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The AI-powered physical security platform protecting 30,000+ organizations
HQ: San Mateo, CA, United States | Founded: 2016 | Employees: ~2,500 (2026, est.) | Stage: Late Stage VC ($5.8B valuation) | Website: https://www.verkada.com
Verkada was founded in 2016 in San Mateo, California, by Filip Kaliszan (CEO, previously co-founder of social analytics startup Addepar-scale ventures and an early engineer), James Ren, and Benjamin Bercovitz. The founding insight: physical security infrastructure — cameras, access control, alarms — was stuck in the 1990s, with fragmented hardware, local-only storage, and clunky software. Verkada's answer was a unified, cloud-native platform: every camera and sensor is a networked device streaming to the cloud, managed from a single web dashboard, with AI built in from day one.\n\nThe company scaled with remarkable velocity, crossing $1 billion in annualized bookings and 30,000+ customers across 100+ countries — from schools and retailers to Fortune 500 enterprises and major public institu
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