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Making Cities Awesome: Peregrine’s Nick Noone & Ben Rudolph

2026-09-01 · 5 company · 5 thematic
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nick noone

Co-founder of Peregrine; previously ran Palantir's SOCOM unit deploying to high-stakes intelligence operations in the Middle East.

ben rudolph

Co-founder of Peregrine; previously worked at UNHCR and Demagi building last-mile healthcare and humanitarian technology solutions in underresourced regions.

episode shorts · 4

100 water rescues in one month. Nobody knew why. Peregrine foun…

Why Peregrine's founders left national security to work on citi…

Every competitor collects more data. They collect none. | Nick…

300GB of evidence. One agent. One hour. | Ben Rudolph, Peregrine

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