01 / THE PEOPLE BEHIND FIRERESPONSE

Built by people
who know the stakes.

AI builders, patent innovators and front-line fireground leaders working to make critical information visible when command needs it most.

Meet the founders Explore FireResponse
AI & PRODUCTINTELLECTUAL PROPERTYINCIDENT COMMAND
Matt Ertosun01 Matt Ertosun
Raj Abhyanker02 Raj Abhyanker
Todd Ellis03 Todd Ellis
Mike Stahl04 Mike Stahl
02 / FOUNDING LEADERSHIP

Technology built for
the real world.

The founding team brings deep technical expertise, startup experience and intellectual property strategy to an operationally demanding mission.

Matt Ertosun
01 / CO-FOUNDER
CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Matt Ertosun, PhD

Stanford-trained AI builder bringing advanced research into high-stakes products.

Matt holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and two master's degrees from Stanford University. His background includes postdoctoral AI research at Stanford Medicine and experience developing technology for regulated healthcare.

He has built products at ZONARE Medical Systems and Vave Health, co-founded RadSupport as CTO, and previously co-founded a real-time audio AI startup in the a16z Speedrun program. At FireResponse, he leads company strategy, product development and the mission to turn complex live communications into useful decision support.

STANFORD EE PhDREGULATED AIAUDIO INTELLIGENCE
Raj Abhyanker
02 / CO-FOUNDER
CO-FOUNDER / INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGY

Raj Abhyanker

Inventor of Nextdoor-related technology, entrepreneur and patent strategist.

Raj is the inventor named on patents for Nextdoor neighborhood social-network technology and was founding CEO of an early neighborhood-network predecessor venture. He helped bring that venture through seed, Series A and Series B financing before its eventual exit to Google.

He founded Trademarkia and PatentVC and has worked across patent law, venture building and technology commercialization, including serving as outside patent counsel to NVIDIA. At FireResponse, Raj brings an inventor's perspective and experience building durable intellectual-property-backed businesses.

NEXTDOOR PATENT INVENTORPRIOR GOOGLE EXITTRADEMARKIA + PATENTVC
03 / FIREGROUND COLLABORATORS

Command insight.
From the fireground.

Real incident-command experience informs what the system should surface, how operators review it and what deserves their attention.

Todd Ellis03 / FIREFIGHTER INVENTOR
DIVISION CHIEF · MENLO PARK FIRE DEPARTMENT

Todd Ellis

A fire-service leader and co-inventor of incident-command technology, Todd brings operational expertise to the challenge of turning emergency communications into useful context for command staff.

FIELD EXPERIENCE + INCIDENT INTELLIGENCE
Mike Stahl04 / FIREFIGHTER INVENTOR
BATTALION CHIEF · MENLO PARK FIRE DEPARTMENT

Mike Stahl

A battalion chief and incident-command technology co-inventor, Mike brings the working realities of on-scene command, radio coordination and decision-making into the product's field-informed design.

FIREGROUND COMMAND + PRODUCT DESIGN
OUR SHARED PRINCIPLE

Technology informs.
People command.

FireResponse is designed around source evidence, operator review and decisions that remain with emergency-response professionals. That discipline starts with the people building it.

BUILD WITH FIRERESPONSE

Better context.
Stronger response.

We welcome conversations with fire-service teams, public-safety partners and investors who believe command needs better real-time intelligence.

Get in touch info@fireresponse.ai