Best Security & Surveillance Technology Companies in Berlin, Germany
The 43 best Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Berlin, Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Fraugster.
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 Berlin
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Stage | Employees | Founder | App-install YoY | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | App-Sec-Network Personal safety app | — | — | Unfunded | — | Andreas Muchow CEO | — | — | — |
| 2 | Asservato Provider of smart lockers on-demand | — | — | Unfunded | — | Christian Ernst Frenko Managing Director | — | — | — |
| 3 | Birdhome Automation Video doorbell for homes | — | — | Acquired | 204 | — | +17% | — | 1 launch |
| 4 | e*message e*Message specializes in secure mobile communications solutions. | — | — | Private | 17 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Easy Locker Electronic locker solution for last-mile delivery | — | — | Deadpooled | — | Paul Nitsche Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 6 | GSMK Provider of mobile device security, network security, and encryption software | — | — | Unfunded | — | Bjorn Rupp Founder & CEO & MD | — | — | — |
| 7 | HandHelp Provider of an app-based emergency notification platform | — | — | Unfunded | — | Andreas Muchow Managing Director | — | — | — |
| 8 | hoard Hoard provides check in guests remotely by depositing your keys in trusted local stores: | — | — | Acquired | 3 | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Berlin
#1
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2015 · 30 employees$10.8Mraised▾
Developer of visual search technology for product and spare part identification. The technology facilitates identification using images, codes, or CAD files. It offers tools for integration into websites and applications. The platform provides capabilities to manage and monitor search solutions.
- Mar 2023Series A$10.8M
- Sep 2021Grant (prize money)$2.4M
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$60.6K
- Oct 2020Seed—
#2
Series B · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2012 · 52 employees$15.2Mraised▾
Developer of RFID-based automatic door openers. It provides users with a platform that develops an internet-connected or electro-mechanically engineered lock system for access control. It also provides secure hands-free access for apartment buildings that works similarly to keyless remote systems from cars.
- Apr 2020Series B$10.9M
- Mar 2015Series A$4.4M
- Nov 2014Grant (prize money)$1.2M
- 2014Seed—
#3
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2017 · 22 employees$2.4Mraised▾
HUM Systems is a Berlin-based IoT startup that designs and develops automation solutions for residential buildings. Its chief offering Livy Protect is a two-part push-fit system consisting of a smoke alarm and smart ring which is a multi-sensor connected device powered by rechargeable batteries. Claims that the smoke alarm is a photoelectric detector with 10-year battery life. In addition, the company provides a platform featuring AI, big data, targeting, and location-based services for supporting partners in digitizing their core business and giving them access to other products of the former.
- May 2022Seed$2.4M
#4
Acquired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2018 · 29 employees$6.2Mraised▾
Developer of open-source multimodal AI for text, audio, and video. It delivers high accuracy with reduced compute for cost-effective enterprise applications. The company offers tools for summarization, search, recommendations, and data analytics. It provides an open-source SDK to create lightweight AI applications.
- Sep 2021Series A$6.2M
- Jan 2020Seed—
#5
Acquired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2013 · 149 employees$18.5Mraised▾
SaaS-based provider of electronic logbook and fleet management solutions. The platform provides an OBD-2-based device for the electronic logging of trip data for fleets of small and medium businesses. The device can be plugged into the diagnostic port of the vehicle to log details such as mileage and trip information required for tax and compliance.
- Dec 2018Series B$13M
- Apr 2017Series A$5.5M
- 2015Angel—
- 2014Seed—
#6
Series B · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2014 · 55 employees$19Mraised▾
Fraugster is a payment fraud protection API plugin service provider. Its technology solution uses artificial intelligence to protect fraudulent attacks. The company's solution can be integrated with merchants website, receives customers information, and more. Its AI engine analyzes the user behavioural pattern to determine the fraudulent cases. Clients include Ingenico ePayments, Six Payments and more.
- Nov 2018Series B$14M
- Jan 2017Series A$5M
#7
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2014 · 78 employees$558.3Kraised▾
Provider of a platform to connect the electric vehicle to the cloud. It provides users with a connectivity platform that allows manufacturers to integrate connected vehicle technologies in their electric vehicles. Comodule collects all the data points from the vehicle and transfers them to the cloud. The use case for the manufacturer includes warranty management, analyzing usage data, pushing remote software updates, and communicating with the user.
- Jul 2022Grant (prize money)$26K
- Jun 2015Seed$558.3K
- 2015Seed—
- 2012Grant (prize money)$13.9K
#8
Acqui-Hired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2015 · 15 employees$12.5Mraised▾
Twenty Billion Neurons develops computer vision platform for real-time video analysis. It allows users to train and deploy deep neural network models for virtual assistants. Additionally, its offerings include neural network components that can understand spoken words and physical movements, and be used by developers to create AI applications. Its platform crowd-acting is a video-based dataset for reading dynamic hand gestures and training deep neural networks. It has applications in multiple areas such as gesture recognition, domestic robots, posture correction during workouts, elderly fall detection, and automatic detection of driver behaviors.
- Sep 2018Series A$10M
- Oct 2017Seed—
- May 2016Seed$2.5M
#9
Acqui-Hired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 1999$13.1Mraised▾
Gate5 offers mapping and navigation software for mobile devices in Europe. Their customer included companies such as Siemens, Volkswagen, and Daimler Chrysler. The company was acquired by Nokia in 2006.
- Mar 2004Series A$7.4M
- 1999Unattributed$5.7M
#10
Acquired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 1991 · 25 employees$13.6Mraised▾
nanotron provides wireless products for location-aware wireless sensor networks, real-time location systems. Its embedded location platform consists of chips, modules, and software that enable precise real-time positioning and concurrent wireless communication. It has 3 products for the embedded location swarm, RTLS, transceiver. swarm products are mostly used for collaborative location, whereas RTLS products primarily provide solutions in fixed locations. The transceiver offers different levels of integration and serves as a basic key component of nanotron's other products.
- Jul 2007Series C$13.6M
#11
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2014 · 25 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Provider of cloud and AI-powered smart security cameras. It offers a smart device equipped with a camera and sensors to detect occupancy and intrusion. The device shuts itself down in presence of homeowners, and it activates itself in absence of owners to discourage intrusion by playing sounds. Users can remotely monitor video feeds online. It comprises an optional 3G sim add on to continue working even in case of an outage.
- Oct 2017Series A$4M
- Feb 2016Seed$1M
- May 2015Seed$181.4K
#12
Deadpooled · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2013 · 2 employees$623.2Kraised▾
Lockboxsystem provides an alternative to the doorstep delivery by providng the delivered materials in a lockbox. When the users register on the website, the company installs a lockbox anchor on their door. Whenver the delivery is made, the company provides the deliry items in the lockbox and attaches the lockbox to the anchor. The user can retrieve the box when they are home, and the box is returned. The company charges a delivery charge per delivery made. However, if the users order from their partnered stores, no delivery charge is required. The company claims the lockbox is safe for food and drinks delivery as well. The deliveries are insured.
- Apr 2016Seed—
- Nov 2014Seed$623.2K
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What Berlin researches in cybersecurity
- Technische Universität Berlin20
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin2
- Freie Universität Berlin1
- Bard College Berlin1
- Oberlin College1
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