TechCrunch Startup News Conntour raises $7M to build an AI search engine for security video systems; plus, Lucid Bots raises $20M for its window-washing drones
Mar 27, 2026
A look at an AI tool that lets security teams search camera footage with natural language and automated threat detection. Discussion of ethical boundaries and how the company vets customers. Coverage of window-cleaning and power-washing robots that scaled quickly and raised substantial funding to meet rising demand.
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Natural Language Search For Security Video
- Conntour offers a Google-like natural language search over security camera feeds to find objects, people, or situations in real time.
- The platform uses multiple vision and language models plus model-selection logic to search thousands of feeds efficiently, claiming 50 cameras per RTX 4090 GPU.
Select Customers To Control Use Cases
- Be selective about customers when selling powerful surveillance tools to manage ethical and legal risk.
- Contour's Matan Goldner says their large government and public customers let them choose morally acceptable use cases.
Scaling Video AI By Smart Model Selection
- Contour prioritizes compute efficiency by selecting which models and logic to run per query rather than running monolithic LLMs on every feed.
- This lets the company claim high scalability, e.g., monitoring up to 50 cameras on one consumer GPU.