Verkada has announced a $200 million Series E funding round. The round was led by General Catalyst, with significant investment from Eclipse and additional participation from new and existing investors. Since its founding in 2016, Verkada has raised more than $700 million in funding, and the latest round values the company at $4.5 billion. Designed with simplicity in mind, Verkada’s six product lines — video security cameras, door-based access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace, and intercoms — provide unparalleled visibility through a natively integrated cloud-based software platform. Machine learning and applied computer vision have been […]

      Yunchao Gong, VP of Engineering, Cameras and Jake Leichtling, Director of Product Management, Access Control at Verkada have shared their thoughts on the developments we might expect to see during 2025, in the fields of AI in Security, Cameras, and Access Control. Firstly Yunchao Gong makes his predictions on: AI in security Large language and vision models reduce investigation times and unlock deeper insights. AI is already transforming the ways that security teams search for people, vehicles, […]

Verkada has released its so-called “reimagined” Alarm solution that, unlike traditional systems, offers to provide more informed alarm response, minimises false alarms, and gives administrators more visibility and control across their sites. In addition to a new suite of hardware that Verkada redesigned from the ground up, Verkada’s new Alarms solution comes with a new software experience that aims to empower large and distributed organisations to easily set arming and disarming schedules; more simply manage key codes and enable disarming […]