Verkada
Funding History
| Series E · 02/2025 | $8.62 |
|---|---|
| Series F · 12/2025 | $10.76 |
About
Verkada is a physical security company founded in 2016 by Filip Kaliszan, Benjamin Bercovitz, James Ren, and Hans Robertson, several of whom previously built the cloud-managed networking company Cisco Meraki. Verkada's platform unifies security cameras, access control, alarms, environmental sensors, and intercoms under a single cloud-based dashboard.
- CEO
- Filip Kaliszan
- Employees
- ~1,700 (estimated)
- Headquarters
- San Mateo, California
- Founded
- 2016
- Website
- Verkada.com
Overview
Verkada is a San Mateo, California-based physical security company that builds cloud-managed security cameras, access control, alarms, environmental sensors, and intercoms on a single unified platform. Founded in 2016 by a team with roots in Cisco Meraki and the student startup CourseRank, the company has grown from a single security-camera product into six hardware lines connected by one cloud dashboard.
As of late 2025, Verkada served more than 30,000 organizations with over 2 million devices deployed across 171 countries, and the company has increasingly positioned itself as an "applied AI" business, using machine learning for features like people and vehicle search across camera footage. In 2026 it began integrating NVIDIA's Cosmos world foundation models to improve that search accuracy as part of a technology partnership and equity investment from NVIDIA.
The company surpassed $1 billion in annualized bookings in December 2025 and was valued at $5.8 billion in a round led by CapitalG, Alphabet's growth-equity arm, the same month. As of September 2026 Verkada remains privately held; reporting indicates it has held early talks with banks about a possible future IPO, but no S-1 has been filed and no timeline has been set.
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