Brivo, Eagle Eye Merge to Forge AI-Powered Cloud Security Colossus

AUSTIN, TX – December 29, 2025 – In a landmark move set to reshape the physical security industry, cloud access control leader Brivo and cloud AI video surveillance pioneer Eagle Eye Networks have announced their merger. The combined entity, which will operate under the Brivo name, is positioned to become the world's largest AI-native physical security company, offering a deeply integrated, single-vendor solution for enterprise safety and building management.

The new Brivo will be led by Dean Drako, the founder of Eagle Eye Networks and longtime Chairman of Brivo, who will serve as Chief Executive Officer. Brivo's founder, Steve Van Till, will assume the role of President. This strategic consolidation culminates a decade of shared ownership and close collaboration, formalizing a long-held vision to fuse best-in-class access control and video surveillance into a unified, intelligent platform.

A New Behemoth in Cloud Security

The merger creates a formidable force in the rapidly expanding cloud security market. The company's claim to be the industry's largest AI cloud-native provider is substantiated by the immense scale of its constituent parts. Prior to the merger, Brivo already secured over 1 billion square feet of property across 80 countries, with a user base exceeding 23 million. Meanwhile, Eagle Eye Networks has been a perennial fixture on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list, recognized for its explosive growth in the cloud video sector.

This union was foreshadowed by a significant $192 million equity investment in May 2023 from SECOM Co., Ltd., a global security giant. The capital injection, split between the two companies, was explicitly intended to accelerate the development of advanced AI technologies, laying the financial and technological groundwork for this integration. The merger formalizes this synergy, creating a single entity with dual headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, and Austin, Texas, poised to leverage its combined strengths.

The strategic alignment, which began with Drako's acquisition of Brivo for $50 million in 2015, was built on the premise that the future of physical security lay not in siloed systems but in a holistic, data-driven ecosystem. This merger is the ultimate realization of that vision, creating a one-stop-shop for organizations seeking to modernize their security infrastructure.

Unifying the Security Stack

At the heart of the new Brivo's strategy is the Brivo Security Suite, a comprehensive platform designed to unify AI, access control, video intelligence, visitor management, and intrusion detection. For years, facilities and security managers have grappled with the complexity of managing disparate systems from multiple vendors, each with its own interface, support channel, and maintenance schedule. The merger directly addresses this pain point.

By offering a single, cohesive solution, the company aims to deliver significant operational efficiencies. A unified platform provides security teams with superior situational awareness, allowing them to correlate events—such as a door-forced-open alert from the access control system with immediate video verification from an associated camera—all within one interface. This integration streamlines workflows, reduces training requirements, and enables faster, more accurate incident response.

Crucially, the merged company has reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining an open platform. While the Brivo Security Suite will offer a tightly integrated first-party experience, its architecture is designed to support third-party video and access control solutions. This is a critical advantage for resellers and customers with existing investments in other technologies. It provides flexibility and prevents vendor lock-in, allowing security integrators to design hybrid solutions tailored to specific client needs. This open approach has been a hallmark of both companies and is expected to be a key competitive differentiator going forward.

AI as the Core Differentiator

The true power of the merger lies in the fusion of advanced Artificial Intelligence capabilities. The new Brivo is set to deliver a security platform where data from every sensor and endpoint is analyzed by sophisticated AI models, transforming reactive security postures into proactive, predictive ones.

Eagle Eye Networks brings a mature and powerful suite of AI-driven video analytics to the table. Its capabilities include real-time alerts for loitering, line crossing, and intrusion, as well as advanced License Plate Recognition (LPR). Its flagship AI feature, Smart Video Search, allows users to search for people, vehicles, and other objects across vast archives of footage using simple, natural language queries. This technology dramatically reduces the time and effort required for forensic investigations.

Brivo contributes its own AI innovations, including recently developed agentic mobile lockdown features and the unification of intrusion alarms with 24/7 professional monitoring. By combining these capabilities, the new platform can achieve a level of intelligence previously unattainable. For example, AI can analyze patterns in access data to predict potential security risks or use facial recognition to enable frictionless, highly secure entry while simultaneously detecting and flagging tailgating attempts.

The overarching goal is to enhance security while improving operational efficiency. AI algorithms can significantly reduce the burden of false alarms by intelligently differentiating between genuine threats and benign environmental events. For businesses, this translates into optimized staffing, lower operational costs, and a security system that provides actionable business intelligence beyond simple threat detection.

Reshaping the Competitive Landscape

This merger sends a clear signal to the physical security market and is expected to intensify competition among cloud-native providers like Verkada, Rhombus Systems, and Alarm.com. The industry has been steadily moving away from on-premise hardware and fragmented solutions towards consolidated, cloud-based platforms, a trend exemplified by companies like Genetec. The formation of the new Brivo accelerates this shift, creating a U.S.-based powerhouse with the scale, technology, and funding to dominate the market.

The value proposition for both customers and channel partners is compelling. For enterprise clients, it offers a simplified procurement and management experience: one vendor, one support team, and one integrated platform to secure their entire organization. For the vast network of resellers and security integrators, the merger promises a more efficient way to grow their business, backed by a powerful and flexible open platform.

With Dean Drako's history of disruptive innovation in technology and Steve Van Till's deep expertise in pioneering SaaS-based access control, the new leadership team embodies the merger's core strengths. As organizations worldwide continue to migrate their security infrastructure to the cloud, the newly unified Brivo is strongly positioned not just to compete, but to define the future of intelligent, integrated physical security.