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Axon is a public company with a market capitalization of nearly $50 billion.
Axon's cloud platform, evidence.com, is believed to host more video content by volume than YouTube.
Approximately one million police officers worldwide use Axon body cameras, each uploading about two hours of video daily.
Axon's AI product, DraftOne, reduces the time police officers spend on bureaucratic tasks like report writing by approximately 50%.
Axon's first external capital raise was its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on May 8, 2001, having not taken any venture capital funding prior.
The 2014 events in Ferguson, Missouri, were a seminal moment that significantly accelerated the adoption of Axon's body cameras.
Around 2005, Axon (then Taser) experienced a significant short-seller attack that nearly put the company out of business.
During a short-seller attack on Axon, a mole was hired into the company to leak non-public information to the short sellers.
Axon has a new Taser technology, scheduled for field trials within the next year, that is designed to be effective at penetrating heavy clothing.
Axon will be testing its new heavy-clothing-penetrating Taser dart technology with police in Norway, including in cities north of the Arctic Circle, as a potential primary defensive weapon.
Axon plans to re-enter the consumer market with a new Taser product in 2026.
Axon acquired the startup FUSIS after FUSIS successfully deployed its mapping and sensor feed platform to several hundred agencies in the same timeframe that Axon only secured two customers for its own dispatch product.