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HiveWatch 2025 Wrapped: Our Year in Physical Security

Posted on December 23, 2025 by - Company News, Featured

You know that satisfying moment when Spotify tells you exactly how many minutes you spent listening to the same three songs on repeat? Consider this our version of that.

Our Top Number: $65 Million

We closed a $33 million Series B funding round in September, led by Anthos Capital. Total funding raised? More than $65 million.

Our CEO, Ryan Schonfeld, is calling this “Phase 2: Scale.” Translation: we’re hiring across engineering, product, customer success, marketing, and sales in El Segundo. Things are about to get loud.

Most Played Feature: The AI Operator

If 2025 had a top track, it was the AI Operator.

Powered by Anthropic, this is the feature that handles alarm triage at scale so human operators can stop drowning in false positives. It launched to customers early this year and the response was… a lot.

90%+ of new customer contracts now include it.

One CSO from a $300 billion tech company said their team is shifting “from alarm processors to strategic analysts.” That’s the energy we’re going for.

Your Listening Personality: Security That Actually Scales

Remember when we kept saying security doesn’t scale? We meant it. And then we fixed it.

The AI Operator processes high volumes of initial alarms so your team focuses on real threats. Not noise. Not busywork. Actual security incidents that need human judgment.

New Releases This Year

We dropped some features based on what you actually asked for.

QuickReport: Employees report incidents from their phones via QR code. Photos, video, descriptions, and anonymous options. Operators filter by location, time, and type. Simple.

Guard Post Orders: Site-specific instructions now live directly in the Guard Mobile App. Field teams responding to incidents have what they need without digging for it.

Dashboard Upgrades: More customization, better filtering, streamlined workflows. The HiveWatch® GSOC OS now bends to how your team actually works.

The Stat That Still Gets Us

95% of Americans have interacted with a product, service, or brand protected by HiveWatch.

We don’t have a clever way to say this. That’s just wild. And we don’t take it lightly.

Your 2026 Preview

More AI Operator capabilities. More platform updates. And a continued push toward what we’re calling the “GSOC of the future.”

Physical security is having a moment. The teams that figure out how to pair human expertise with AI-powered tools are the ones who’ll actually scale protection across their entire footprint.

That’s the playlist we’re building.

Thanks for Streaming With Us

Seriously. Thanks for being part of this year. If you want to see any of these features in action, connect with our team. We’ll walk you through all of it.

See you in 2026.

Phase 2: Scale

Posted on September 23, 2025 by - Company News

We started HiveWatch to solve the most difficult problems challenging physical security – at scale. We wanted to help big enterprises with multiple systems; bringing them all together to increase security, while reducing operational time and cost.

Since then, we have deployed HiveWatch to some of the largest companies in the world, protecting assets on every continent, and making their daily operations manageable through our accelerated incident response, and noise reduction technology.

We’re already embedded in everyday life: 95% of Americans have interacted with a product, service, or brand that is protected by HiveWatch.

Many have said that creating a manageable single pane of glass for enterprise security is already an impossible feat. We don’t think that’s enough.

The future of physical security is more than just the bridge between systems; it is truly creating the digital brain of your security program. With all of an organization’s security data in one place, our AI Operator has been able to automate massive portions of our customers’ response operations, fundamentally changing the way security teams operate. With over 90% of our new customer contracts including the AI Operator, it’s clear that the market agrees.

This is only the beginning. In the next 12 months, we are aggressively defining the “GSOC of the future” by releasing additional AI Operator capabilities that will take our platform into its next phase of growth.

Recognizing that this moment demands action, we’re excited to announce that HiveWatch has secured $33 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Anthos Capital, with participation from Harmonic Growth Partners, Across Capital, and existing investors to fuel our race toward the future. Since founding, HiveWatch has secured over $65 million in financing. We are continuing to fuel our expansion and our team in the heart of El Segundo, CA.

Together, we’re building what comes next. LFG!!

Want to learn more? Join the team. Become a customer.

HiveWatch Wins SecurityInfoWatch Readers Choice Award for Top Software

Posted on January 12, 2025 by - Company News

Leading security industry online portal announces top products after more than 1,650 security pros participate in online voting

El Segundo, Calif., Nov. 2, 2022 — HiveWatch, a physical security software company reimagining how organizations keep their people and assets safe, is pleased to announce that its HiveWatch Security Fusion Platform™ has been named a winner in the inaugural SecurityInfoWatch.com Readers’ Choice Product Awards in the Business Management Software & Solutions category.

The SecurityInfoWatch Readers’ Choice Awards recognize the most impactful products introduced in the physical security industry over the past year (June 2021 through June 2022) in 13 different categories. The program is judged and decided by the very people who use and install these products every day.

The HiveWatch Security Fusion Platform™ allows security teams to bring together data from their existing disparate security systems and provides them with an intelligent, holistic, and actionable view. This enables proactive, rather than reactive, security. HiveWatch is a cloud-based SaaS platform that works with existing security systems. It requires no additional hardware, allows users to consolidate programs and systems, and reduces false alarms.

“SecurityInfoWatch congratulates all of the award winners in the first-ever Reader’s Choice Awards,” said Steve Lasky, Editorial Director, SecurityInfoWatch.com. “These products represent the best of the best among the newest technologies that are helping to secure people and property. We were truly overwhelmed by the number of survey responses during year one and look forward to seeing even greater participation in the years to come.”

Voting was open to any SecurityInfoWatch reader (one vote per IP address) during September. In all, more than 1,650 security professionals participated in the voting.

“It’s an honor to be recognized by readers in this kind of award program, chosen by the people using our solution,” said Ryan Schonfeld, Founder & CEO, HiveWatch. “Over the last year as we’ve introduced the Security Fusion Platform™ and watched security leaders become more proactive in their responses, we’ve known that there’s a market for intelligent technology that delivers on this promise.”

The full list of winning products can be found on Security Info Watch. Learn more about HiveWatch’s Security Fusion Platform™

HiveWatch: Phase 1

Posted on January 12, 2025 by - Company News

When we started building HiveWatch in 2020, we had a vision of what the modern Physical Security Program would look like. HiveWatch has been quietly working over the last two years to understand the pains of security professionals and how to address them head on. As Head of Product, to actually see the vision of HiveWatch come to life has been incredible, not just for myself, but for the industry as a whole. Our goal at HiveWatch has been to change the way that security professionals operate on a daily basis. Quieting the noise, aggregating vital data quickly, and changing programs from reactive to proactive, these were the foundational pillars to building the future of Physical Security.  Today, I’m proud to say that Phase 1 of our vision is now a reality. Here’s what we’ve found with our current customers using HiveWatch: