Flock Safety adds Alex Clayton to its Board along with raising $47m Series C funding led by Meritech Capital

– USA, GA –  Flock Safety, a public safety-as-a-service company that builds ethically-designed crime-solving technology, today announced a $47 million Series C funding round led by Meritech Capital. bringing the total raised to date to over $80 million.

Concurrent with the financing, general partner Alex Clayton will join the Flock Safety board alongside Ilya Sukhar of Matrix Partners.

New investors include Julia and Kevin Hartz, co-founders of Eventbrite, and Zac Bookman of OpenGov, and previous investors Initialized Capital, Axon, Bedrock Capital, Matrix Partners, Founders Fund, and Y-Combinator also participated.

Flock Safety has crime-solving technology deployed with neighborhoods, small businesses, and law enforcement in over 1,000 cities across the US and provides the evidence for police to solve hundreds of crimes every hour, including a recent kidnapping of a one-year-old boy.

All Flock Safety products and services are built with privacy-first policies like, by default, automatically deleting the footage every 30 days and never sharing with third parties or selling the data. All footage is encrypted and securely stored in the cloud. The cameras are not used for traffic enforcement, nor immigration enforcement, and there is no facial recognition technology. Flock Safety technology adheres to state and local laws on data retention and user access.

Flock Safety’s first product was a license plate reading camera built specifically for neighborhoods. The technology company has since expanded the suite of products to include better ways to collect objective evidence, gain insights from that evidence, and send that evidence to the right detective at the right time. The Wing integration, launched in early October, is one such product that transforms hours of IP camera video footage into searchable evidence, letting a detective find a suspect vehicle by make, model, color, or unique features like roof rack, trailer hitch, tinted windows, and more.

“Crime is an incredibly hard problem to solve,” said founder and CEO, Garrett Langley. “Since nearly 70% of crime happens with a vehicle, machine learning and computer vision can capture objective evidence, like vehicle details, to help communities give a detective the lead needed to solve crime. We plan to use this capital to hire the smartest and most ethically-conscious people to help us achieve our mission of eliminating crime. Across engineering, sales, and customer-focused roles, the company will at least double in size next year.”

About Flock Safety

Flock Safety is a public safety-as-a-service company for neighborhoods, law enforcement, and cities that want the whole community to work together in building a safer future. When communities decide how they want to live, they choose to partner with their local law enforcement in delivering better objective evidence, real results, and privacy-first technology. Flock Safety serves 1000 cities in 38 states and helps police solve dozens of crimes daily.

For more information: https://www.flocksafety.com/

About Meritech Capital Partners

Meritech Capital Partners is a leading provider of late-stage venture capital to category-defining private technology companies and has been one of the top-performing venture firms of the past two decades. The firm was founded in 1999 and has cumulatively managed almost $4 billion in total capital. Past and present investments include Alteryx, Anaplan, Braze, Coupa, Datadog, Facebook, Looker, MuleSoft, NetSuite, Outreach, Proofpoint, Roblox, Salesforce, Segment, Snowflake, Tableau, and UiPath.

For more information: https://www.meritechcapital.com/