Qylur Security Systems raising $3.4 million round
Qylur Security Systems is raising a $3.4 million first round of capital to support it Homeland Security business, VentureBeat has learned.
The Palo Alto, Calif., company’s web site site says it is creating an “advanced integrated screening security system. It shows images of sports stadiums, crowded venues, and airport security lines. The company says its technology takes cues from nature with parallel threat detection sensors. It aims for security checkpoints with faster throughput of people and eliminating the need for them to pull things out of their pockets to send them through airport X-ray machines.
Investors in the round include Alysia Sagi-Dolev, Peter Harris, Barry Peters, Thomas E. Turner, Mordechai Brudo, James L. Bellinson, Paul Hodges III, Joshua Landes, Yochi Cohen, Ellen Block, and the Tessler Family Partnership. So far it has raised $2 million of the $3.4 million being sought. The company did not return a request for comment.
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