UK VSaaS Startup Ocucon

By: Sean Patton, Published on Jul 03, 2018

Decreasing exposure to fraudulent slip-and-fall insurance claims and lawsuits is one of the oldest selling points of video surveillance for retail. Providing video evidence of an incident that happened 4-6 months prior is a challenge for traditional NVR-based solutions.

VSaaS systems, with no-limit cloud-based storage, offer a solution to that challenge.

In this note we profile Ocucon, a UK-based VSaaS startup, who is selling the ability to "See Everything Know Everything", and actively marketing the retail vertical, based on a conversation with the CTO, examining:

  • Company Overview
  • Platform Overview
  • Developed for Retail
  • Face Redaction / GDPR Impact
  • Bundled Internet
  • Pricing
  • Competitors
  • Channel Partners
  • Challenges to US Expansion
  • Growth Plan
  • Outlook

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Company ********

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Platform ********

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Developed *** ******

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Service ******* **** ********

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Pricing **** **** *******

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Channel ********

****** ** **** ** the ** ******* * small ***** ** ******* partners.

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Challenges ** ********* ** *** **

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Aggressive ****** *******

****** **** **** **** aggressive ******* *** ****** over *** **** * years *** *** ******** on ********* ** ****** security *********** *** ******* on-premise ****** ** ***** software. *** ** *** main ****** **** **** was ********* *** ***** success *** *** ************ of **** ***** ******* from ******. **** ****** the ******* ********** ******* from ****** ** ******** for * **** *****.

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Comments (3)

Undisclosed #1

07/05/18 02:11am

***** *******, **** **-***** *****-***** *******, ***** * ******** ** that *********.

**** *** *** **-*****, *** **** **** ** *** ******** bandwidth, *** *********, *******?

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Sean Patton

IPVM | In reply to Undisclosed #1 | 07/05/18 01:05pm

*****'* ** ********* ** ********* **** ****** ** ****** ********* or *********, ***** *** ***** *****-***** (******, ***, *****, ***..) storage ********.

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Sean Patton

IPVM | In reply to Undisclosed #1 | 07/05/18 01:13pm

*** *** ****** ******** ** ******'* ******** ** *** ***** storage *********?

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