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Designing a fingerprint-access 9mm pistol from the ground up.
Biofire Technologies is a startup building the next generation of firearms. By incorporating advanced biometric safety technology into a handgun, founder Kai Kloepfer hopes to help save thousands of lives a year and disrupt an industry that has lost its drive to innovate.
Kai has been working for four years to help increase awareness about smart guns, and present them as a viable option. His work has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times Sunday Edition, CBS Evening News, and Vice. Kai was also selected as a 2017 Forbes 30 under 30 in Consumer Tech for his work with Biofire.
Nobody has made the gun world’s Tesla, at least not yet. For the mindset that requires, [Kai] might just be the man for the job.
— Geoffrey Fowler, Wall Street Journal
Kai’s work started with a high school science fair project, which went on to become the top engineering project by an American student at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Kai’s biometric technology placed him in a group of the top 34 out of seven million high school students around the globe. He won a $50,000 grant from the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation to refine the technology and has since received additional grants, donations, and private investment. Kai is currently raising a seed round for Biofire.