2020 was the most active hurricane season in terms of tropical depressions and named storms. A record-setting wildfire season was also recorded for the state of California and the United States as a whole. Soon after the hurricane and wildfire seasons ended, winter storms swept through the north-eastern US, breaking records in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York, affecting 60 million people due to large-scale power outages. 

The state of California has witnessed a series of blazing wildfires and large-scale power outages in recent years. But 2020 beat all records. According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the year 2020 was the largest wildfire year ever recorded in California history. During the 2020 wildfire season alone, 8100 fires have been recorded in the state.

We, at AiDash, are proud and thrilled to announce that we’ve raised $6 million in a Series A funding round, led by Benhamou Global Ventures and National Grid Partners today. As part of the financing, we’re ecstatic to welcome Yashwanth Hemaraj, Partner at BGV and Andre Turenne, Director at NGP, to the AiDash board. 

Wildfires have set California ablaze again this year with 4,465 fires reported up until July 26. As this year’s wildfire season seems exceedingly threatening, power utilities are on the edge, trying different measures for wildfire mitigation. But are they on the right track?

The COVID-19 pandemic has infected more than 400,000 people around the world. Despite that, most core industries, including but not limited to power utilities, telecom, oil & gas, transportation, have a special responsibility in these times to continue operations.

San Francisco Bay Area-based vertical SaaS company AiDash has opened a new office in Reston Metro Plaza, Reston, Virginia. The rapidly growing AI-First company is aiming to hire the best talent on the East Coast to help meet the high demand for their products.

San Francisco Bay Area-based technology company AiDash is set to launch its new product for the power utility industry — the AiDash Intelligent Vegetation Management System (IVMS), at DistribuTech 2020 in San Antonio, TX. IVMS combines high-resolution multispectral satellite data and AI technology to provide real-time actionable insights and automates Vegetation Management operations for power utilities.

As expansion efforts continue to bear fruit in Silicon Valley, AiDash has announced a new office premises in Augustine Drive, Santa Clara, California. The company is looking to hire fresh talent for their R&D, Sales and Product teams to cope with rising demand for their products.

AiDash will be launching their brand-new product – the intelligent utility vegetation management system at Distributech 2020, one of the biggest events of the utility industry.