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Rimward

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Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Rimward helps solar asset managers detect intrusions using the cameras already installed across their sites. It flags camera failures and coverage gaps, and gathers video evidence from multiple cameras to help their team or monitoring provider filter out false alarms and decide when to act.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Previously Quack AI, Sourcepulse

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

F-G Fernandez

Founder

Founder and CEO of Rimward. FG co-founded Pyronear, an open-source nonprofit, helping turn a Raspberry Pi, his laptop GPU and entry-level camera into a wildfire detection network across Europe and South America. Running AI locally on affordable hardware, it serves French fire services and detected a wildfire 32 km away. A computer vision researcher by background, he led research at Mindee (YC W21), published conference papers without a PhD and was formerly a top PyTorch contributor.

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Founded 2023 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedParis, Île-de-France, France
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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