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THE WATCH LIST: February 2025 Edition Charlie Anderson and Joshua Parsons embark on their 3-week sales roadshow from Coast to Coast. Plus, Quill automation pushing new boundaries. Book a meeting with Joshua at ISC West: https://lnkd.in/gRTAjtqT Level up your security: https://watchful.co.nz

USA Roadshow: 02/25 - 03/14 Charlie Anderson and Joshua Parsons are in the following locations on the following dates! If you're keen to connect in person, email charlie.anderson@watchful.co.nz. CALIFORNIA: San Fransisco / Bay Area: Tue 02/25 to Thu 02/27 TEXAS: Austin / San Antonio: Fri 02/28 Dallas: Mon 03/03 to Wed 03/05 OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma City: Thu 03/06 MISSOURI: Kansas City: Fri 03/07 PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh: Mon 03/10 Philadelphia: Tue 03/11 NEW YORK: New York City: Wed 03/12 to Fri 03/14

Auckland tech startup community! Join us for a happy hour networking event next month. RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/g-ExYfS5

Despite some of the doomsday commentary about both the NZ economy and VC investing habits in 2024 compared to 2021, there is plenty of capital looking for high-quality investment opportunities. At Icehouse Ventures, we invested $100M in 2024—tied for the most capital we’ve ever deployed in a single year—backing companies like Timescapes, Extraordinary, Watchful, Basis, New + Improved Ventures, and 84 other companies (new and follow on). In 2025, we expect to invest a similar amount. If you're a founder looking to raise capital this year, how do you maximise your chances of success? Think about it just like enterprise sales, and then break your approach down into three key parts: 1. Choose your investor pipeline carefully. → You don't need 100 pitches—you need the right 10. Be strategic in who you approach. 2. Build relationships early. → Venture investment is a long-term partnership—few investors will back founders they haven't built a relationship with over an extended period. 3. Create momentum. → Momentum closes deals; a lack of it kills them. Run your raise like a focused sprint, not a drawn-out marathon. Bonus points if you also take the time to understand how an Investment Committee (IC) works, and what you can do to make it easier for them to say yes. The capital is there—the founders closing big rounds in 2025 will be those who know what they’re building and are laser-focused on securing the right partners for their growth journey. I’ve outlined more detailed thoughts on the above here: https://lnkd.in/gAz323Rs

THE WATCH LIST: January 2025 Edition Introducing Connor Hare, a 19-year old Engineer building our Integration Hub! Gaming the system with game controller functionality. Plus, a sneak peek at Workflow Builder and whats to come in 2025. Level up your security: https://watchful.co.nz

Bulk adding devices to our security OS is about to get a whole lot easier. As part of our refreshed onboarding tools, bulk adding devices from a template means you can add and quickly add your cameras to Watchful's workflows, speeding up onboarding. Switching from your incumbent automation platform has never been easier: Join now at https://watchful.co.nz

Nuisance alarms within a Security Operations Centre slows down your Agents and wastes precious time. When Edge or Cloud alarm reduction tools aren't in play or your provider may be conservatively sending false alarms, moving through them quickly is key. With Quill's contextual analysis of images, false alarms like weather events can be managed in seconds. Take a look and grab your demo at https://watchful.co.nz 👇

Watchful is looking for a Software Engineer to help us scale our mission-critical platform. We have endless challenging and rewarding problems to solve, such as improving resiliency, throughput, user experience, or leveraging visual LLMs and object classification to ensure our users don't miss a bad person. If you would like to chat more about Watchful, please DM me.

Check out how our super-charged monitoring assistant, Quill, automatically fills out perpetrator information within the Watchful platform! In the past, agents would fill out information about a scene and suspects manually, taking up valuable time and resources. Now, with Quill and it's astonishing accuracy, critical information is collated in rapid time. All an agent needs to do is make any adjustments (if any), and complete the form. Watchful gives agents super powers. If you want to change the way your security team operates, get a demo at https://watchful.co.nz now.

Our OpenEye Playback & Live View integration is about to roll out, freshly cooked up by our engineering team. The integration enables agents to navigate across multiple alerting cameras at once in either timeline view or the camera drop-down selector, making it easy to understand the site. Interested in a demo? Head to https://watchful.co.nz now.