{"id":66769,"date":"2016-01-26T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=66769"},"modified":"2016-01-26T11:01:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T07:01:50","slug":"sentinel-alert-raises-seed-round","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/sentinel-alert-raises-seed-round","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel Alert Raises Seed Round to Grow Team, Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sentinel Alert has raised a seed round.<\/p>\n

The St. John’s-based startup raised $525,000 from Pelorus Venture Capital, the manager of Venture Newfoundland and Labrador, equity investment firm Killick Capital, and a private angel investor.<\/p>\n

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Some of the investment spend will go towards growing the Sentinel Alert team<\/a> so the company can scale to meet anticipated market demand.<\/p>\n

“Sentinel Alert is building connected teams to create safer and smarter job sites so teams can go home safe everyday. Creating jobs and expanding access to new markets provides a forum for considerable growth for our company—we look forward to making a powerful, substantial impact on safe work in Canada, the US and beyond,” says Sarah Murphy, CEO of Sentinel Alert.<\/p>\n

Sentinel Alert recently competed in the Women’s Entrepreneur’s Bootcamp at Communitech in Kitchener in October. The company won first place in the pitch competition and brought home $35,000 in seed funding.<\/p>\n

The team will be returning to Communitech this spring to work with Deloitte’s innovation lab team, d {}<\/a>, a prototyping hub dedicated to accelerating the development of new products and services that leverage emerging technologies.<\/p>\n

Sentinel Alert’s worker safety solution<\/a> helps industrial companies reduce worker accidents and recognize new operational trends from the field.<\/p>\n

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Sentinel Alert has raised a seed round. The St. John’s-based startup raised $525,000 from Pelorus Venture Capital, the manager of Venture Newfoundland and Labrador, equity investment firm Killick Capital, and a private angel investor. Some of the investment spend will go towards growing the Sentinel Alert team so the company can scale to meet anticipated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":66771,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-66769","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/66769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/66769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/66771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66769"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=66769"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=66769"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=66769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}