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2023. Cloud camera security startup Solink raises $60M



In a universe teeming with peculiarities and the occasional bureaucratic anomaly, Solink has unfurled its sails and successfully captured a rather impressive $60 million in funding—a sum that might just be enough to buy a moderately-sized moon or perhaps fund a search for the universe’s best cup of tea. Since its bold foray into the realm of cloud video security back in the far-flung year of 2016, Solink has been at the forefront of innovation, enhancing video feeds through the cunning integration of other systems—like point-of-sale devices—turning mundane footage into a veritable treasure trove of data insights. Fast-forward to today, and their platform has evolved into a veritable Swiss Army knife for security monitoring, equipped with advanced features like motion detection across a fleet of cameras and effortless navigation between views, allowing even the most geographically challenged to oversee their domains without needing a map. Particularly in bustling sectors such as restaurants and clothing retail, Solink boasts the capability to tag interactions between staff and customers, as if they were characters in a grand intergalactic play, while also keeping a watchful eye on staff transactions for speed, size, and any hints of unusual activity—like the mysterious appearance of an unexpectedly large number of customers in the kitchen. The pièce de résistance of their offering is undoubtedly the AI-powered threat identification system, a clever contraption that prides itself on recognizing potential risks such as unauthorized access attempts and break-ins, all while perhaps daydreaming about more trivial pursuits, like why the universe seems so intent on baffling us at every turn.


2021. Physical security startup HiveWatch lands $20M



In a corner of the universe teeming with mysteries far greater than a startup’s Series A funding, HiveWatch has set its sights on a particular challenge: the rather Earth-bound pursuit of making corporate security cleverer, quicker, and just a tad more aware. Armed with a fresh $20 million infusion, HiveWatch has devised a way for companies to nudge their physical security measures into the digital age. Through what they charmingly call "multi-sensor fusion" (the knack of gathering a delightful array of data from multiple sensors) and with the assistance of machine learning, HiveWatch’s platform slurps up streams of information from every available security sensor and monitoring system a company might have. The result? Operators are presented with a coherent display of alerts, allowing them to stop merely reacting to problems and start anticipating them—almost as if they had a mild clairvoyant on payroll.

2021. Voxel raises $3M to make warehouse security cameras more safety conscious



Warehouses and distribution centers are already covered in security cameras, but unless someone is actively overseeing them, much of the footage remains unexamined. Voxel aims to change that by employing its on-site pixel-scrutinizing machine-vision robots to take a closer look, alerting managers when something isn’t up to par. The company has just secured a $3 million seed round to continue developing its technology and expanding beyond its initial group of beta customers. The company operates a hybrid system, where all the preliminary analysis and computer vision is performed by incorporating an on-site computer. If a safety incident is detected, it is uploaded and made available on the SaaS online dashboard.


2020. Cisco acquires Modcam to make Meraki smart camera smarter



In a galaxy not so far away—actually, in the bewildering cosmos of corporate technology—Cisco, the cosmic overlord of networking, has extended its many-tentacled reach and scooped up a plucky little Swedish startup called Modcam. This fresh acquisition has been promptly assimilated into Cisco’s Meraki smart camera portfolio, a move intended to sprinkle some of Modcam's particularly clever computer vision wizardry onto Cisco's already quite clever cameras. Now, Cisco's Meraki cameras were already rather proud of their motion detection and single-camera machine learning abilities. But Modcam has arrived with the thrillingly futuristic promise of enabling the whole lot of cameras to think together, effectively allowing them to become a collective, infinitely more capable hive mind, making them cleverer than ever before—possibly even cleverer than a room full of philosophers, although probably less prone to existential musings.


2020. Enterprise video security service Verkada raises $80M



Verkada, which leverages machine vision and cloud technology for commercial video security, has just secured an $80 million Series C at an impressive $1.6 billion post-money valuation. This funding raises Verkada's total to $139 million, enabling it to offer dome cameras, fisheye lenses, footage viewing stations and the software to oversee everything from any location. Verkada also plans to introduce two-factor authentication for doors with its new access control system, which is currently in beta testing ahead of a Spring release. Instead of relying solely on a potentially compromised key fob or badge to unlock your office entryway, it might also require you to look into a Verkada camera to verify your face against your permissions. With 2,500 clients, including 25 Fortune 500 companies, already using Verkada, it’s worth noting that Verkada co-founder Hans Robertson previously co-founded IT startup Meraki and sold it to Cisco for $1.2 billion.


2019. Microsoft unveiled Kinect for enterprise


In 2015, Microsoft unexpectedly discontinued Kinect - the 3D camera for the XBOX game console. Apparently the company decided that people had already played enough with this interesting toy. But now they've got a new idea: why not let businesses play with it too. And they released Azure Kinect. This is still the same 3D camera (for $ 399) connected with the cloud platform for creating and running various business applications. It is easier to process videos from Kinect than from a normal camera. For example, there is a toolkit that creates a model of space and people moving in this space. Thus, Kinect can be used to monitor the work quality of new employees, automatic surveillance in retail store, tracking patients in hospital, etc.


2018. Cisco Meraki Introduces MV12 Cloud-Managed Security Cameras



Cisco has flown relatively under the radar over the past several years in the physical security sector, but it is aiming to reassert its presence with the launch of its MV22 and MV72 cameras, as well as its new MV Sense analytics tool. The MV series of solutions come from the Meraki business unit, which was acquired by Cisco in 2012. The new cloud surveillance system essentially removes all of the infrastructure typically associated with an enterprise video setup. Everything is controlled through a single web interface known as the dashboard. There are no servers of any type for our products; there are no virtual machines or software packages. Everything is managed from our cloud infrastructure, which we operate and maintain for all of our clients as a service.


2012. Cisco acquires wi-fi security startup Meraki for $1.2B



Cisco has acquired cloud infrastructure startup Meraki for $1.2 billion. Meraki delivers mid to large-size companies and organizations with on-site mesh Wi-Fi networking and security devices, along with the software to manage them. The technology simplifies and makes it cost-effective to operate a robust cloud network without a cumbersome IT department. It’s also designed to assist businesses in adapting as their employees increasingly access corporate networks from smartphones and tablets. Once the acquisition is finalized, Meraki will explore expanding Cisco’s scale-centric enterprise offerings, but for now, it will continue focusing on the mid-market and convenience.