Coram AI has raised $35 million to turn security cameras already bolted to walls into something more like a autonomous detective.
The Series B is co-led by new investor Ansa Capital and Battery Ventures, joined by UP Partners, 8VC and Mosaic Ventures. This brings the San Francisco company’s total funding to $66 million.
Coram’s argument is that physical security is stuck in the past. When something goes wrong, staff spend hours reviewing images, access logs and alarms to piece together what happened.
His answer is software he calls “Deep Dive,” an artificial intelligence agent queried in plain language. Searches months of video, input logs and visitor data across hundreds of cameras and sites and then returns a report. Work that took hours, the company says, now takes minutes.
Founded four years ago by Ashesh Jain and Peter Ondruska, Coram now operates in more than 1,500 locations, from schools to factories.
Privacy argument, reality of surveillance
Coram relies heavily on privacy. Its boxes run AI models on local NVIDIA chips at the edge, it says, so sensitive videos never have to leave the building and into the cloud. It also works with any existing IP camera, avoiding costly removal and replacement.
But the same platform sells facial recognition, license plate reading, vehicle tracking detection and real gun detection, and is aimed at schools, churches and workplaces.
One client, a Dallas megachurch, sees more than 30,000 worshipers across eight campuses. A high school swapped out old cameras for real-time gun detection. Efficiency is real; so is the reach.
That compensation, purchased security with more monitoringis not new to AI security. But autonomous agents make it worse. A system that can investigate on its own, into every chamber and door, is also a system that is always observing and now draws its own conclusions.
The ‘operating system’ land grab
Coram is part of a wave of startups trying to become the ‘Operating system’ for a single industry by wrapping it with AI agents. Your bet is that each building will eventually run hundreds of agents in the background.
The money is chasing a real gap. “Physical security is one of the largest industries yet to be transformed by modern AI,” said Allan Jean-Baptiste of Ansa Capital, and incumbents are largely selling cameras and dashboards, not autonomy, even as companies invest record sums in AI elsewhere.
For now, the headline numbers—”10 times more effective,” “hundreds of agents per space”—are Coram’s projections, not tests. But with $66 million in the bank and 1,500 active sites, you have the clue to test whether the building of the future really takes care of itself.
