It’s no secret I am a huge fan of Mark43. I’ve gotten to know them over the last couple of years and have a ton of respect for their product, culture, and the impact they are having on the way policing is done in this country. The founding team was kind enough to take some…

Software and data analytics company Mark43 helps cops enter crime reports faster. The aim is to improve efficiency, getting more police out from behind desks and on the streets, driving down crime levels.

“I have worked in departments where they rely on paper forms and it takes 24 hours to put in a report in the system,” [CCPD Director of Strategic Intelligence Analysis] said. “Here in Camden we know what is going on hour to hour and minute to minute and we can adjust our deployment accordingly.

For Scott Crouch, building his startup included several hours in a police car. The Harvard graduate first began working on his software company, Mark43, in 2012 when he was given a class project to work with the Massachusetts state police department. During the project, he had to figure out how to use data and software…

The New York tech scene is on the rise. In just the last few months, we’ve seen the $3 billion-dollar acquisition of Jet and talks of IPOs on the horizon for Blue Apron. Silicon Valley giants like Google continue to hire in the region, and West Coast giants like Uber and Lyft are expanding their…

“It reduces the amount of time it takes an officer to do a police report by a factor of 10. So you can take a police report down from an hour to 10 minutes,” Kutcher said. “That’s an additional 50 minutes a day that the officer can be on the beat and on the streets actually doing the job they like doing.”

Cops in the cloud from CNBC. Scott Crouch, Mark43 Co-Founder & CEO, discusses his company that helps get cloud computing tech into police departments for better law enforcement.

Who gets: Mark43, a software maker that uses cloud-based records management and analysis tools for patrol officers. The technology enables detectives to review traffic diagrams, as well as collaborate, attach uploaded files, and control access to cases. Amount raised: $27 million in Series B. Mark43’s $10.8 million Series A round was announced last August. Who invests:…

…Mark43 is emblematic both of what a government tech startup can do and the rising interest from traditional venture capitalist firms.

Mark43, Gen. Petraeus said, “can accommodate the input of increasing types of data as the world of policing continues to evolve.”