Landesberg Thank you to Cyrus Farivar and Ars Technica for covering our upcoming deployment with the Aspen Fire Protection District.
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Speaking with leaders at Western Fire Chiefs Association's IGNITE, and it is extremely clear: we're facing an unprecedented level of fire risk across the West, and it's only March. We must equip our men and women on the ground with the tools to combat this growing threat. Thank you to KREX 5 and Marj Tobin for having Jacob Andersen, MBA, CPM and I on to highlight Seneca's upcoming deployment and long term potential. Link to the full story in the comments.
The U.S. has a long history of leading the world in innovation through exceptional public, private partnerships. Grateful for Jared Polis's leadership in advancing the next generation of resilience.
To keep up with technology, support from the top matters. It matters to the firefighters on the ground searching for the best technology, and it matters enormously for startups building solutions for the government agencies that we all rely on to keep us safe. Grateful to Colorado Governor Jared Polis for highlighting Seneca. And kudos for continuing to push forward on fire preparedness. cc: Jacob Andersen, MBA, CPM Rick Balentine, Angie Davlyn, Ali Hager Hammond Aspen Fire Protection District