Best Security & Surveillance Technology Companies in Shanghai, China
The 32 best Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Shanghai, China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Black Sesame Technologies.
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 Shanghai
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Founder | Employees | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 70mai Smart mirrors & dashcams for automobiles | — | — | — | 170 | Node.jsElement UIAmazon ALB+20 | Top 500k | 8 patents Automotive video surveillance cameras with low-power recording and integrated mobile charging solutions. | — |
| 2 | China Measurement Provider of GNSS Navigation and Positioning Solutions | — | — | — | 1,734 | Node.jsElement UIBootstrap+11 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 3 | Cydiance Provider of tracking and supply chain management services | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Facialcloud Provider of AI-based face recognition technology services | — | — | Wu Yang CEO | 20 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | ImLockbox Provider of smart lock systems for home | — | — | Vincent Wang CEO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Jinshida Weining Software Technology Provider of insurance product development and financial management solutions | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Moxiang Technology Developer of smart security cameras for video surveillance | — | — | Fan Jinsong Founder | 50 | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | NVSMART Provider of bio-metric-based bike chain locks | — | — | Jack Zhao Co-Founder | — | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Shanghai
#1
Public · Pudong, Shanghai · founded 2016 · 916 employees$500Mraised▾
Developer of AI-based chips for machine vision tasks. It provides users with company that develops artificial intelligence-based visual perception technology and application, focusing on embedded images and computer vision. Its product portfolio includes light control/ISP image processing, ADAS/autonomous driving perception, face recognition, and AI chips.
- Aug 2022Series C—
- Sep 2021Series C—
- Apr 2021Series C$231M
- Apr 2019Series B$100M
#2
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2016 · 11 employees$83.9Mraised▾
Provides drone data management solutions. It offers drone data acquisition flight services and a cloud-based data analysis and viewing software solution. It also offers IT consulting and data migration services to enterprise clients. It also provides drone-based wind turbine inspection and monitoring solutions.
- Mar 2021Series A$30.9M
- Jan 2020Series A$10M
- Aug 2019Series A$22M
- Aug 2018Series A$11M
#3
Series A · Xuhui, Shanghai · founded 2017$10.8Mraised▾
Provider of intelligent product recognition systems for offline retailers. Its IoT platform can identify brands, sub-brands, and product SKUs. It can be integrated with smart freezers, smart shelves, and other retail systems. It offers intelligently product check, and automatically generate in-store audit reports through the photo upload operation. The system supports SKU recognition, price tag recognition, price recognition, etc.
- Sep 2021Series A$10.8M
- 2019Seed—
- Apr 2018Angel—
#4
Deadpooled · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2018 · 24 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of AI and computer vision-based video analysis systems. It develops low-power and high-performance edge computing-based products, such as smart camera modules, multiple sensor fusion systems, LiDARs, AI-based chips, and ultrasonic radars. Its features include surface defect and target detection, palletizing robot solutions, 3D facial recognition, and video-based classification, identification, measurement, and perception. It has applications in industrial automation, production line and distribution robots, appearance inspection, service robots, drones, and autonomous driving.
- Jun 2021Seed$1.5M
#5
Series C · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2009 · 230 employees$16.1Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-based video surveillance network solutions for shopping malls. Its features include passenger flow analysis, motion detection systems, storage, and support on all platforms. It caters to the logistics industry, education, and government.
- Dec 2018Series C—
- Jan 2018Series C$12.1M
- 2015Series B—
- 2013Series A$4M
#6
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2015 · 91 employees$90Mraised▾
Developer of SaaS and cloud-based cameras and drones. It develops different types of cameras such as action, home and dash camera for consumers. It also makes drones.
- Aug 2016Series A$90M
#7
Series A · Putuo, Shanghai · founded 2010$2.5Mraised▾
K-Vision is a manufacturer in the security and surveillance field.It keeps technology innovation and implementation in embedded structure applications, audio/video, encoding/decoding arithmetic, large-scale storage, intelligent video retrieval and network protocol research. Products are widely used in facilities ranging from schools, casinos, and banks to power stations, highway infrastructures, and government agency buildings.
- Sep 2014Venture Debt$500K
- Dec 2013Venture Debt$500K
- Jul 2013Venture Debt$500K
- Aug 2012Series A$1M
#8
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2016$5.8Mraised▾
Developer of artificial intelligence systems for automated security baggage screening. These systems utilize deep learning algorithms to analyze X-ray imagery for the detection of prohibited items. The technology identifies various objects including weapons and hazardous liquids by processing visual data in real time. Automated sorting functions assist personnel in managing baggage flow and verifying contents. The software integrates with existing scanning hardware to facilitate monitoring and tracking of items during the inspection process.
- Jun 2019Series A$5.8M
#9
Series B · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2010 · 100 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Palmap is principally engaged in providing indoor map data, covering shopping and entertainment centers, restaurants, hospitals and schools. The company has collected the indoor map data of more than 12,000 buildings, such as shopping mall, supermarket, subway, train stations, in more than 300 cities countrywide. Palmap+ now provides data service to Internet companies, such as Baidu Map, Sina, Souhu and Tencent, as well as mobile app startups.
- Sep 2013Series B$1.9M
#10
Series A · Xuhui, Shanghai · founded 2018 · 100 employees—raised▾
Provider of an IoT and cloud-based industrial security solution. It uses AI technology to offer safety actionable automation solutions at workspaces. It has the capability to collect data for providing actionable insights and motivates industrial employees to follow behavioral & organizational methods for their safety.
- Jun 2022Series A—
#11
Seed · Pudong, Shanghai · founded 2017 · 30 employees—raised▾
Surexing provides AI-enabled financial data monitoring solutions. It provides financial institutions with corporate financial data fraud and risk analysis solutions. It performs internal auditing sessions on the data. It uses machine learning for transitioning passive supervision to active supervision.
- Apr 2020Seed—
#12
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2011—raised▾
Juhong Optoelectronics Technology is a manufacturer of an access control system. The company offers a wide range of iris authentication-based biometric products. The product offered by the company leverages artificial technology to provides access control and attendance management solution.
- Aug 2019Series A—
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How research on Cybersecurity in Shanghai is moving
A read on the academic research around Cybersecurity in Shanghai — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 321 papers.
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University83
- Shanghai Electric62
- Shanghai University of Electric Power19
- Shanghai University17
- University of Shanghai for Science and Technology16
- Intrusion detection system4→22
- Key (lock)1→13
- Anomaly detection1→12
- Graph1→8
- Network security13→17
- Network security32→43
- Artificial neural network1→9
- Data mining7→14
- Information security1→6
- Intrusion detection system10→15
- Information security2→3
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