Best Security & Surveillance Technology Companies in Bavaria, Germany
The 48 best Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Bavaria, Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Hensoldt.
Our analysis of 50 Security & Surveillance Technology companies
$4.8b in tracked funding; 91% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Bavaria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hensoldt Developer of multi-domain defence systems, products, and related lifecycle services 89Fin. health top 12%Product top 14%Funding top 17%Market top 21% All 12 signals ▾Fin. healthtop 12% Producttop 14% Fundingtop 17% Markettop 21% Innovationtop 25% Growthtop 33% Newstop 36% Partnerstop 38% Techtop 43% Globaltop 44% Moatbottom 45% Talentbottom 40% Fin. health: Revenue ~$1.5B (FY2021) · Net margin 253.8% Product: 8 distinct product lines · Company stage: Public rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 89/100 | $706M | 32 mo ago | Public | Oliver Dörre Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Management Board | 2017 | Apple iCloud MailNode.jsSvelteKit+10 | — | 1 partnership · 1 expansion |
| 2 | Kinexon Provider of real-time location systems for industrial automation and operations 50Moat top 31%Funding top 35%Product top 36%Tech top 38% All 11 signals ▾Moattop 31% Fundingtop 35% Producttop 36% Techtop 38% Talenttop 38% Growthtop 45% Marketbottom 44% Globalbottom 44% Innovationbottom 43% Patentsbottom 37% Newsbottom 22% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · IP moat: 9 patents Funding: Raised $130M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 6 yrs (0.3/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100 | $130M | 51 mo ago | Series A | Alexander Huettenbrink Co-Founder & Co-CEO | 2012 | Webflow EcommerceCart FunctionalityWebflow+23 | 9 patents Real-time sports puck tracking and orientation using embedded electronics and radio positioning. | — |
| 3 | Hawk Provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering and fraud prevention technology solutions 57Funding top 31%Growth top 35%Talent top 38%Moat top 41% All 10 signals ▾Fundingtop 31% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Moattop 41% AItop 45% Techtop 49% Patentstop 49% Innovationbottom 48% Marketbottom 40% Globalbottom 39% Funding: Raised $27.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 7 yrs (0.4/yr) Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $27M | 16 mo ago | Series C | Tobias Schweiger Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | DrupalApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+19 | 4 patents Financial transaction monitoring and explainable AI anomaly detection for fintech compliance. | 2 partnerships · 1 award |
| 4 | fraud0 Cloud based ad fraud detection software | $7M | 35 mo ago | Series A | Tilman Pfeiffer Co-Founder & CEO | 2020 | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | — | — |
| 5 | Takwak Provides outdoor navigation system and communication technology | $4M | 198 mo ago | Series A | Ramin Mirbaha Founder | 2009 | — | 8 patents Mobile group communication and audio roaming services for ad‑hoc mobile device networks | — |
| 6 | Dallmeier Provider of smart security cameras and video analytics systems | $2M | 46 mo ago | Funding Raised | Dieter Dallmeier Founder | 1984 | TYPO3 CMSApple iCloud MailPHP+9 | — | 2 job openings · 1 launch · 1 award |
| 7 | LinkCloud Provider of cloud-based security cameras for video surveillance | $100K | 195 mo ago | Deadpooled | Toni Wagner Founder & CEO | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Isarsoft Provider of video analytics systems | $26K | 50 mo ago | Funding Raised | Oskar Haller Co-Founder | 2018 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowGSAP+14 | — | 1 job opening · 1 expansion |
Top 11 Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Bavaria
#1
Series C · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2018 · 36 employees$27Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering and fraud prevention technology solutions. The company offers a unified platform designed for financial institutions and regulated entities. It helps streamline programs, reduce false positives, and detect risks. The platform includes transaction monitoring, customer risk rating, and screening capabilities.
- Apr 2025Series C$56M
- Jun 2024Series B—
- Jan 2023Series B$17M
- Jun 2021Series A$10M
#2
Public · Taufkirchen, Bavaria · founded 2017 · 6316 employees$705.8Mraised▾
Developer of multi-domain defence systems, products, and related lifecycle services. The company provides manufacture-independent system integration for complex systems across air, land, sea, cyber, and space domains. It develops software-driven products in radar, electromagnetic warfare, avionics, and optronics. The company also offers services for product lifecycles, including training and simulation tools.
- Dec 2023Grant (prize money)$1M
- Mar 2023Grant (prize money)$1.7M
- Dec 2022Grant (prize money)$1.9M
- May 2022Grant (prize money)$1.9M
#3
Series A · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2012 · 66 employees$130Mraised▾
Provider of real-time location systems for industrial automation and operations. The company offers solutions for order tracking, asset management, and autonomous mobile robot fleet management. Assembly line control products are available to accelerate production with increased quality. The operating system integrates location data from various technologies.
- Apr 2022Series A$130M
- Nov 2020Venture Debt$17.7M
- Seed—
#4
Series A · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2020$6.5Mraised▾
Cloud based ad fraud detection software. It provides an analytical dashboard that includes insights for decision making. It offers a bot detection tool to intercept bots in real time. The platform analyzes the requests, data points, and behavioural patterns to provide information about traffic. The features of the product include prevention of click fraud, impression fraud, retargeting fraud, and affiliate fraud, google analytics exporting and importing, campaign score comparison, campaign performance optimization, and analytics, social media blacklisting, and more.
- Aug 2023Series A$6.5M
#5
Funding Raised · Regensburg, Bavaria · founded 1984 · 400 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Provider of smart security cameras and video analytics systems. The company offers IR cameras, PTZ dome cameras, dome cameras, box cameras, video analytics and AI systems, intelligent video analysis, software, and video management systems. It can be used in stadiums, casinos, airports, ports, many industrial and commercial users.
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$347.1K
- Jul 2022Grant (prize money)$1.4M
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$500.6K
#6
Series A · Dachau, Bavaria · founded 2009$3.6Mraised▾
Takwak provides technology solutions for outdoor navigation systems and communication applications. It claims that its technology provides robust, sensitive to water and dust multifunction (IP57) which can find application in hostile environments and in rough handling. This enables both outdoor experiences and reliable use in tough working conditions. Its solution finds applications with sales representatives, craftsmen or service, and others as it enables the corporate headquarters to remain in contact, and directly access data.
- Jan 2010Series A$3.6M
#7
Funding Raised · Garching, Bavaria · founded 2018 · 2 employees$26.3Kraised▾
Isarsoft is a provider of video analytics systems. It provides people counting, crowd counting, and traffic analytics. It also provides applications for data centers and managed cloud systems. It can be used in public transportation, traffic and city planning, airports, fairs, shopping and outlet centers, arenas and events, retail, banking, and petrol stations.
- 2022Grant (prize money)—
- May 2022Grant (prize money)$26.3K
- 2020Grant (prize money)—
#8
Deadpooled · Wurzburg, Bavaria · founded 2010$100Kraised▾
Provider of cloud-based security cameras for video surveillance
- May 2010Seed$100K
#9
Acquired · Puchheim, Bavaria · founded 1988 · 80 employees—raised▾
Provider of RFID readers, mobile credentials, software, and related accessories. The company offers solutions for user authentication and access control across various industries. Its hardware includes a range of readers designed for compatibility and flexible integration. Software offerings include development tools. The company also provides services such as training and technical support.
- Apr 2021Conventional Debt—
#10
Funding Raised · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2008—raised▾
Provider of health monitoring and emergency alarm system for smartwatches. The smartwatch sensor is used to detect physiological signals like body movements, heart rate, and temperature. The system is capable of detecting falls, heart-related issues etc and raises an alert message as soon as an emergency situation is detected. The companion app can be used to track the location of the user and configure alarms and alerts.
- Jun 2017Grant (prize money)—
#11
Seed · Nuremberg, Bavaria · founded 2013 · 14 employees—raised▾
Favendo provides location-based services with analytical insights. It collects the location data through a sensor based infrastructure, beacon, or an application. Its OS allows the user to interrelate the online data to the self-collected data. The solution can be used to design effective marketing strategies and optimize the business using algorithms. It provides its solution for multiple industries including retail, transportation, health, tourism, and facility management. Its customers include Brose, ECE, DB, Hammerson, etc. and has partnered with multiple companies such as Accenture, Ruckus, Philips, etc.
- Jan 2016Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Security & Surveillance Technology coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Cybersecurity is moving in Germany
A read on the academic research around Cybersecurity — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 423 Germany-affiliated papers.
- Technische Universität Berlin20
- Siemens20
- Technical University of Munich15
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg14
- German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence13
- Protocol (science)3→8
- Set (abstract data type)1→6
- Anomaly detection3→8
- Malware1→6
- Identification (biology)2→5
- Malware2→6
- Denial-of-service attack3→6
- Security service2→4
- Computer network4→8
- Anomaly detection1→4
- Network packet3→4
Where cybersecurity is researched across Germany
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing cybersecurity patents in Germany
Germany cybersecurity patent filing is accelerating — 22,130 filings from 6,617 assignees (2016–2025), led by Siemens, Robert Bosch, SAP SE; annual filings 1408→2619.
- Siemens5704
- Robert Bosch2591
- SAP SE1548
- Infineon Technologies1448
- Bundesdruckerei1334
- Giesecke & Devrient1089
- Deutsche Telekom787
- SAP598
Common questions
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