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Sequoia Capital
Making Cities Awesome: Peregrine’s Nick Noone & Ben Rudolph
52 minutes Posted Sep 1, 2026 at 9:00 am.
Introduction
What Forward Deployed Engineering Means
What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong
UNHCR, Dimagi And Downstream Data Problems
Why Cities, Why Safety
Two Dozen Nos And San Pablo PD
Building Through Defund The Police
The Inversion Of The Collection Model
Data Ownership And Governance
From Nice Search To Deep Analysis
Agents Writing The Integrations
The Cold Case Agent
The Anti-Network-Effect Proposition
Facial Recognition And Hard Decisions
Technology For The Underdogs
Trusting The Individual Contributor
Ten Thousand Cities
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Most public safety technology companies grow by collecting more data. Peregrine inverted the model: no sensors, no new data, a business built on connecting the data and information cities already own. Co-founders Nick Noone and Ben Rudolph received more than two dozen no's before San Pablo PD let them in the door in February 2018. Today, Peregrine powers law enforcement, emergency medical services, fire and rescue, and other services in more than 400 cities and communities globally. Nick and Ben explain their north star for data sovereignty, and discuss how Peregrine's philosophy and privacy-first approach to data access and ownership preserves individual privacy and cities' sovereignty. They walk through how AI and long-horizon agents are being deployed: a cold case agent that reproduced an exoneration detectives had reached by hand, a Wisconsin county that placed a suspect using cell records buried in 300GB of evidence, identifying threats to a synagogue, root-causing an escalation in weather-related incidents, and more.