Samsung Next and GreatPoint Ventures supplied series A capital for emergency response software provider RapidDeploy, which recently moved from South Africa to the US.

US-based emergency response software developer RapidDeploy has received $12m in series A funding from investors including Samsung Next, a corporate venturing vehicle for consumer electronics supplier Samsung.

Samsung was joined by venture capital firm GreatPoint Ventures, and GreatPoint managing partner Ray Lane will join RapidDeploy’s board of directors.

Founded in 2014, RapidDeploy is working on a cloud-hosted software platform called Cloud Aided Dispatch that will exploit artificial intelligence to help public safety officials efficiently allocate emergency services, through tools such…