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Jeb Bush joins Bill Gates to back Waltham weapons detection startup
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| 01/08/2020
| Lucia Maffei
Posted on 01/09/2020 12:15:07 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Evolv Technology, a 7-year-old maker of sensors and software aimed at detecting weapons or other threats concealed on people, is adding another high-profile investor as its CEO switches to a more technical role within the company.
The Waltham-based company announced on Wednesday $30 million in a new funding round led by former Florida Governor Jeb Bushs firm, Finback Investment Partners. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Co-Founder Bill Gates, is a returning investor in the Series C round.
Jeb and his group fully understood the opportunity here, said Peter George, the companys newly-promoted CEO. As the former governor in Florida, where there have been a lot of unfortunately shootings, including the Parkland school shooting, hes well aware of the active shooter (situation), and wanted to make
schools and venues safer.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; billgates; bush; evolvtechnology; finbackinvestment; florida; gates; jeb; jebbush; jebito; microsoft; nra; petergeorge; secondamendment; waltham; weapons
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To: ChicagoConservative27
what’s in it for Jeb? More guacamole ?
To: ChicagoConservative27
> whats in it for Jeb? <
Hes probably doing it for the applause.
So please clap.
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:20:28 PM PST
by
Leaning Right
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Jeb saying he wants to ‘make schools safer’ makes me wonder what that really means to him. By doing what, Jeb?
Slowly whittling away at the Second Amendment?
Jeb tends to support World View approaches.
Wasn’t he firmly behind Common Core, inspite of evidence that it was not helping students learn more quickly?
To: ChicagoConservative27
They’re globalists and they hate you. You are a serf.
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:21:48 PM PST
by
dljordan
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:22:09 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
I see plenty of government contracts in their future!
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:23:31 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: ChicagoConservative27
So...did Bush and Gates leave THEIR ARMED PROTECTION at home????
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:25:09 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office...")
To: ChicagoConservative27
wanted to make
schools and venues safer.What venues? Other soft targets?
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:27:41 PM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: ChicagoConservative27
So so glad Bill Gates and Jeb Bush are involved in such a grand new idea.
Why I can see it now. Some punk with a gun starts killing kindergarten and 1st graders. Meanwhile in the unarmed principles office.....
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:28:35 PM PST
by
Bommer
(2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
I don’t think i will sit around waiting for low energy Jeb to protect families life.
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:32:02 PM PST
by
Leep
(Everyday is Trump Day!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Good for stores and offices, not on the street.
The places that can afford it, aren't likely targets.
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:32:06 PM PST
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:33:35 PM PST
by
PGalt
(Past Peak Civilization?)
To: ChicagoConservative27
The Bush family has done more damage to this country than even the Kenyan from Indonesia.
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:36:36 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: ChicagoConservative27
"shootings, including the Parkland school shooting, hes well aware of the active shooter (situation), and wanted to make
schools and venues safer"
So would the cowards of Broward County have done a better job if an app on their phone set off a little bell?
The best outcome this company will ever provide is an electronic record of who didn't do their job, or follow existing laws (which can all be promptly erased via BleachBit).
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:37:01 PM PST
by
indthkr
To: ChicagoConservative27
Jeb and his group fully understood the opportunity here, said Peter George, the companys newly-promoted CEO. As the former governor in Florida, where there have been a lot of unfortunately shootings, including the Parkland school shooting, hes well aware of the active shooter (situation), and wanted to make
schools and venues safer.
...
The government will force the taxpayer to pay a fortune for this system, whether it works or not, and put it in the schools.
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:39:19 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(Charity comes from wealth.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Evolv Technology, a 7-year-old maker of sensors and software aimed at detecting weapons or other threats concealed on people Are they trying to be able to identify legal concealed carry individuals?
We already have sensors at public events.
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:54:06 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(The Leftistist media and particularly CNN NEWS should come with a ten day supply of Cipro.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Tippy Toes....where you get all that dough?
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:54:29 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
To: Lurkinanloomin
I’d not agree with that.....but you can’t and I can’t prove it.
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posted on
01/09/2020 12:56:28 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
To: ChicagoConservative27
So, my lead-lined jockstrap is a no-no?
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posted on
01/09/2020 1:22:34 PM PST
by
Scrambler Bob
(This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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