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Ambient.ai funding, valuation and investors
Computer-vision intelligence platform for enterprise physical security.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series A
$52M · 2022
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$52M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
series a · Menlo Park, California
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Andreessen Horowitz
Overview
Ambient.ai provides computer vision software that analyzes security camera feeds to detect physical threats and suspicious behaviors — gun detection, perimeter breaches, fights — without using facial recognition. Enterprise security teams use Ambient to reduce false alarms and speed response vs. legacy motion-triggered systems. The company exited stealth in 2022 with a $52M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, reporting Fortune 500 customers at launch.
Why Ambient.ai is interesting
Behavior-level threat detection without facial recognition — Fortune 500 customers at stealth exit on $52M Series A led by a16z.
Product & use cases
Ambient.ai connects to existing IP cameras and VMS systems, applying deep learning to classify security-relevant events in real time — alerting operators with context clips while avoiding biometric identification privacy concerns.
- Corporate campus gun and weapon detection on existing camera networks
- Retail and warehouse perimeter intrusion alerts with behavior context
- Security operations centers reducing nuisance alarms from raw motion analytics
Key facts
- Series A (2022): $52M led by a16z at stealth exit — TechCrunch
- Fortune 500 customers reported at launch
- Behavior detection without facial recognition
Funding history (newest first)
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Behavior-centric models without facial recognition simplify enterprise procurement in privacy-sensitive jurisdictions while still detecting high-severity events competitors miss with pixel-motion rules.
Enterprise physical security is crowded but AI threat detection is upgrading cycle. Ambient's privacy positioning (no FR) opens doors European and corporate policies block. a16z $52M Series A funds scale against well-funded camera platforms adding native AI.
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Verkada adjacent
Camera hardware + cloud VMS; Ambient software-layer on existing cameras.
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Evolvev / ZeroEyes direct
Gun detection AI on cameras; overlapping school and enterprise buyers.
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BriefCam / Avigilon incumbent
Video analytics incumbents; Ambient AI-native threat taxonomy.
Notable stories
- Ambient exited stealth with Fortune 500 logos already deployed — rare enterprise security startup with production scale at Series A announcement (TechCrunch, 2022).
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