$515K of follow-on funding
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We raise $515,000 from three institutional investors to further develop our dash cam app for commercial vehicles.
We're interviewed on Startup Stories
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Mike Colwell interviews James & other members of the Drive Spotter team for Startup Stories in Des Moines.
Our first customer install
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Mike Colwell interviews James & other members of the Drive Spotter team for Startup Stories in Des Moines.
We pitch Steve Case, the founder of AOL
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We pitch our dash cam platform as one of eight finalists in the Rise of the Rest startup tour led by Steve Case, the founder of AOL.
$120K in funding from Techstars Mobility
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Our team is one of 12? companies in the 2016 cohort of Techstars Mobility in Detroit, MI led by Ted Serbinski todo link Ted @ LI
$750K in seed funding
our stop sign detector
We raise $750,000 from Grinnell Mutual (GMRC), Voss Distributing, and other key investors to further develop our dashcam platform
rebrand Rumble Road as Drive Spotter
our website launch
We retire our Rumble Road camera branding for our headlight & fleck branding created by Molly Misek.
build 3D scenes from 2D dashcam frames
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We submit our "Hovering Eagle" SBIR proposal to build 3D scenes from 2D dashcam frames to DoD.
$40K in funding from the Global Insurance Accelerator!
Rumble Road MVP
We receive $40K in funding as a startup in the first cohort of the Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA).
We submit our "Rumble Road" dashcam to DOT
dashcam driving simulator
We jointly submit our dashcam SBIR proposal in collaboration with Wichita State University to the Department of Transporation (DOT).