Founder · Blue Voice

Amit Patankar

Co-founder of Blue Voice, a public safety ai company based in Boston.

Co-founderBostonPublic Safety AI
Founded
2023
Boston, United States
Raised to date
$6M
1 round on record
Latest round
Seed
$6M · August 2026
Team
11–50

About

Amit Patankar is Co-founder of Blue Voice, a public safety ai company based in Boston, founded in 2023. Blue Voice's most recent disclosed round was a funding round of $6M in August 2026.

Compiled from StartupFox records · updates as coverage is published

Company

Est. 2023
Blue Voice
Public Safety AI · Boston · 11–50 people · Active

Blue Voice builds 'Blue', a CJIS-compliant AI assistant that gives law enforcement officers immediate access to state law, municipal ordinances and their own department's policies from a phone in the field. It also handles voice-driven paperwork, e-signature, BOLOs and policy sign-off, and assesses department policies against accreditation standards. Founded in 2023 by David Lawrence, who left Harvard Law School, with Amit Patankar and Michael Gropman. Officers at 225 county agencies across 25 states use it daily.

Funding
August 2026Seed$6MSignalFire (lead), Las Olas Venture Capital
Company profile →1 round on record

Journey with Blue Voice

2 milestones
  1. 2023Founded

    David Lawrence leaves Harvard Law School to found Blue Voice with Amit Patankar, a former Google engineer, and Michael Gropman, a retired senior police officer.

  2. Dec 2025Milestone

    Yorktown Police Department becomes the first agency in New York State to adopt the platform, followed by Corning and Endicott, as the company expands beyond New England.

Also building Blue Voice

DLDavid LawrenceCo-founder · CEO→MGMichael GropmanCo-founder · Chief Business Officer→

Coverage

1 story
Funding · 1 Sept 2026 · 5 min read
Blue Voice Raises $6M to Put 15,000 Pages of Police Policy in an Officer's Pocket