Friends and Family Lead $30 Million Series B in Peregrine

SAN FRANCISCO &&num;8212&semi; Peregrine, a data integration platform that allows state and local government agencies to protect and serve their communities, announced a &dollar;30 million Series B funding round led by Friends &amp&semi; Family Capital and Fifth Down Capital with participation by existing investors Goldcrest Capital, Craft Ventures, Godfrey Capital, and other committed partners&period;&NewLine;Peregrine enables leadership teams and personnel to make better split-second decisions in the highest-stakes circumstances&period; The applications of Peregrine’s technology are as varied as the priorities and challenges that face its customers&period;&NewLine;The technology is deployed to solve unique citywide, regional, or statewide priorities and challenges&period; Local public safety agencies use Peregrine to disrupt criminal activity and better engage with their communities on crime prevention&period; Major cities and counties use the technology to reduce gun crimes, advance fairness in the criminal justice system, and improve emergency response efforts&period; State and regional agencies deploy the technology to handle high-scale problems like getting fentanyl off the streets, preventing human trafficking, and facilitating interagency data sharing to address the drivers of violent crime&period; Customers continue to use the platform in new ways every day&period;&NewLine;Major Woolfolk, of the Atlanta Police Department, oversees officers in charge of reducing violent crimes, including aggravated assaults, carjackings, and robberies&period; He says, &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Peregrine has been integral to reducing violent crime, helping us connect and leverage the data we have to achieve our &OpenCurlyQuote;gangs, drugs, and guns’ mission&period;”&NewLine;A coordinated effort by the Atlanta Police Department last year resulted in a 21&percnt; reduction in all city crime&period; Woolfolk continued, &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Good technology makes researching and triaging more simple and more effective&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re a data-driven department, and we emphasize precision&period; Tools like Peregrine support our mission&period;”&NewLine;The new financing will fuel Peregrine’s continued growth, transforming how critical institutions within the public safety and criminal justice ecosystems – along with entire cities and counties – use data to improve outcomes and provide better services for the people they serve&period; The funding will also allow Peregrine to accelerate its hiring to more than double headcount in 2024&period;&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Peregrine builds technology to solve state, regional, and local government agencies’ hardest problems faster and more effectively&period; Importantly, we enable stronger communities while protecting the privacy and civil liberties of customer and citizen data,” said Nick Noone, CEO and co-founder of Peregrine&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We deploy and provide value in days or weeks, not months or years, at a price point our customers can afford&period; Technology platforms that can fundamentally change the way organizations make decisions are no longer reserved for the biggest public and private institutions with the largest budgets&period;”&NewLine;Peregrine connects structured and unstructured data across disparate sources to surface insights for some of the country’s most sophisticated government agencies&period; The platform enables search, investigation, management of operations, and secure collaboration in one place, enabling personnel to easily accomplish tasks that were once impractical or labor-intensive&period; The seamless integration of existing data of any type or scale empowers people, and entire organizations, to ask questions and get reliable answers in one place, in near real-time&period;&NewLine;

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