Name

Ambient.ai

Legal name

Ambient AI, Inc.

Website

https://ambient.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Ambient.ai sells an AI-native, hybrid edge-cloud physical-security platform that turns existing IP cameras, VMS, and PACS infrastructure into an always-on threat-detection and investigation system for large enterprises across technology, manufacturing, education, energy, and public-sector verticals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Physical Security Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) (561621)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ), Model Serving, Inference & Deployment Platforms (APIs, Edge/On-Prem) (HDAEANAC), AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF), Identity, Access & Secrets Management for AI Systems (IAM for agents/models) (HDAAAKAJ), AI/Analytics Video Surveillance (Detection, LPR, People Counting) (HSAHACAF), Video Analytics & AI Security Solutions Integration (LPR, Facial, Behavior) (BPAKAGAK)

Keywords

• AI physical security
• Computer vision surveillance
• Threat detection software
• Access control intelligence
• Video analytics platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Redwood City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription / New Annual Recurring Revenue: Enterprise SaaS subscription model based on new Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR); FY26 new ARR doubled versus FY25 while net revenue retention reached 140%+, with the customer base tripling since the Ambient Intelligence platform launch — evidence of land-and-expand dynamics across enterprise accounts.
2. Enterprise Platform Licensing (Hybrid Edge + Cloud): Multi-product platform monetization across Ambient Foundation, Ambient Advanced Forensics, Ambient Access Intelligence, and Ambient Threat Detection modules, deployed on customer-premise edge GPU servers with a Cloud SOC console subscription layer; pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed.
3. Channel Partner Resale & Referral Fees: Indirect revenue through reseller deal registration (deal protection and partner discounting) and referral deal registration (referral fee on closed-won deals based on partner agreement).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Ambient.ai provides an Agentic Physical Security platform that applies computer-vision AI to existing enterprise camera, access-control, and sensor infrastructure to continuously perceive, reason about, and respond to threats in real time. The platform is delivered as a hybrid edge-cloud subscription on customer-premise GPU servers plus a Cloud SOC console and sold through four composable modules — Ambient Foundation (situational awareness), Ambient Advanced Forensics (open-set investigation), Ambient Access Intelligence (PACS correlation), and Ambient Threat Detection (contextual threat signatures) — alongside an AI Native VMS offering, targeted at Fortune 500 and large-enterprise security operations.

Product overview

Ambient.ai offers a single unified Agentic Physical Security platform — built on the Ambient Intelligence AI engine and its reasoning Vision-Language Model, Ambient Pulsar — that is delivered as a core platform with four composable modules: Ambient Foundation (continuous real-time situational awareness and Agentic Video Walls), Ambient Advanced Forensics (open-set natural-language investigation), Ambient Access Intelligence (PACS Correlation Engine for self-validating perimeter), and Ambient Threat Detection (150+ validated threat signatures with contextual analysis). The platform integrates with existing IP cameras, VMS (Genetec, Milestone, LenelS2, Honeywell Pro-Watch), and PACS providers without rip-and-replace, and is also positioned alongside an AI Native VMS offering.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Ambient Pulsar: Edge-optimized reasoning Vision-Language Model purpose-built for physical security, trained on over 1 million hours of enterprise video; powers the Ambient Intelligence platform.
• Ambient Foundation
• Ambient Advanced Forensics
• Ambient Access Intelligence
• Ambient Threat Detection

Products and services

• Ambient Foundation Base platform module delivering continuous, real-time situational awareness across the enterprise. Unifies cameras, access systems, and sensors through Ambient Intelligence and includes Agentic Video Walls, edge connectivity with 200+ ONVIF-compliant cameras, Cloud SOC, multi-site management, PACS Visual Previews, Semantic Search (natural-language video querying), and Ops Insights analytics. Designed for enterprise SOC operators managing 100–10,000+ cameras across multi-site campuses.
• Ambient Advanced Forensics Forensic investigation module that compresses hours or days of footage review into seconds using natural-language search, Similarity Search (find people, vehicles, objects by appearance), License Plate Recognition, and Incident Timeline creation; claimed to make investigations up to 20x faster. Targeted at enterprise security teams performing post-incident investigations across multi-site camera estates.
• Ambient Access Intelligence Agentic access-control monitoring module that uses a PACS Correlation Engine (Ambient Access Intelligence) to fuse live video with access events in real time, creating a self-validating perimeter that auto-validates Door Forced Open / Door Held Open alarms. Reports 95%+ reduction in false DFO/DHO alarms and up to $500K annual labor savings; targeted at enterprise security and facilities teams seeking to eliminate chronic PACS alarm noise.
• Ambient Threat Detection Real-time contextual threat-analysis module with the broadest threat signature library in the industry (150+ validated signatures), including perimeter breaches, tailgating, assault, brandished firearms, and loitering. The Contextual Threat Analysis Engine interprets intent rather than motion; 90% of alerts are reportedly resolved in under one minute. Designed for enterprise customers and educational institutions seeking firearm detection, perimeter breach, and active-threat response.
• Ambient Pulsar The industry's first always-on, edge-optimized reasoning Vision-Language Model purpose-built for physical security. Trained on more than one million hours of ethically sourced enterprise video and processing over 500,000 hours each day; reports frontier-model reasoning performance exceeding GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro in physical security use cases at 50x higher efficiency. Powers Ambient Foundation, Access Intelligence, Threat Detection, and Advanced Forensics. NVIDIA-accelerated; deployed on customer-premise edge GPU servers.
• Ambient Intelligence The breakthrough AI engine at the core of the Ambient.ai platform. Built on edge-optimized frontier AI, it continuously perceives, understands, and reasons about the physical world in real time through an autonomous "see → think → assess → act" loop. Comprises four foundational engines: Ambient Visual Perception Engine (frame-to-text detection/classification), Ambient Vision-Language Models (multi-modal open-set VLMs), Ambient Reasoning Models (language-conditioned comprehension), and Ambient Real-Time Stream Indexing (continuous frame ingest and tagging).
• AI Native VMS An AI-native video management system offering positioned alongside the Agentic Physical Security platform, targeted at enterprises seeking to modernize their VMS with AI-native capabilities and supported by Ambient.ai's VMS Migration Guide.

Quantifiable outcome

• 95% PACS alarm reduction across DFO/DHO events
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

AI capability5 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered flagship global channel partnership, flagship strategic / technology partner, core regional implementation partner, core vms integration partner, core pacs/vms integration partner, camera hardware integration partner and core compute/acceleration partner.

• Securitas Technologyflagship global channel partnershipChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 23 March 2026Global agreement under which Securitas Technology offers the Ambient.ai threat detection and automation platform to its global client base, accelerating the path to agentic physical security and supporting the shift from reactive to proactive security operations. Announced via PR Newswire / Newswire on 23 March 2026 and reported by Security Sales on 1 April 2026.
• Axis Communicationsflagship strategic / technology partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 March 2026Key co-sponsor of ISC West 2026 alongside Ambient.Ai; hosts the 'Ambient.ai Live! The Future of Agentic Security' event at the Axis Partner Experience Center in San Jose; co-presents the 'Intelligence with Context — Cutting Through the Noise' webinar with Axis Communications (Craig Conley) and Ambient.ai (Jody Russell).
• ISS (Integrated Security Solutions)core regional implementation partnerImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerStrategic partnership covered on ABC Puerto Rico in which ISS leverages Ambient.ai's proactive, automated AI technology and shared commitment to customer success to revolutionize security services for Puerto Rico, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
• Geneteccore vms integration partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed as a supported VMS (Genetec Security Center) for bidirectional integration with the Ambient.ai platform.
• Milestone Systemscore vms integration partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed as a supported VMS (Milestone XProtect) for bidirectional integration with the Ambient.ai platform.
• LenelS2core pacs/vms integration partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed as a supported VMS/PACS integration partner for the Ambient.ai platform.
• Honeywell (Pro-Watch)core pacs/vms integration partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed as a supported VMS/PACS integration partner (Honeywell Pro-Watch) for the Ambient.ai platform.
• Hanwhacamera hardware integration partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed as a supported camera manufacturer (alongside Axis and Avigilon) for 200+ ONVIF-compliant models.
• Avigilon (Motorola Solutions)camera hardware integration partnerTechnology or IntegrationListed as a supported camera manufacturer alongside Axis and Hanwha.
• NVIDIAcore compute/acceleration partnerTechnology or IntegrationAmbient Pulsar is described as 'NVIDIA-accelerated' on the AI Info page, reflecting use of NVIDIA GPUs for edge AI inference.

Scale indicators21 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• IronYun (Vaidio): AI video-analytics platform (Vaidio) offering a broad library of detection use cases (intrusion, loitering, vehicle, crowd, etc.) for security and operations. Emerging player with overlapping AI-analytics capabilities, typically competing at a smaller scale and a more price-sensitive segment than Ambient.ai.
• ZeroEyes: AI gun-detection platform layered onto existing camera infrastructure for active-threat response, primarily serving K–12, healthcare, and enterprise. Emerging player in a narrower use case (firearm detection) versus Ambient.ai's broader 150+ signature threat library; overlaps on gun detection and school/campus safety.

Direct peers

• Verkada: Cloud-native AI physical-security platform combining cameras, video management, access control, and AI analytics for enterprise. Closest direct competitor to Ambient.ai, with an overlapping enterprise buyer (security leaders at multi-site organizations) and a similar land-and-expand SaaS motion, though Verkada is hardware-led versus Ambient.ai's camera-agnostic edge-AI overlay.
• BriefCam: Video-content-analytics platform (now part of Motorola Solutions) that applies AI to surveillance video for object detection, search, and operational intelligence. Direct competitor in the AI-video-analytics layer for physical security, addressing similar SOC operator and investigator use cases.
• Eagle Eye Networks: Cloud-managed video surveillance and AI analytics platform purpose-built for the cloud with cyber-secure APIs. Direct peer competing for the same enterprise VMS replacement opportunity Ambient.ai targets via AI Native VMS, though Eagle Eye leans cloud-VMS rather than edge-reasoning.

Broad incumbents

• Genetec: Global provider of unified security solutions including Security Center VMS, access control (Synergis), and video analytics. Broad incumbent that Ambient.ai integrates with; competes for the same enterprise security budget and could ship native AI features that overlap with Ambient's threat-detection and access-intelligence modules.
• Axis Communications: Global leader in network cameras and an emerging provider of on-device AI analytics. Broad incumbent that Ambient.ai integrates with; could narrow the partnership by deepening its own analytics layer (e.g., ARTPEC chips with onboard AI) to compete with Pulsar.
• Avigilon (Motorola Solutions): Motorola Solutions' video-security and analytics business spanning cameras, VMS, and AI analytics. Broad incumbent competing with Ambient.ai across the enterprise security stack; has the scale, channel, and bundling power to ship comparable AI features inside its installed base.
• Milestone Systems: Open-platform IP VMS provider (XProtect) widely deployed in enterprise and government physical-security estates. Broad incumbent where Ambient.ai is an integrated analytics layer; could narrow the partnership by launching competing AI analytics inside XProtect.
• Hanwha Vision: Network-camera manufacturer with a growing portfolio of AI analytics and VMS. Broad incumbent that Ambient.ai supports via ONVIF; could ship bundled AI features on its cameras that compete head-on with Ambient.ai's edge-reasoning layer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ambientai
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ambient-ai

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors10 records

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M&A

Investments

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