Verkada: company research

Industry

Physical security & IoT

Headquarters

San Mateo, CA

Founded

2016

Size

2,000+ employees

Stage

Series D+

Investors

CapitalG

Website

verkada.com

(from our editorial profile)Source: verkada.com

Verkada states that it builds AI-powered physical security solutions integrated behind a single cloud-based software platform, Verkada Command, which unifies video security, access control, alarms, intercoms, air quality sensors, and visitor management. The company describes itself as an early pioneer of cloud-based physical security and says it is now leveraging AI to turn passive monitoring into intelligent, real-time response. It reports that more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 171 countries.

On December 3, 2025, Verkada announced that Alphabet's independent growth fund, CapitalG, is leading an investment that values the company at $5.8 billion, a $1.3 billion increase from its Series E earlier in the year. The company said the investment will accelerate its development of AI capabilities and that it has surpassed $1 billion in annualized bookings. Over the prior year it introduced AI-Powered Deterrence, Operator View, and an AI-Powered Unified Timeline, among more than 60 new features.

Verkada states that its founders are builders and that all of them are trained engineers, and that they love creating new products to solve big problems. The company describes its origin in the summer of 2016, when two founders experienced the challenges of the enterprise video security products available at the time, which it says were expensive, insecure, and clunky. It says it was founded in 2016 with just four employees and has since scaled to more than 2,200 employees.

Verkada states that its founders set out to address the problems they saw with existing hardware-based enterprise video security systems, which it describes as costing a lot of money and being insecure and clunky, while the market lagged behind consumer cameras with cloud-based software. The company says its goal became to make organizations of any size safer using innovative technology. It frames its current direction as moving the industry toward an agentic future where AI-powered security improves safety and simplifies operations.

Verkada positions itself as a leader in cloud physical security, contrasting its integrated, AI-powered platform with the hardware-based enterprise video security products that existed when it was founded, which it says were expensive, insecure, and clunky. It states that it started as an early pioneer of cloud-based physical security and is now paving the way for a more proactive future by using AI to turn passive monitoring into intelligent, real-time response. The company says its platform is used by more than 30,000 organizations.

• Filip KaliszanCEO & Co-founder
• Hans RobertsonChairman & Co-founder
• Martin HuntChief Technology Officer
• Kameron RezaiChief Financial Officer
• Eric SalavaChief Revenue Officer
• Idan KorenChief Marketing Officer
• Chris StoriChief Information Officer

• Announcing our $5.8B Valuation

  verkada.com, 2025-12-03