Prem
Gururajan
wants
to
put
his
company’s
cameras
above
every
blackjack
table
in
the
world.
Prem
Gururajan
wants
to
put
his
company’s
cameras
above
every
blackjack
table
in
the
world.Of
course,
there
are
cameras
there
already:
casinos
have
been
using
“eye
in
the
sky”
systems
to
record
table
play
for
decades.
But
Prem’s
company,
Tangam
Gaming,
goes
a
crucial
step
further:
its
software
analyzes
data
in
real
time.
Tangam’s
system
sends
out
instant
alerts
on
errors
and
cheats,
issues
reports
on
dealer
activity,
and
calculates
player
skill
levels
and
strategies.
Prem
founded
Tangam
as
a
Waterloo
computer
engineering
undergraduate
(BASc
’03),
and
enrolled
in
the
MBET
program
to
gain
skills
to
help
his
young
company
prosper.
He’s
had
extraordinary
success
so
far,
hiring
10
software
engineers,
raising
several
million
dollars
from
angel
investors,
and
filing
several
patents
to
protect
his
technology.
A
crucial
endorsement
came
when
Tangam’s
system
was
named
best
product
at
the
World
Game
Protection
Show
in
Las
Vegas.
Prem
is
confident
that
it’s
just
the
beginning:
“We’re
the
first
company
in
the
world
that
can
do
real-time
analysis,”
he
says.
“Our
technology
can
potentially
transform
this
business.”
Graduate student, CBET